Understand that if you're watching this movie, you've already seen it.
Do you think it's the game Control? Yes. It is that... except worse. It's horror about a woman with psychic powers. But without the layers of juxtaposition with normal and the bizarre. All of the style is removed.
Do you think it's like the MCU with an Elizabeth Olson look-a-like sporting powers? Yes. It's that... Except worse. They wanted cool mom using psychic powers to kill people. But didn't really give her interesting things to do with those powers. You get some basic attacks and unchoreographed actors acting like they're in pain. They don't even film it well.
Do you think it's like the game, Portal? Yes. It's that... except worse. It is testing in a chamber with a mysterious robotic woman's voice giving instructions. But none of the whimsy or fun.
Everything about this movie is a ripoff of something famous and better. You've seen every reveal and surprise and interesting thing this film has to offer. But you've already seen it better.
The film techniques seem unrelated to what you're watching with the cameras in random positions and shifting randomly between cuts without meaning or direction. The actors appear to have been told to take as much time as they can with everything they do, to the point of it being awkward for them to do mundane tasks like walking across a room. Even the actors didn't know how to make this slow of a pace seem natural.
The lack of care from the film makers is painful. And an insult to whoever paid for this movie to be made. It's an insult to the actors, and an insult to the audience. Crucial details like how much time is left on the clock are used to add tension, which is completely deflated as the clock regularly has time clearly added or removed between shots. They just didn't care. A character even calls out that there's only 60 seconds left, only for the next shot to show it being closer to 90 seconds.
If you can avoid seeing this film, please do. I give it a 2 star because there COULD have been something good here. The one set was designed well. No other sets were. And nothing about this movie should inspire other films. I hope I'm the last one to see this movie.
Control
2022
Sci-Fi
Control
2022
Sci-Fi
Keywords: super powermother
Plot summary
A woman is imprisoned by a mysterious organization intent on testing her latent psychic abilities.
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Before you view (no spoilers)
This is in NO way, shape or form thrilling, at all.
The bad: this is NOT a sciencefiction movie. Nor is it dramatic or thrilling. It's amateur hour.
What do we get to see? A woman alone in 1 room for the entirety of the movie. They had beter make sure beforehand that this actress could really act well, otherwise this movie would implode by below average acting performances. And that is exactly what happened. Bummer.
Not any good then? Well, the actress isnt terrible. It isnt so bad, that I started laughing, but again if I had found it to be so bad, that I DID started laughing that would actually be a good thing. At least when I laugh I get entertained, but with this movie I only got BORED.
A fun premise spoiled by abysmal, breathtakingly stupid writing
The dialogue is so transparently contrived you cannot take seriously that a human being, let alone a pair of them, could possibly be so deliberately unhelpful, obfuscating and unreasonable.
Reminiscent of The Cube but infinitely less self-aware, bluntly, the writing is too stupid to allow even the most credulous of audiences to enjoy the premise.
The performances are emotionally convincing, and camera work is laudable given the budget, nothing can save the film from writing so disingenously unlike a real person. You spend the entire time frustrated that the characters won't utter a single coherent sentence. Beyond that, the exposition is blunt and choppy, the characters' decisions make no sense, the emotionality feels like the writer has never actually met a human being.
No decision in the entire film, either by the characters, writer or driector make any sense. It's incoherent from opening to close.
Just a disasterous waste of decent acting and a potentially interesting idea.