The Complex: Lockdown

I was excited to watch this movie in the beginning, during COVID what better thriller could there be? Well let me tell you... ANYTHING and EVERYTHING is better than this movie. Within the first 20 minutes of the film I could already tell that we were going to get a horrible performance from main actress Michelle Mylett. I wholeheartedly believe that movies like this are exactly what is wrong with filmmaking in today's world. The job of an actress is to emote Ms. Mylett. If you can honestly watch this movie and say that Michelle Mylett isn't a robot then you have a much greater imagination than I do. I really wish that I had stopped watching this movie and left to get a root canal instead it would've been a lot more enjoyable. I gave the film two stars out of 10. The film gets 10 stars because I enjoy the genre of choice and -8 stars for the god awful performance from the dead fish main actress Michelle Mylett. Do the world a favor Michelle quit being an actor and be a model instead, after all you already have the dead expressionless face nailed down to a T.

You will laugh while watching this film, but it's not because of jokes. Simply terrible!

Right off the bat the acting was horrible. Super cheesy made-for-tv acting that maybe teenagers are into? The whole plot felt really off and made no sense. As soon as the lab went into "lockdown" (obviously due to a leak of a biohazard) the main actress/actor started acting like nothing was wrong when someone just attacked them. While the "nanobots" were spreading and killing an intern and their coworker was just lying there dead, the main actors were smiling and flirting with each other like nothing was happening. What?! That's when my eyes started rolling. This was the first 20 minutes.

None of the actors were doing or saying what people would be doing in real life. That's bad writing.

So don't waste your time.

If you're a fan of games, check this out, the complex offered a multitude of options for game play, I played them all. excited to see the movie and what choices it makes. As a movie....dang, horrible choice.

An 80 minute commercial for a video game, but still a competent movie. No more than competent, though. It's not original, the cast would be more at home in a low budget Canadian sci-fi, the plot is bland and slow, and the whole thing seems cheap.