Intriguing photography and aptly composed soundtrack aside, I can't help but think that this movie's missing a good chunk of its plot.
Sure, we get that Jack and other husbands wanted their wives to be "happy", and we even know why some of those women (like Bunny) who were in the know chose to stay in the simulation, but... Why did Frank set all of this up? What was his end goal? Plus that part where his wife says that she was gonna take matters in her own hands led pretty much to nowhere. And what about the mechanics of this whole operation? How did it even work, exactly, and how was it even sustainable in the long term? And how is it that Alice escaping it would bring everything down? She doesn't know where everyone's body is in real life...
I would conclude that, after a drawn out build up of tension and mystery, the reveal felt lacking and unoriginal, just like in the "Watcher". If you want to delve into themes such as societal gender roles and male control over women, I'd suggest watching the new "Men" horror flick, a much more successful attempt at meaningful debate in this respect.
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@katrin-kaspersson It's pretty explicit. No they did not "want their wives to be happy". They wanted their own little perfect dreamworld where their lobotomized wives are basically their slaves and sex dolls. It's also explicitly said that Bunny is the only wife that knows.
Alice explicitly said it. He stole her life. He was a loser while she had a successful career. He could not take it, started listening to Frank, and in the end took her forcibly in his fantasy world where he is the main character and she is just here to serve him.
It would bring everything down because keeping people captive and drugged against their will is a crime and as soon as she can reveal what happened the whole organization will be investigated and they're all going to jail. Also when Jack is interviewed for the project the questions are "desired wife" and "preexisting relationship" implying that some of the wives are actually not in a relationship with their "husbands" before being put into the system. So you can add kidnapping to it.
Why did Frank do this ? He's a cult leader. He built his own world where he has all the power. Also the husbands are paying him a ton of (real world) money for that.
Better action movie than Endgame. Fite me.
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@triseult you spell "fite" like this, "fight." I win on the basis of your poor spelling.
