Dacia Hayslip

I knew I'd have an issue with this movie as soon as Angela put her headphones on over her hair - no one does that except in movies. This is part of her job - she'd wear the headphones so they actually worked like headphones, no? Second tell that this was going to suck: the spin cycle scene - so she's post-COVIDepressed and experiencing some element of late-era Millenial PTSD after the COVID wars (those childhood years of participation trophies and guilty parents clearly did not prepare them for the lameness but ultimately not as bad as, IDK, a WORLD WAR, great depression, Vietnam War, that COVID brought). But she is determined to get the workout in? What in the hell-no-that's-not-what-would-be-happening? Angela is entirely unlikeable - the flirty (or whatever that is) texting with the neighbor and inability to leave the house made for a cringy sex scene - screwing someone who is mentally unstable is NOT HOT. She's pretty much an aloof B at the beginning of the film, and what was the point of the mom call? "Hey I texted the guy about the egg truck but didn't actually meet him...but now I'm exasperated with you because you're trying to help me...again! BYE MOM - you're a bad parent!" Did we fail to get past the angsty teen years? What is happening here? Dentist scene, again with the late-era Millenial - she talks down to the guy about an RX, bullies her way into getting it: "no one gets me like I get me - just do what I want you to do!!". I'm surprised she didn't have a tantrum when she hung up. The therapist: again with the condescension toward older people, this time someone she pays to help her. And the huge issue is a snuff film/murder? Except KIMI caught it so it's unique? And at this point are we supposed to care about crying Angela and her OCD, bad temperament, rudeness, and self-absorption? Did she never take that class in high school about the dangers of online exposure? Or, for that matter, any kind of history class. Are we supposed to be on her side when she is again exasperated because yet another older character won't take care of the issues she won't or can't deal with? Instead of the angsty eye-rolling and annoyance with an already suspect and bad Ms. Chawdry, perhaps she should've just called the FBI from home on this as soon as Chowdry said "we should". It must be hard when you don't get a trophy for everything. The "brutal scene" with the "thugs" was yes - Home Alone: Late-Era Millenial Rampage Victim. Whatever skills her father taught her with his construction knowledge (must've been immense since she suggests later he wasn't around long), the best was how to use a compressed nail gun without a compressor. The level shot at 15 feet away was especially impressive, and those nails must've been massive. Also wondering if the same people who wrote the terrible end to Game of Thrones also wrote the terrible end to this film. Two stars: one for Rita Wilson, another for costuming. One star removed for desecrating the Beastie Boys and stealing Natalie Portman's hairstyle from The Professional. Rude.