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Title: Complete Unknown (2016)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Erin Darke | ... | Holly | |
| Rachel Weisz | ... | Alice Manning | |
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Hansel Tan | ... | Magician (as Hansel S. Tan) |
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FaTye | ... | Mike (as Gary F. Francis Jr.) |
| Zach Appelman | ... | Malcolm | |
| Michael Shannon | ... | Tom | |
| Michael Chernus | ... | Clyde | |
| Azita Ghanizada | ... | Ramina | |
| Omar Metwally | ... | Farshad | |
| Frank De Julio | ... | Mark | |
| Condola Rashad | ... | Sharon | |
| Chris Lowell | ... | Brad | |
| Tessa Albertson | ... | Tilda | |
| Kelly AuCoin | ... | Dave | |
| Kathy Bates | ... | Nina | |
This shape-shifting tale of the perils and pleasures of self-reinvention begins at a dinner party, when Tom's (Michael Shannon) co-worker arrives with an intriguing date named Alice (Rachel Weisz). Tom is convinced he knows her, but she refuses to acknowledge their history. And when Alice makes a hasty exit, Tom sets off after her. What follows is an all-night odyssey shared by two people, one needing to change his life, the other questioning how to stop changing. Written by Amazon Studios
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Despite its intriguing premise, this film never really makes it. The acting, given the talent brought into it, is excellent, but the script provides nothing good for an audience to take hold of. It doesn't help that the first five minutes are so badly written/edited, you'll have no idea what's going on. The characters are intolerable people. Any other people would have said no to the invite to Tom's birthday party. They're not hateful or bad people, but they're either spineless, pretentious, or selfish, all to a degree that is utterly unlikable. Furthermore, the plot consists of mostly flat dialogue. The few moments when it feels like some real conflict is going to build, it fizzles out before it goes anywhere meaningful. Rachel Weisz does her best with the material, but by the tenth or fifteenth painfully obvious lie, it's infuriating that people believe her and that the people who know she's lying are so willing to shrug it off and continue interacting with her.