Most people are going to fall into two camps with this. If you were born after 2005, you'll like this. If you were born before then, you wont.
The main "catch" about this movie is the fact that every scene happens on a computer or a phone through apps, facetime, email, etc. This wasn't really revolutionary the first time that it was done, and it's a bit tired now. It honestly doesn't make for a very compelling story because most of the "acting" is done with someone fingers on a keyboard.
In order to really pull this off, you have to have an amazing story. This was not that. It's a very basic disappearance thriller with no twists that haven't been 1000 times before in other movies. You can predict the ending after the first 10 minutes of the movie.
The reason teenagers will like it is that it's full of the technology that they're in love with and it has the typical trope of the 18 year old being the smartest person in the movie and the "adults" are all bumbling idiots that couldn't find their way out of a paper bag. Teenagers also haven't seen a lot of the other movies that it's based on, so it's likely to feel fresher to them.
Since there isn't really any acting in the movie at all, it's hard to really rate how the actors did. But in general I would give them an "OK", just like the movie was "OK".
I certainly wouldn't watch it again and wouldn't watch another sequel to it.
The main "catch" about this movie is the fact that every scene happens on a computer or a phone through apps, facetime, email, etc. This wasn't really revolutionary the first time that it was done, and it's a bit tired now. It honestly doesn't make for a very compelling story because most of the "acting" is done with someone fingers on a keyboard.
In order to really pull this off, you have to have an amazing story. This was not that. It's a very basic disappearance thriller with no twists that haven't been 1000 times before in other movies. You can predict the ending after the first 10 minutes of the movie.
The reason teenagers will like it is that it's full of the technology that they're in love with and it has the typical trope of the 18 year old being the smartest person in the movie and the "adults" are all bumbling idiots that couldn't find their way out of a paper bag. Teenagers also haven't seen a lot of the other movies that it's based on, so it's likely to feel fresher to them.
Since there isn't really any acting in the movie at all, it's hard to really rate how the actors did. But in general I would give them an "OK", just like the movie was "OK".
I certainly wouldn't watch it again and wouldn't watch another sequel to it.