A.C.’s Review: What
is a movie when it is not a movie? Unfriended was one hour and twenty
minutes of several teenagers on a skype chat being menaced by a hacker
purporting to be
their dead friend who committed suicide a year earlier thanks to an
embarrassing video one of the friends posted on You Tube.
I
knew the format of this movie going in and it sounded different so I
thought I would give it a chance. In addition to the Skyping the main
character…I forget her
name was continually private messaging, looking things up on
Google…just about everything you can do online she was doing as part of
the plot as she and her friends try to figure out what is going on. Why
don’t they just log off you ask? If they do someone
will die. They might have well have because everybody pretty much died
anyway.
While
watching two women got up and left a half hour into it. I suspect they
went into this not knowing that it was all going to take place on
someone’s computer
monitor or why else would they leave? You should always know a little
bit about a movie before going into it.
Anyway
the film was worthless for those of us who did stick around. It gets
points for trying to do something creative but failed in the execution
when there was
no reason to like or care about the teens being tormented.
Best
Scene: The Phantom Hacker prints out a message to the main girl’s
computer. The others demand her to read what it says. She refuses saying
she can’t but they
won’t let up. Finally she reads it and what is said was that one of her
friends will die if she reads it to the others and one of the teens
promptly gets his head blown off by a gun.
A.C.’s Rating: DVD
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