Choke (2020) User Reviews

Perhaps it meant to be artsy, but it failed.

[Patient444 · 3/10 · 24 May 2020]

Ok, this one has a lot of very few things going on for it: all the montages you could squeeze in a movie of 93 minute, so many monologues and a bunch of random scenes that I think were supposed to have a meaning, but it flew right over my head sadly.

It is hard to recommend it, because what is it exactly? Horror..not quite, thriller..perhaps, drama, psychological..just tiny bits. It is a movie that I'm glad it was made because experimental cinema manages to bring new stuff to the surface, but this one I feel will pass without making waves, because it has no target audience, well, perhaps those into choking and that alone.

You can clearly notice that the people who made this, did try their best and the quality is overall acceptable for such an indie production, yet even tho it started nicely and did grow, it became boring and rather confusing. Sadly, not a fan.

Cheers!

Absolutely dreadful

[jackofnathan · 3/10 · 12 July 2020]

This is a poor attempt at an art house movie gone terribly wrong. The story is all over the place and doesn't make sense or add up to anything satisfying at all. The acting is hit or miss, but the acting by leading man Shane Ryan is just abysmal and drags this movie down lower than it maybe should have been otherwise. Performance-wise, the movie is redeemed a little bit by Sarah Brine, who is so fun and interesting to watch that she almost makes up for everything else about this sad effort. The music is decent and it isn't completely awful to look at, so there's that.

I'm trying, but...

[jwebber-00545 · 2/10 · 24 June 2020]

I like to try to find something good to say about any movie because there has to be some kind of merit somewhere, right? I guess here it would be the acting, which doesn't completely miss the mark but is nothing to write home about either. I guess it was just good enough acting that I won't give it a 1 but man this was a bad movie.

Choke It Down If You Can

[nebk · 1/10 · 24 May 2020]

This is clearly a very low budget film and at just 73 minutes long including the credits "Choke" really scrapes the bottom of the barrel at times.

The cast is largely unknown. Not that this is a bad thing but it is indicative of what can be expected. The movie starts of with a woman's voice narrating the actions of a killer choking his victim. Then we see him buying an old camera and meeting a girl on the train. They have a strange conversation about religion. And this intercuts with scenes of the killer choking her and at first it's difficult to differentiate if this is a fantasy of his or actually has taken place. Then we see him screaming and weeping and then choking more different women and laughing maniacaly. And it gets stranger from then on.

Most of the dialogue is cringe worthy and it gets worse as the movie goes on. The acting is just plain bad for the most part. There are also what appear to be weird social messages thrown in the dialogue. The killers mother tells him his father is sick and that "all that drinking and binging finally got to him". The girl states all her friends reject her because she doesn't go to church. After awhile the viewer might wonder if this was thrown in on purpose or was it purely accidental during the script writing. The narration by the girl and then by a cop gets boring after awhile and the less said about the ending the better. Overall a poor effort.

Remember the day when you slapped me?

[nogodnomasters · 1/10 · 2 June 2020]

The film was about choking for pleasure or death. People are into choking for the intensity but things were never really explained. The double plot line didn't help. Wasn't for me.

Guide: F-word. sex. brief nudity

A waste of time

[emad-34151 · 1/10 · 5 June 2020]

I advise you not to waste your time watching this thing😒😒

A crime against cinema

[Sal-Makhoul · 1/10 · 4 July 2020]

This is the worst movie I've seen in 2020, and the bar is very low this year.

Bad dialogs. Laughable acting. And annoying overuse of voice over. They wanted to be artistic but came out to be stupid.

Embarrassing to watch through.

[KingOfHungary · 1/10 · 4 July 2020]

This is a terrible, and terribly boring attempt at a movie. Awful amateur acting, with, rambling, irritating voiceovers monologuing with grating voices and garbage dialogue. Nearly incomprehensible story of an autistic adult who meets a 17 year old girl who is a prostitute too, maybe. Maybe, because the story jumps around between showing montages of mindless and boring couples date activities, and people being choked to death. Nothing is rooted in concrete reality, so the movie ends up being like an abstract perfume commercial, where it's just montages of people doing things, with little actual connection. Later on in the film some rogue border agent and a haggard old lady shows up and they choke each other, where the old lady overacts like no tomorrow, while the agent has dead fish eyes. Just a trainwreck from top to bottom, cinematography, dialogue, acting, story, everything is amateur hour.

I had to sit through the movie for the sake of writing this review !!

[siddhanth_april15 · 1/10 · 11 July 2020]

This movie is nothing but 70 mins of what the heck is going on .. 15 mins into the movie I lost my interest to watch it further but I sat through waiting for a moment where everything will make sense .

This movie is downright boring ... there is literally nothing in this movie to spend your 70 mins for ... I only blame myself for choosing this movie on a Friday night .

Too much for too little

[HarmzWayHarmz · 4/10 · 22 June 2020]

This movie featured some decent performances from its leads and it had a lot of potential, but the attempt with the overlapping storylines weighed it down. With a little more focus it might have been something good, instead of just a slightly below average horror movie.

Insanely different. Insane

[guerillamoviemakers · 9/10 · 26 May 2020]

There's no way to describe this film, really, which is merely a shame due to the low attention span of society today. I can't see your average youtuber audience giving this more than 5 minutes of attention, or even begin to comprehend what's happening were they to watch the whole thing. I don't even know what exactly happened, but I actually enjoy that. It kept me thinking long after the end. And many films these days seem to be afraid to try that anymore. This was a big thing in the 90s with ground breaking independent films which has long been lost.

