5150

I will give this movie a 4, and the only reason behind that is because the acting was actually very good and the story behind it could have been good but was not well executed. The ending leaves much to be desired. Seriously, do not waste you're time watching it.

This film is NOT worth wasting time over.

The three main actresses are decent enough at acting (pregnant woman, not so much) but the "actress" playing Cami is a very poor actor. There are some parts where she may as well be reading from a sheet of paper - it's actually possible to tell that she's misunderstood some of the punctuation in her lines by how she says them. There are some cringe-worthy moments when she plays angry, high or crazy.

The plot is simple and relatively uninteresting with highly unlikable characters. However, these characters didn't really need to be likable or fleshed-out, since the plot doesn't really go anywhere and the ending is neither climactic nor anti-climactic, it just kind of goes nowhere.

The multitude of other reviews giving 9/10 and 10/10 are interestingly all written around the same time (around 18th July 2017) and each reviewer created an account just to review this film. Clearly fake reviews. I wish IMDb would have someone check the reviews and delete these blatantly obvious fake reviews.

If you like drama/ thriller where the psychotic is hidden as sanity this is your movie, because 5150 blurs the line between the two. The 911 calls put my nerves on high alert, and Cami gave me flashbacks from when I worked on a psych-unit at a hospital in Colorado. The ending had me speaking in tongues if you know what that means or to put it another way, it has a WTF ending.

Just completely sick of how movies and the media in general portray people who struggle with mental illness and substance abuse. It's dishonest, stigmatizing, and unnecessary. No schizophrenic acts like that. Psychopaths don't generally act like that either. Addicts very rarely act like that, and most of the time when they do, it's because they were like that long before addiction became a factor. The acting was actually pretty good, talented cast here. Just can't take the actual movie seriously when they so arbitrarily slander troubled people in substitution of creativity and story development.

4.5 stars.

5150 is effectively gory beyond most B productions films of this genre. It's unsettling from the beginning and tension is taut until the final scene. I expected it to be supernatural horror or a thrilling slash-fest after reading the synopsis. This film is neither of those. It's a relatively gritty crime-thriller with tension remaining taut up until the final scene. That's certainly applaudible, but with a short runtime it wasn't a major feat. Some care was put into conveying a back story for each of our main characters creating a nice crescendo for us to ride until the end of the film. By the end, we see the characters in a new, and very different light. Is some ways the film was predictable, formulaic. When the landlord character is introduced, I knew where PART of the plot was headed but I still unaware I was watching a crime-thriller until later. Overall, the writing is still fairly good with believable script that simply lacks style at times. I would recommend this one to friends with express interest in the genre who are having difficulty finding something "new" to watch.