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I only have ONE question.. only one.


At first, I started composing a list of things that make no sense, like the cop's apartment being 'slightly messy' but with amazingly clean floor with no stains, no any kind of ashes, not even coffee grounds, let alone dust. Not even one dust speck or any discoloring anywhere. Nothing 'icky' or 'sticky' anywhere, just clean newspapers, not even many 'old containers'.

Yet this guy forgets to buy groceries, but he still has a completely fresh, edible fruit (I don't care to research if it's mandarin or an orange or whatever) in his fridge. Only one, though, because it would make too much sense to show an actual bag of them that has a couple left or something realistic. Just one, right in the middle of the fridge. Riiight.

Then he eats is as messily, sloppily and uncaringly as possible. Drug addicts rarely eat fruits to my knowledge, as they don't care about their health as much as they care about other things; they opt for the 'quick fix' instead.

We are shown the cop to be a drug addict, yet his teeth and gums are impeccable, in perfect condition, and we're never explicitly told WHAT those drugs are. Sometimes he uses a needle, other times he pops pills, and then he suffers from headaches and inverted colors.

I mean, what the hell is this 'let's use every stupid, obsolete TV effect we can, and accompany it with the stupidest stock 'bam'-sound we can find'? Also, this movie wants to be 'The Matrix' way harder than anything I have ever seen, it even uses the same, exact songs that movie used! Isn't Keanu enough?

After I realized just how ridiculous, bad, incompetent and nonsensical this mess is, I knew I could never compose a full list - my list wouldn't do this movie's crappiness justice, so I abandoned even making a list.

Just to mention one thing; Marisa is so wasted in this, she's a good actress, but her portrayal of a therapist is ridiculously unrealistic and lethargic. A therapist would be more engaging, energetic, ask better questions than 'how do you feel about that' every 5 minutes, and sit more erect,. use better lighting, not slump like a caveman and stare like a dog. What the hell is this portrayal? Did the director want her to act like this?!

So anyway, my one question is:

HOW?

HOW do they get these big names to be in trash cashgrabs like this?

This movie is 100% hollow. It consists of slow-motion low framerate as some kind of 'effect' (it's stupid and annoying and nothing else) combined with 'let's invert the colors, because it's SO COOL!!11' by some 8-year old, who has never seen a movie before, has a completely nonsensical and irrelevant timelapse shot with weird 'cool music', idiotically cliché and stupidly drawn-out car chase, and who the hell would want to see Keanu in the role of a ruthless murderer?

His face is not made for it, he's simply not believable. He gives a good performance, I'll give you that, but as creepy as he can be as a beta simp (just compare the japanese interviews (Yaguchi Hitori) of him and Hugh Jackman, to see 'beta nerd' and 'alpha male' behaviour contrasted - they're just so different, and you can so obviously see the difference), he's just not believable as any kind of mastermind murderer.

It's so implausible that they show some woman's face on TV, posters, etc., but ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, including herself (my poor forehead) ever sees any of it.

We're shown SO MUCH of the 'cops' doing this 'have you seen this girl'-crap, you could go vomit in the toilet and then have a good sitting session in there, and when you slowly come back, you'll still be hearing 'have you seenm her'. There's no pacing in this movie, everything just goes on forever, and then the girl gets murdered anyway. Great, thanks for making the whole thing useless and for making the audience disappointed.

Couldn't there be some kind of actual plot and story instead of just bunch of clichés and stupid TV effects? If the cameraman with the shaky hands would've used half that shaking effort to just write something on paper, that would've undoubtedly become a more interesting story.

How.. how the heck do they get big names like Keanu and Marisa and whatever that Seinfeld's 'I won't properly apologize to George' guy is, to act in these absolute garbage non-movies? I mean, how is this even a movie?

Every time I go to the bargain bin and pay one euro for a movie, I feel ripped off. I want my money back and compensation for the taste the trauma created by having to watch a 'TV-effect experiment' THIS BAD left in my mouth.

How did the pitch meeting go? I would love to see that. How did the agent present this to Marisa,. and WHY did she say yes? Was this one of those tax dodge movies with lots of money involved?

The whole premise of Keanu just killing every girl, then we are supposed to be invested in trying to rescue her, only for her to be killed by him, over and over just feels like wasted investment and by the end, you don't care.

How do they get big names in "movies" like this?HOW?

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