This film is the cinematic equivalent of someone saying “wait for it” and I did. I waited, and waited, all the way until the end for something better. A better twist, a better plot, hell, even the tired cliché “it was all a dream” would’ve been more satisfying. Instead, the twist comes way too early, fizzles out, and honestly wasn’t half as brilliant as people hype it up to be. I went in with high expectations, and walked out wondering if I’d watched the same movie everyone else praised. The tone? All over the place. Like the film couldn’t decide if it wanted to be a psychological thriller or a soap opera. And because of that, it ends up being neither. Instead of feeling clever or unsettling, it just irritated me. It’s like being tricked into a magic show where the magician forgets the final trick and just shrugs. And the characters? Written with all the depth of wet cardboard. I couldn’t connect, I couldn’t care. The main character in particular feels less like a person and more like a device to drag the story along. The cinematography didn’t help either flat, uninspired, as if the film was too busy patting itself on the back for its “big ideas” to bother looking good.
The whole thing felt like wasted potential.
This film is the cinematic equivalent of someone saying “wait for it” and I did. I waited, and waited, all the way until the end for something better. A better twist, a better plot, hell, even the tired cliché “it was all a dream” would’ve been more satisfying. Instead, the twist comes way too early, fizzles out, and honestly wasn’t half as brilliant as people hype it up to be. I went in with high expectations, and walked out wondering if I’d watched the same movie everyone else praised. The tone? All over the place. Like the film couldn’t decide if it wanted to be a psychological thriller or a soap opera. And because of that, it ends up being neither. Instead of feeling clever or unsettling, it just irritated me. It’s like being tricked into a magic show where the magician forgets the final trick and just shrugs. And the characters? Written with all the depth of wet cardboard. I couldn’t connect, I couldn’t care. The main character in particular feels less like a person and more like a device to drag the story along. The cinematography didn’t help either flat, uninspired, as if the film was too busy patting itself on the back for its “big ideas” to bother looking good.
The whole thing felt like wasted potential.
