I just saw this movie for the first time, and it made it into my top 20 worst movies ever. And honestly, of all the "psychological thrillers" I've seen, this may very well be the worst of them all.
About this movie, the concept is OK but it has one of the most ridicoulus and unbelievable stories I have ever witnessed in any movie of all time. It's also one of those movies where you try to ignore it but the movie just keeps shoving plot holes, inaccuracies, and bad dialogue in your face, until it's just shockingly bad.
The acting is also spotty, the characters are completely lifeless, there is literally almost no emotions portrayed here except overacted anger (very out of place, and sometimes even becomes comedy material, like the bathroom scene) or very bad crying woman scenes.
The main hero is good at literally everything, and he randomly throws some of those manly-man tantrums every once in a while like "I'm having a fucking bad day man!". Cool eh?… ok honestly the main guy is very annoying. Actually, the whole cast is kind of annoying and it's hard to sympathize with any one if them. And we never get to know anything really about their personalities. Despite the fact that, considering how the movie turns out, that would have been very interesting.
Overall the movie is very clumsily made, and feels very amateurish all the time. It's also very cheesy at times, and the acting surely doesn't help here. The standard "what do you want from us!?" scene is a good example of this, and it almost drove me to laugh out loud. Such things keeps this movie from ever becoming intense or suspenseful, and not even once did I care who the murderer was or about the (very bad) "twist".
It pretty much goes without saying that the ending was very poor and clumsy too, but I must point out that the "surprise" at the very end is so predictable that I really wonder what they were thinking there. Everyone must have seen that coming.
Overall, it felt like they didn't put much thought or effort into this at all, and just assumed the main audience of this would be complete idiots. Well, it seems they were right, judging by all the praise this gets.
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@moviep4nda all the things is happening in his head which creates nine characters and they needs to be eliminated one by one inside of his mind and most of them literally didn't make any sense in the end cos of the medicine they gave him in order to find out which one is the murderer and is the murderer personality inside of him gone, so everything thing you said doesn't even matter. The performance is quite good, the plot is intricating, it's not a ten, but it apparently doesn't deserve a three. If it is a 3 then all your life adding up together must be a 0.3
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VIPEP2I'm a huge fan of SF and AI based plots - I was really looking forward to seeing this but it was a frustrating disappointment. It has terrible horrible shamefully bad writing. Not a single original idea about AI and in fact they don't really deal with AI apart from robots basically being exactly like humans but nicer. No original futuristic sci-fi ideas either with a lot of the futuristic stuff not making any sense. For example the AIs speak to each other in English, no super fast data pours between them. They can't even speak remotely over cellular or whatever... they use walkie talkies lol. They had an old women robot that limped around though the robots do not age?!? I could have forgiven all of this in the 80s or from an adaptation of an Isaac Asinov novel but we're in 2023 and we've all watched the Matrix etc... Also it had very little action and the action sequences it did have were bad and boring with yellow lazer tracers zapping around in the near dark or fog. Visually it was ok and the score was decent but the poor writing completely ruined it for me. Half way through, I couldn't wait for it to end. You can't be a serious Sci-fi fan and think this is any good, it's just not possible... yes that's you good reviewers.
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You can't be a serious Sci-fi fan and think this is any good, it's just not possible... yes that's you good reviewers.
That gatekeeping at the end of your comment, yikes.
"I'm right, you're wrong", lol