There are plenty of flaws, but then again the early works of Aronofsky, Nolan, Soderbergh, and all of the major filmmaker working today also had flaws, if not more. But they also showed that they had a unique and original vision, which audiences then not only had the patience for, but new and interesting voices is what they wanted. Choke has this, in so many ways.

Choke can't be defined, which people seem to look at that as a curse these days, or as simply "bad", when all that means it that it truly is a "work of art."

This film is art, it's unique, it's original, while obviously influenced by many films before it as well. It's a shame that the world today simply does not believe in cinema anymore, as this could have made such a huge impact if released 25 years ago.

What did i just watch

[mohamadacma · 6/10 · 17 July 2020]

So it appears that people in the movie has discovered choking one self to be a form of therapy reverted to whenever life pins you down. This is one of those films that you don't really understand the purpose of, but still leaves you confused. Reminded me of Under the skin. Same vibes

Worst kind

[ks-60500 · 2/10 · 5 June 2020]

It's indescribable that how poor this film is made. Craziness of the male actor for 2 mins what for? Low budget can be good but not this one.

what exactly is it suppose to be?

[gogo_mostafa · 1/10 · 30 May 2020]

What is this !? I kept watching till the end to figure something out and it is dissappointing

I got choked

[mitchowdhury-mail · 1/10 · 5 July 2020]

As worthless and horrible as it can get. I have never seen a more useless movie. Horrible. Just horrible. Please do not watch this nonsense.

what a mess

[BtzLtd · 4/10 · 8 June 2020]

How many parallel story lines were jammed in here? wow, this thing fell apart pretty quickly. it shows promise in moments, but the first 20 minutes were written like a bad high school journal, and the rest was too busy to fully resonate. also, how did this get crammed into 73 minutes? with more focus and fewer "arthouse" affectations, it couldve been a better movie. not terrible, but not necessarily recommended

A waste of time

[shuvra124 · 1/10 · 6 July 2020]

Don't waste your time to watch this. All positive review are paid i think. No plot, no story, no acting, idk how its 6.4 rating, its should be 2* max!

Don't Bother

[akharvey · 1/10 · 7 July 2020]

Unless you really, absolutely, find some sort of pleasure in knowingly wasting an hour of your life, then I would not recommend watching this "movie". It's incoherently dreadful - dialogue, story, acting, camera work.

This Movie Pretty Much Chokes On All Levels....

[wandernn1-81-683274 · 2/10 · 15 June 2020]

Oh ....my.... God.... I had a long review here typed and IMDB erased it when the internet got jammed up for a minute. IMDB you suck. Learn from Google, save drafts on occasion....

Okay this movie is about some serial killer and a cop, that have some sort of fetish with Choking. Also some sort of cult and a therapist of some sort get into the mix.

It's a pretty damn stupid movie I guess was supposed to be some sort of artsy fartsy type movie, about choking, and killing.

I know when my draft got erased I was already at a 3 score and the ending of the movie was horrible....terrible, so lame. This movie is a complete waste of time but I did make it to the end so it gets a .....

2/10

What in hell was this movie about?!

[melomano-subira · 4/10 · 1 November 2020]

This is my first review because I couldn't let go the fact some movies -this one, in fact--have ratings way above they deserve. I never rank anything below 5 because I know you have to move mountains to showcase your work as a writer/creator, but this movie, man, this movie doesn't have anything to offer.

There are good ideas that can actually be pretty unsettling, but the execution is bad as my english. The story is all over the place and even when you know things are going to some kind of ending, they managed to make it so "artsy" that you have to be high as hell to make some sense of what you're looking at.

Lisa London

[d_capell1953 · 8/10 · 26 May 2020]

I thought the movie was a bit strange..and I don't think my friends would like it .. I am an ID ADDICT so I watch some stuff like this .. I think Lisa London did a great job in her character.. I give it an 8 ..

Interesting storyline

[jefferylane · 7/10 · 8 October 2020]

This isn't my type of movie but I did end up watching it with my wife and it was actually pretty damn good. It has a lot of everything you would expect in a movie titled Choke but I was especially a fan of the cinematography and the gradual intensity the story brings as it progresses. I think many are mad here because of the acting and no known actors (none that I know off anyway) but this is one I recommend regardless.

If you appreciate Yoko Ono's song renditions...

[NedGill · 1/10 · 12 July 2020]

...then this movie is great for you.

...nuff said.

How did this get 3x Arts Funding?

[ebookgamer · 1/10 · 25 July 2020]

Worst film I've seen in years. Chops all over the place like bad editing. Bad continuity, such as the train scene, of the scenery going past. Bad acting too. Worst script. Choose another film, don't believe the 5.7 rating (as of today) is genuine. It raised funds from 3 Art Funds for films and 2 supported organisations. How?!? Now that would make for a good film. Not this one. No story, apart from one guy strangling women in long takes, boring and bad lazy taste.

If nails on a chalkboard were a movie, it would be Choke.

[cassidyh-85257 · 1/10 · 4 August 2020]

Once a month my friends and I suggest the worst possible movies to watch. This was the winner for July. The writer of this movie is clearly trying to fulfill his sick fantasy. This movie was unwatchable. Random people off the street can act better than these "actors".

Do not watch this flaming dumpster of a film. You'll thank yourself later.