Simon

Ok, so it might seem a bit harsh giving this 1 star, especially as I'm British watching a Brit movie, but I feel obliged to help people avoid wasting their life watching this. I'll start with the good points. The actual sorry line as written in the initial Netflix bio make it sound watchable. Now for the not so good. The acting is pretty poor, and I'm being as nice as possible here. The direction is abysmal, the camera angles and closeness to the actors is worse than shocking, and finally the sound is so in and out, did the sound guy have matchstick arms and could not cope with the weight of the boom mic ? Trust me, this is one to avoid. I'll try and finish on a positive note though, if they'd used decent actors, and decent director, with decent equipment, it might have been ok ish.

I watched it right to the end 😭 Please don't waste any time on this. Netflix owes me 85 minutes of my life back.

If it is a teenagers school project it is a good effort but I'm paying for some decent viewing and Netflix is taking the absolute piss.

The acting in this film is cringey, the storyline boring, there is no tension and the camera work is shockingly bad.

It's as though someone was allowed to submit their gcse coursework to Netflix. Avoid.

This film could've been a lot better. If the acting was a little better. Not all of it was though. The actors playing simon and sarah were not to bad and were passable, same could not be said for everybody else. I dont like the fact a sequal is to made but if its better than this ill still watch it. There were also many cuts in weird places that made the transitions between scenes bad.

The movie was all but urban, very low quality and clearly made on low budget. Everything seemed to just happen so quickly yet so slowly (get what I mean?). It had an unusually dull mood and was quite predictable at times.

The 'horrific' moments seemed rather unconvincing and quite childish. Very simplistic. It doesn't get the viewer to fully understand and (perhaps) sympathize with the killer's actions.

It wasn't all bad though. In fact, overall the ideas were pretty good. I especially saw the ending quite interesting but still felt like it was one of those endings in which the director of the movie feels he/she failed viewers throughout the movie and decides to make up for it in the end.

It had a great environment and gave a feel of the regular neighborhood in England. However, ask me how I found this movie on a usual day, and the quickest answer I'd give you would probably come with the 'S' word.