You Get Me

Tyler (Taylor John Smith) is deeply in love with new girl Ali (Halston Sage). He's even willing to do yoga for her. It's the last week of the summer and they go to a friend's party. They encounter Ali's sleazy ex Chase from San Francisco. Tyler has a fight with Ali and leaves the party with unknown girl Holly (Bella Thorne). Tyler has a short drug filled sexual escapade. Afterward, he makes up with Ali but is shocked to find Holly attending their school.

This one hits all the expected tropes and I actually was hoping for a bunny boil. Tyler is a pathetic unappealing dumb character. The only good aspect is the casting of Sage and Thorne. Sage is a solid good girl and Thorne is perfect as hot crazy. I don't think Thorne can really play the innocent good girl at this point. Using Tyler as the point of view is not compelling. There is no rooting interest in him. He almost redeems himself confessing to Lydia at the hospital but stupid writing immediately takes it all back. He talks face to face with Ali and fails utterly to warn her against Holly. There are so many laughable moments in the third act. It's derivative and unappealing at first and then it devolves into a bad thriller. The actresses are good although the male lead is saddled with a bad role.

This was your standard simple obsession thriller film. You knew how things were going to end up and it was predictable. Besides the eye candy as major draws nothing else is alluring about this film. It might have done better if it was made about 30 or so years ago but today it falls short.

This is pretty mediocre and bad.

First the acting is regular at best.

Second the story is nothing revolutionary or anything.

And most important, this doesn't bring anything new and is full of all the typical clichés and movie tropes.

Unless you like obviously predictable movies don't watch this mediocre film

And why did I sit through it? I have been a user of IMDb for years but never bothered to sign in to write a review. This movie compelled me to do so, and not in a good way.

Actually, it may have been a good movie had it been made oh...30 or so years ago. But the plot has been done sooooooo many times now that every single second was predictable. The acting was bland (other than the young Asian woman who actually had a bit of a range other than 'smiling teenager', 'terrified teenager' or 'stalker teenager'). I have no idea whose idea it was to make this movie but it was a bad one. I was reminded immediately of 'Swim Fan' and going even further back, when Mark Whalberg was just past his Marky Mark phase and made 'Fear' with a young Reese Whitherspoon. Not to mention all of the zillions of Lifetime movies with the same plot, all of the excellently done Scream films, and even some elements of Beverly Hills 90210. Gah.

Don't waste your time.

PROS: Besides the movie being complete garbage it was marketed well and made out to be amazing. You can tell a movie is bad when the only pros are with the advertising and impressions of the movie. Although there were many things wrong with the film the way the movie appeared to be great which will get many people to watch it, which is good.

CONS: For starters the main guy character ticked me off so much. Myself being an actor makes me have such high expectations for other actors in movies. I could tell that the main male character had so much more to give, and he didn't give it. This made my blood boil because it's your job as an actor to give 110% of yourself to the film, but he probably only gave 60%. The other thing that can be said for YOU GET ME is how much of a failure the ending was. The entirety of the movie I was waiting and waiting for the end to grip me and captivate me like the rest of the film couldn't, but instead all I got was the most basic of resolutions. I'm not going to tell you what happens, but I will say is that it is like every other movie ever. To add on, everything was so all over the place. There was never a central viewpoint, which is what made the film loose direction. There was just so little credibility to the plot, which made for a poor poor movie.

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