Giuseppe Lama

Meh… This movie was for me the classic example of a director who’s sadly become way too complacent in recent years. There were so many holes in the story and so much of the common sense needed in the plot was missing completely - even the sociopathic element was so shallow it felt like an afterthought. The cherry on the cake was that we had to endure a lot of dreadful ‘TikTok-style’ music by nepo-baby Saleka (M. Night Shyamalan‘s own daughter irl) that I can’t help but thinking this movie was a publicity stunt for her career (and a desperate attempt to engage younger audiences in trying to keep the director’s dying talent afloat).

We can all guess the meaning behind the movie, exploitation of women etc, etc, but this is not a movie, it’s a slow and painful watch where nothing happens. Not expecting a Hollywood style finale, but you shove an hour + of whispered voices on a telephone down our throats - and when there was no telephone involved, the only verbal exchanges between people were absolutely down to a bare minimum. Call me old fashioned but if I have to watch a miserable and very slow movie with no plot in a world where everyone is so vile, the least you can do is to entertain me by giving me (the viewer) some hope that the main character somehow wraps up the movie with a resolution of some sort. As we stand is very much: “young woman goes to work in a male dominated environment, feels the pressure and she doesn’t like it, THE END.” Terrible.