Seriously - HOW did this get made?!
Netflix obviously have a habit of churning out pulpy thrillers, and I've watched (or at least tried to watch) almost all of them, and I can safely say, of all of them, hands down - this has the WORST dialogue and performances that border on the hysterical. It's hard to blame the actors for that, they're making the best of a VERY bad screenplay - and presumably, incompetent performative direction.
Visually it's decent. That was obviously the priority for the filmmaker. The only priority. It's the only thing that makes sense.
I really can't fathom how this got made. Who's this guy sleeping with at Netflix to get this off the ground ahead of so many blacklist scripts? They must be pretty high up or have a lot to hide because WOW. Rubbish.
Only given 2 rather than 1 because I did honestly laugh more than once in the opening ten minutes at the hackneyed dialogue.
Netflix obviously have a habit of churning out pulpy thrillers, and I've watched (or at least tried to watch) almost all of them, and I can safely say, of all of them, hands down - this has the WORST dialogue and performances that border on the hysterical. It's hard to blame the actors for that, they're making the best of a VERY bad screenplay - and presumably, incompetent performative direction.
Visually it's decent. That was obviously the priority for the filmmaker. The only priority. It's the only thing that makes sense.
I really can't fathom how this got made. Who's this guy sleeping with at Netflix to get this off the ground ahead of so many blacklist scripts? They must be pretty high up or have a lot to hide because WOW. Rubbish.
Only given 2 rather than 1 because I did honestly laugh more than once in the opening ten minutes at the hackneyed dialogue.