First time in my movie review history here that I am going to present a full, balls to the wall spoiler breakdown for a film.
I saw in another review that someone was skeptical about the movie through like the first half, then was very satisfied with how it turned out by the end of it. I had the sheer opposite experience. It starts off good. You are introduced to this very pretty girl who has a phobia and basically an utter hatred for people with any type of imperfection with their body, be it a birthmark, a missing limb, or what have you. Ironically, she and her husband are the heads of a company that works to develope mental health apps.
One of their workers comes in one day and he seems to be lacking a pinky. Before she even gets a chance to look at him, a girl that was I believe an intern or secretary or something at the company comes in and notifies her that the man's pinky is missing. She about flips her lid and asks the girl to make him leave. She doesn't do this, and the gentleman just continues on his merry way with the work he was doing in his office on his computer. That night, her husband sits her down and has a talk with her about how they can't fire the man because he is a key asset to the company for the development of their apps.
The man claims that he managed to sever his own pinky whilst trying to engage in a carpentry project. The next day, he comes in missing another finger. He stands by his alibi and explains that he didn't learn the first time, so he ended up losing another finger during a second attempt (who the hell, right?). Anyway, at this point, the lady who is all in a fuss about physical imperfections ends up going to see a therapist or counselor or whatever he's supposed to be.
So cut to a little later. You find out this old dude is having these two goons track this man down and they cut off a finger whenever they find him. Toward the end of the movie you find out that it is becuase the old dude thought that this guy was a lawyer that messed his day up recently, but he had wrote the address down wrong so they had the wrong guy all along. Anyway, the lady's therapist dude just thinks its all in the guy's head and that he is cutting his own fingers off and suffering from a delusional fantasy that two men are cutting them off. Ultimately, the woman finds out he really is having his fingers cut off by these two guys, and she wants to stop them.
She kidnaps the one guy's dog and proceeds to call him and tell him that if he cuts off one more of the guy's fingers, she will cut the dog into pieces. You think she's bluffing, but she's not. He cuts more of the man's fingers off in spite and the next thing you know he's waking up in a daze tied to a chair with either the dog's severed arm or tail or something laying before him, leaving the rest of what she did to it to the imagation. Thats where I started to have a problem with it. Yeah, its a movie in this case, but still. If someone does something negative to you or someone you know, you don't take it out on their pet who played no role in it what so ever. You especially don't take it's life. Its not their fault...
From that point it just got more and more nonsensical and stupid. The protagonist lady and her therapist go to where the one guy who was cutting the dude's fingers off is at so she can show him he's real and was actually doing it. The guy shoots and kills the therapist, and then the woman's husband comes out and shoots the bad guy. They just shrug off the therapist being killed like its no bigs and kinda chuckle about it. Idk, it went from being a light hearted movie with a moderately serious tone to being like way out there and stupid. So, that about sums it up. I wasn't too impressed. It gets a 5 because the first like 3 quarters of it was good until it just kinda sank.
I saw in another review that someone was skeptical about the movie through like the first half, then was very satisfied with how it turned out by the end of it. I had the sheer opposite experience. It starts off good. You are introduced to this very pretty girl who has a phobia and basically an utter hatred for people with any type of imperfection with their body, be it a birthmark, a missing limb, or what have you. Ironically, she and her husband are the heads of a company that works to develope mental health apps.
One of their workers comes in one day and he seems to be lacking a pinky. Before she even gets a chance to look at him, a girl that was I believe an intern or secretary or something at the company comes in and notifies her that the man's pinky is missing. She about flips her lid and asks the girl to make him leave. She doesn't do this, and the gentleman just continues on his merry way with the work he was doing in his office on his computer. That night, her husband sits her down and has a talk with her about how they can't fire the man because he is a key asset to the company for the development of their apps.
The man claims that he managed to sever his own pinky whilst trying to engage in a carpentry project. The next day, he comes in missing another finger. He stands by his alibi and explains that he didn't learn the first time, so he ended up losing another finger during a second attempt (who the hell, right?). Anyway, at this point, the lady who is all in a fuss about physical imperfections ends up going to see a therapist or counselor or whatever he's supposed to be.
So cut to a little later. You find out this old dude is having these two goons track this man down and they cut off a finger whenever they find him. Toward the end of the movie you find out that it is becuase the old dude thought that this guy was a lawyer that messed his day up recently, but he had wrote the address down wrong so they had the wrong guy all along. Anyway, the lady's therapist dude just thinks its all in the guy's head and that he is cutting his own fingers off and suffering from a delusional fantasy that two men are cutting them off. Ultimately, the woman finds out he really is having his fingers cut off by these two guys, and she wants to stop them.
She kidnaps the one guy's dog and proceeds to call him and tell him that if he cuts off one more of the guy's fingers, she will cut the dog into pieces. You think she's bluffing, but she's not. He cuts more of the man's fingers off in spite and the next thing you know he's waking up in a daze tied to a chair with either the dog's severed arm or tail or something laying before him, leaving the rest of what she did to it to the imagation. Thats where I started to have a problem with it. Yeah, its a movie in this case, but still. If someone does something negative to you or someone you know, you don't take it out on their pet who played no role in it what so ever. You especially don't take it's life. Its not their fault...
From that point it just got more and more nonsensical and stupid. The protagonist lady and her therapist go to where the one guy who was cutting the dude's fingers off is at so she can show him he's real and was actually doing it. The guy shoots and kills the therapist, and then the woman's husband comes out and shoots the bad guy. They just shrug off the therapist being killed like its no bigs and kinda chuckle about it. Idk, it went from being a light hearted movie with a moderately serious tone to being like way out there and stupid. So, that about sums it up. I wasn't too impressed. It gets a 5 because the first like 3 quarters of it was good until it just kinda sank.
