Simon

Bad acting. Picture and sound issues. Probably because of the low budget. Plot wasn't bad though. Watchable. I didn't stop half the way. Didn;t seem that I spended one and a half hour for nothing.

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.

I am a Brit watching a British Movie.

Ok...so imagine some college students who have been given a week to put a film together as part of their A Level drama. They get hold of a cheap camera which is sort of an upgrade from a standard video camera but have to use their phones for most of it. They don't have an editor so one of them talks their younger brother into "Giving it a shot", in exchange for being allowed to borrow their PS5.

Then they need a cast. No one is available so they have to do it themselves. There is an issue as they need adults too so they talk the head to physics which is close to retirement but is happy to "Give it a bash".

They realize that their acting skills have reached the level of a semi interested but half asleep sloth as they have wasted most of the year going to raves but it's all they have so they go for it anyway.

Ok, so they are ready to go but by the time they have organized all this, they only have 2 days left to make the film. Everyone has lost interest, including the brother who takes 30 minutes to edit as he is now fully engaged with the new PS5 game. Using some free download to edit, he quickly knocks it together.

And there you have it......Simon.... Enjoy.

I've seen better acting at a primary school nativity play !

Sadly not an unfamiliar storyline!

Not sure if the director was awol during filming but to to say this movie is utter rubbish is the best compliment I can think.of !

The actor who played Simon, was by far the worst of a very bad bunch !

The continuity wasn't brilliant in a couple of places.

All in all, what could have been good entertainment was totally destroyed by a tired story line, abysmal acting and an unpolished finish.

It was spiced up a tad by showing breasts but it made a cheap porn movie look like a block buster. Don't waste your time watching this, you will be disappointed!

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.