A.M.I.

It's an interesting story, get on a bus or walk into a coffee shop, and everyone has their heads buried in their phones, somewhat obsessional, this film tries to tap into that idea, and for some bits of the film it does. Let's be clear this isn't a horror, it lacks thrills or scares, it's pretty slow paced. It's well acted, although every single character is pretty loathsome, so there's nobody you can warm to, or empathize with, frankly you won't care less what happens to any of them. It filled a bored hour and a bit, I wouldn't watch it again, but the concept is a decent one. 5/10

Everyone in this movie is so stereotyped, the characters are forgettable. There was one second of the fluffiest cat I have ever seen. It was the best thing in the movie.

Sarah's whole character was laughable. Not the actress. The actress did great with what she had. However, it was like no one has ever met a female in their lives. The males were written by someone who hated jocks in high school. All the characters have no soul and you just instantly regret watching it. The writing is so bad "Dunk the junk" was mention in a real conversation in there...three times.

Two star. Would give it zero if it wasn't for creative concept and, of course, Hannah the cat. Best two seconds in the whole movie. Would pet IRL.

I liked the ending and few funny things typical for young people, except bit unreal and extreme. Makes us aware of our obsessions to phone and how they can or can not replace people. Few cool things in form of talk and revenge. Also liked that unlike in most other things that everything looked real (cat, stabbing, burning, blood). But everything else is so unexplained, unfinished, unclear, ignored, without any reason. Meaning bad story, has so much holes that makes us wonder the purpose of all the happenings. Maybe this horror is best suited for younger people or kids who believe in magic and do not ask questions. I liked that movie is about our current problems and technology, so makes it more interesting.

For a B movie I think this film is brightly lit, professionally shot, and moves at a fairly swift pace. The audio wasn't great, I had to turn my sound up to hear the dialogue clearly. The premise is timely, we are all increasingly dependent on our phones and AI is slowly taking over all of our lives. Ok, enough of the compliments, folks.

The dialogue is dumb and very thin. The lead actress, Debs Howard (Cassie) is an attractive woman but looks wayyyy too old to be in high school. Her performance is wooden and that's a problem because she is in virtually every scene and has to carry the movie. We don't get enough story on the her character to really care about her. We don't know learn enough about her illness, her relationship to her mother, her bond to her best friend and alleged boyfriend to really care about how things end up. I wound up cheering more for the creepy boyfriend, Liam, just because he was so over the top in his creepishness.

What we get is the usual revenge fantasy deaths of a bunch of unlikable people. I kept watching out of amusement. How dumb are things going to get? Answer, very dumb. If you are into the one-by-one killing off thing you might find this film entertaining. There are attempts to at humor in some of the death scenes.

The bottom line is that this film is not scary and not deep on any psychological level. It might have been better if they played things totally for laughs, like in the amusing last scene, but taken as a straight horror movie, bleh!

If by chance your phone ever starts telling you to kill people it's time to get a new phone.

Other than this being a time filler (a movie to watch when you've basically exhausted all the decent horrors on Netflix) I noticed something that bugged me. It wasn't the actors being WAY too old or the other stuff mentioned in reviews. I noticed that every time the video recorded by her 'friend' each time it was played was different to what was recorded first time. I'm a bit of a continuity freak and usually it's laughable but this just added to the overall shoddy feel of the movie, that's before you consider all the other plot holes etc. Just wondering if it's just me that noticed this little goof.

Would only recommend if you're a teenager or out of options and want a thriller and not a good one at that.