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.

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.

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.

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.

Bad dubbing, bad acting, bad photography, bad lighting, bad dialogue, and I'm only twenty minutes in. Looks like amateur actors didn't feel sure of themselves or the plot, which had a few holes. Police procedures, medical involvement and journalistic work stepped on each other's toes, and the cod portrayal of an "alternative personality" just grated. It looked like someone watched "Dexter" and thought they could do better. They didn't.