This fucking moron belongs in a Paranormal Activity movie. Seriously, who the fuck leaves their laptop open 24/7 and takes it into the bathroom to play music while you bathe? This mother fucker has a phone (that apparently makes noises all the time that she never notices), so why not use that? I love Ashley Benson, so making the premise of spying on her unfathomably boring is a true accomplishment. Easy the biggest issue is the terrible script, with its unnatural dialog and stilted lines, but the story is total bullshit, so what does it even matter? All of the praise for this movie is the exact same fuckery we saw with Megan is Missing, where every single positive review is some form of "Stuff like this actually happens" or about how "important" the message is, as if that makes it a good movie. By this logic, we need to go back and give Sia's Music and James Nguyen's Birdemic movies all the fucking Oscar's. Ratter being a movie about events that could theoretically happen does not make it a good movie and the fact that these things happen in real life does not make this movie scary. You don't get to say this movie is scary because being stalked is scary; this does means fuck all to the quality of the movie. It's little more than poorly shot clips of Benson talking on the phone, dancing, or talking to her friends, which we see via her laptop, cellphone, a razor with a camera hidden in it (I think? They didn't really do anything with it, which is dumb as fuck because we always see it on the rim of her tub when we get her laptop's POV when she brings it into the bathroom. I thought for sure this is would be how we got our exploitative nudity scenes), and what has to be either hidden cameras that got snuck in or shots that no one ever bothered to give a reason for. The stalker angle is so poorly written that if you take out ten minutes of footage, we'd just have a shitty vlog. I want to say the acting sucks, but I think that awful script kind of limits how good any performance could be. This movie is bad, inexcusably bad. It's so illogical and makes no logistical sense. There isn't anything here worth seeing unless seeing Benson in her bra once makes your whole day. I want to say that this has to be wish fulfillment for the director, but for a movie about someone watching a hot young woman all day everyday, we don't see anything more sexual than you could have seen in a Sear's ad. Instead, I have to assume that this was made or funded by some old person who doesn't understand technology, but watched a Dateline episode or 60 Minutes segment (or, let's be honest, read an "article" they saw on FaceBook) about a hacked webcam and planed this as a PSA. I saw that this is essentially a bloated version of a short the director did (which starts off with "based on a true story" and ends with one line about a case where some dude was arrested for "hacking" a girl's webcam, which is a bold statement considering that happens in the first 5% of the movie and escalates for beyond the scope of the real life case super fast), and there is nothing that this movie (which is a short movie according to the runtime, but feels easily three times as long when you're watching it) does better than the short. At no point does any of the movie feel real and seeing reviews talk about how realistic it is has me genuinely concerned for our future. Based on the casting of Benson, I had assumed this movie was for the same audience as Pretty Little Liars, but in reality I think the real audience is elderly parents and kids too young to know what FaceBook is. I'll watch Benson in anything (I will always have a huge crush on Hanna Marin), but she needs a better agent because between this and Private Property, she's been anchoring some fucking terrible movies.
This fucking moron belongs in a Paranormal Activity movie. Seriously, who the fuck leaves their laptop open 24/7 and takes it into the bathroom to play music while you bathe? This mother fucker has a phone (that apparently makes noises all the time that she never notices), so why not use that? I love Ashley Benson, so making the premise of spying on her unfathomably boring is a true accomplishment. Easy the biggest issue is the terrible script, with its unnatural dialog and stilted lines, but the story is total bullshit, so what does it even matter? All of the praise for this movie is the exact same fuckery we saw with Megan is Missing, where every single positive review is some form of "Stuff like this actually happens" or about how "important" the message is, as if that makes it a good movie. By this logic, we need to go back and give Sia's Music and James Nguyen's Birdemic movies all the fucking Oscar's. Ratter being a movie about events that could theoretically happen does not make it a good movie and the fact that these things happen in real life does not make this movie scary. You don't get to say this movie is scary because being stalked is scary; this does means fuck all to the quality of the movie. It's little more than poorly shot clips of Benson talking on the phone, dancing, or talking to her friends, which we see via her laptop, cellphone, a razor with a camera hidden in it (I think? They didn't really do anything with it, which is dumb as fuck because we always see it on the rim of her tub when we get her laptop's POV when she brings it into the bathroom. I thought for sure this is would be how we got our exploitative nudity scenes), and what has to be either hidden cameras that got snuck in or shots that no one ever bothered to give a reason for. The stalker angle is so poorly written that if you take out ten minutes of footage, we'd just have a shitty vlog. I want to say the acting sucks, but I think that awful script kind of limits how good any performance could be. This movie is bad, inexcusably bad. It's so illogical and makes no logistical sense. There isn't anything here worth seeing unless seeing Benson in her bra once makes your whole day. I want to say that this has to be wish fulfillment for the director, but for a movie about someone watching a hot young woman all day everyday, we don't see anything more sexual than you could have seen in a Sear's ad. Instead, I have to assume that this was made or funded by some old person who doesn't understand technology, but watched a Dateline episode or 60 Minutes segment (or, let's be honest, read an "article" they saw on FaceBook) about a hacked webcam and planed this as a PSA. I saw that this is essentially a bloated version of a short the director did (which starts off with "based on a true story" and ends with one line about a case where some dude was arrested for "hacking" a girl's webcam, which is a bold statement considering that happens in the first 5% of the movie and escalates for beyond the scope of the real life case super fast), and there is nothing that this movie (which is a short movie according to the runtime, but feels easily three times as long when you're watching it) does better than the short. At no point does any of the movie feel real and seeing reviews talk about how realistic it is has me genuinely concerned for our future. Based on the casting of Benson, I had assumed this movie was for the same audience as Pretty Little Liars, but in reality I think the real audience is elderly parents and kids too young to know what FaceBook is. I'll watch Benson in anything (I will always have a huge crush on Hanna Marin), but she needs a better agent because between this and Private Property, she's been anchoring some fucking terrible movies.
