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It's not even that this movie is predictable, it never tries not to be.

The story has only one way to go and no misdirects or cover ups are even attempted. Without the style necessary for such a straightforward tale to be worthwhile.

So you get a prolonged almost slapstick action resolvement of the plot which cannot achieve neither suspense nor excitement.

While the photography of the movie is great, and acting too, atmosphere is rarely achieved because the script is naive. Both in its arc as in the building materials of the story.

It's advertised as if its a psychological thriller but the characters act dumb as if they are from a dated slasher horror.

This could've been great if not for the common themes we might expect from Netflix.

A movie that truly builds on the tension and the confusion then adds several scenes that are completely out of touch and unjustified in the sense of what we know about the characters.

The director relied on really loud pop music to give excitement and enthusiasm to the start of the movie. But that could've been overlooked, even though that is a well from which this studio takes on a bit too excessively.

Then, by the end of it, the director sprinkled some good old fashioned netflixsms that everyone can recognize by now.

Also, the one's character big speech is written on a level of a mid-schooler too lazy to even use AI for his homework.

But this one is on me, why do I even watch anything this company makes. They just ruin good IP.

A cool premise, great world-building, manages to have memorable characters and all of that with a quite short runtime.

Rides the line between wildly insane and still somewhat believable for one to care about the protagonist.

Also manages to squeeze in a powerful enough and relatable enough theme in the end.

I'm quite surprised this isn't at least a cult favourite.

The B or even C storyline is a bit predictable, but this movie isn't trying to shyamalan anyone anyways. Alba's character could've been developed a bit more.

The music is present and builds the tension well without taking centre stage.