Theo Woods

This film starts brilliantly. It introduces an interesting character, interesting supporting characters, and starts to set up what looks like it will be an engaging plot about elitism, obsession and disillusionment. The twist that this plot then undertakes at the halfway mark is again, excellent, deepening our protagonist and making it look like the film is building to an exciting conclusion that was not initially expected. The final third of this film is then so out of the blue, jarring and distasteful that for me everything good up until this point was spoiled. What started as a well structured story of jealousy and obsession turned into a nonsensicle, self indulgent mess grasping at shock value. I can honestly recommend watching this film until 1:33, then pretending it stops there. If the film had stopped there, it would have been 5/5. So dissapointing to see it ruined.

The acting is excellent across the entire cast, the sets and filming locations all look great, and the overall plot is decent. The only major shortcoming of this film is certain moments in the supposedly "comedic" writing that come across as childish and cheap. A handful of jokes that land poorly, go on for considerably too long and do a large amount of damage to the films immersion and maturity.