Calm Before

I like a good slow burn thriller. I hate a glacially paced, poorly directed, sloppily written, amateurishly filmed mess. This one checks all those boxes. Add in a few pointless characters and silly subplots and you have the makings for a real stinker. Three out of ten is generous and is ONLY awarded for a decent performance from the female lead.

This movie was really hard to connect to. It just seemed boring and pointless. 2/10.

This movie was extremely disappointing.

Poor plot and character development Poor direction

It tricked me into thinking it would be good. I ended up confused at what was going on. I was extremely annoyed by the main character. I felt like the movie was based on her not opening a folder. I just wanted to scream, "Open the damn folder!". I actually did scream that. When she opened it nothing was really explained that wasn't obvious. Furthermore the summary was pretty deceiving too.

The story has been done plenty of times. The way it was presented on screen was not very strong or cohesive. I think a script rewrite and a tweak in direction could have saved this film.

I've been in the film industry for 19 years. I've judged a lot of films for festivals and had a film festival and I still have a virtual festival. So I don't like giving bad reviews, but unfortunately this was not a well made film. The filmmaker tried to make a film crossing to many genres and it didn't work. Was it a horror, drama, psychological thriller, infidelity, woman scorned? What was it? This was not done well. Hopefully the filmmaker learned some valuable lessons regarding genre and audience. Making a film for everyone means you've made a film for no one. So good luck watching this film.

This movie started our suspenseful and interesting. As it went on, it unfortunately started to feel very drawn-out and a little bit all over the place. Some people are commenting that the movie didn't make sense - I think it did, but there were too many attempts at cliffhangers and twists and turns that it just lost my interest at some point. I stuck it out until the end but ended up feeling disappointed.