Overrated

Rating: 6/10 (10 April 2018)

For me, a successful thriller depends on its ability to not let the audience feel manipulated by contrived plot elements or let them get too far ahead of the characters and the story. While capable of scaring you in the moment, this film fails on both counts. You will be way ahead in solving the problem here and consequently feel no sense of release or revelation when the characters catch up to you. Plenty of startle here, but no surprises. Good thrillers have plenty of both. Plus, the plot devices are so illogical and undeveloped, appearing seemingly out of little or nothing prefatory, that the larger arcs that sustain a great motion picture collapse to mere gesture. I consider my rating of 6 a charitable one.