Unfriended
While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. At first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, they realize they are dealing with something out of this world, something that wants them dead.
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- Cast:
- Shelley Hennig , Heather Sossaman , Renee Olstead , Matthew Bohrer , Moses Storm , Will Peltz , Jacob Wysocki
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To me, this movie is perfection.
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
When I first viewed this film I really didn't like it. Found it to be tedious and slow paced. As the new Unfriended is coming out I thought I'd give this another shot - glad I did. I won't say the acting is fantastic but it doesn't suck either. The scenes are great considering the level of technology at the time of filming. The use of on-line style communication services, seeing how vulnerable the characters were to intrusion and their loss of control of the situation I felt were well directed. I'd recommend it for something to fill up your collection - not great, but worth a watch now and then.
Unfriended starts out with an interesting concept, yet by the end flops. The medium of the laptop is an interesting choice, yet seems a bit stilted at times, suffering from painfully long pauses. Indeed, when Blair speaks with her boyfriend through text, the background conversation is completely muted, which would be fine if the visuals were interesting during those moments, but often amount to nothing more than a text saying "Babe stop." The music that plays sparingly is a nice reprieve from the silence, yet is often too loud to comfortably hear the speakers (sometimes on purpose for plot reasons, othertimes just bad audio mixing). There are a few plot holes the writers don't particularly address (one of the character's deaths doesn't make a lot of sense upon analysis being the most noticable). The actors and actresses are decent for what they were given, with particular credit going to the actress of Blair. The writing ranges from boring and weirdly oblivious to painful quips ("Obvious troll is obvious," I'm looking at you here). All in all, it's not a film you should go out of your way to see. There are a few enjoyable moments, yet they are far too few to consider watching the film. This is a film you can rip on with friends, not something to watch at night alone when you're browsing Amazon Prime.
CONTAINS PLOT SPOILERSSix friends video chat on line a year after their friend Laura Barns commits suicide. This is followed by secrets revealed, evil suicide spirit playing "10 little Indians". Yes, this film had me pining for hand held camera footage. The entire film is pictures of the web cam video of the kids. All we see is the screen for the entire film. I would use the cliche "I will never get 90 minutes of my life back" except it was only 83 minutes and I should have walked out. Oh yea, another cliche for this film, "Amazon won't let me give zero stars" seems to apply.Now I will admit, I don't video chat because I can only type naked. Perhaps young adults who spend their time video chatting with a circle of friends might love this film. I couldn't relate to it on any level. It did start off with a tease when she says, "I want to make Prom night, tonight" but they both stay at home in front of their computer, apparently meaning the film "Prom Night" and not doing the nasty.Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.
I didn't watch this movie with high expectations, and I'm glad I didn't. Nothing about this movie is really worth writing about, but here I am anyways. The acting was average, they were convincing as basic teenagers, but the biggest issue with this movie was the characters. Ignore the terribly cringe-inducing story line, the characters were so unlikable. I've never seen a movie that made me hate the main characters more. Part of what makes a good thriller is actually fearing the fate of the characters you love. The blonde girl, Jess, was so unlikable that part of me actually felt relieved when she died. It was the same with all of the characters, they were portrayed as basic rich white kids with no issues and a cliquey attitude. Every one of these characters made a girl kill herself, so why should I feel bad when they die too? They were all pretty annoying teens and it made the movie unbearable. I will give it some credit for the style of the movie, I like those screen-share movies/episodes of shows. (also what was with the computer taking forever to download a 999KB file, yet hardly lagging at all in a multi person Skype call? and playing songs without buffering? and loading pages instantly? when my computer is downloading stuff at 55kb/s it takes FOREVER to load everything else.)