INSIDE (2023)
Tagline: A solitary exhibition
(Drama, Desperation, So You Really Want to Be in A Penthouse?) [R]
Cats die, music fades, but art is for keeps.
In this one Nemo breaks into a really rich person’s penthouse to steal some high-end artwork. After getting past the security system he ends up getting locked in with seemingly no way out. On top of that due to a glitch, the water and electricity have also been shut off and no one will be returning to the penthouse for months.
Well folks, if you just love watching desperate people in misery, this is the movie for you. This thing isn’t really gory, but some of the stuff Nemo ends up eating are pretty gnarly. It’s almost as bad as an episode of Survivor. This film covers a variety of topics and ends up playing out like a very long episode of the Twilight Zone from the 50’s only it’s done in the worst possible way imaginable. We get the usual “everything looks fine” but when you start peeling back the layer’s madness is somewhere in there and hopelessness is right outside the door. Then this movie just plunges into that head-on like its only purpose is to waste your time and ruin your day.
Some of this film gets into the loneliness of being trapped via hallucinations and talking to yourself just to hear something, but where this movie fails is in the script and in the story. This thing is bland, boring, and has nothing redeeming about it. I guess if you are a super Willem Dafoe (THE BOONDOCK SAINTS) fan, then this might be worth your time just to see him stuck in a penthouse for 100 minutes but why?
I can only assume critics were looking at Vasilis Katsoupis direction which is actually pretty decent, but everything else about this freakin thing is a dumpster fire. I am actually kind of shocked this script ever saw the light of day. That’s it. I know this review is short, but that is all I have for you. I don’t want to spend another 400 words or so telling you what a giant pile of crap this movie is (literally).
This is honestly one of the worst movies I have ever seen, not just for 2023.
So let’s recap. This movie is terrible; I can’t recommend it. My advice is to run as far from this freakin thing as possible.
I give this thing a 0 out of 7. You read that right.
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