Tyson C

Hopeless, but entertaining and interesting to consider. Makes you think about modern society and the potential incoming crises. I'm giving it five stars to balance out all the bots' one star reviews. Really I'd give it four. NO this is not generated by AI or ChatGPT (like me saying that proves anything, but still, not AI generated I promise). First of all, I'll give all of the many reviewers that are clearly bots repeating the same thing over an over zero stars because who the hell is programming all these things to leave such terrible reviews? Did someone really hate this movie that much to program all that? What the hell is happening in this review section?! Anyways, I think it's rather appropriate, not because I agree with all the bots saying that this movie deserves zero stars, but because (some spoilers ahead as well about the themes) it goes right along with the first stage of getting a country to collapse into civil war as mentioned in the movie, create isolation, and part of that is done through misinformation. Example of misinformation: creating a bunch of bots to rate this movie one star on google reviews to smother the actual reviews. Reminds me of them using the TESLAs/self-driving cars to block all the roads/highways, these stupid bots are blocking the actual true reviews of this movie. That being said, this movie basically delves into a certain strategy of war that a country or countries could perform on the U.S., and it's interesting to see this possibility play out amongst all these different personalities and within Esmail's prediction (obviously with some dramatization for entertainment sake). Esmail has a directing style that makes everything seem real and modern, emphasizing some of the modern issues that do plague us and that we do think about. I know the bots say the deer scenes don't make sense but it explains in the movie that it's the animals intuition that they know something bad's about to happen. They said some more, but I'm not interested in defending against what they said. As for the issues you find, it's probably because you're not looking at the bigger picture of the metaphor that is trying to be made about that surreality of the times we live in and how we're desensitized by the media or hyper-dependent on it or something else. I know Esmail, and he doesn't add in random elements to his writing for no reason. I love all of Esmail's work. Please check out Mr. Robot as well, my favorite show personally.