gcarpiceci Review of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)

I am one of the few whose mind was not blown away...

[3/10 · 29 December 2018]

So, I am going against the main stream here (can't remember the number of reviews mentioning "mind blowing"....) I thought the base concept of Bandersnatch was pretty original and the execution extremely ambitious; the main problem I had with it was that the executional device (the interactivity) ended up hijacking the story in so far that I was more carried away by the choices I had to make than by the flow of the story itself. The way the plot is constructed is like a glass maze, where you keep wandering around and after a while you realise you are where you were a few minutes before; so, in the same way, I found myself watching several times the same sequence and, in all honesty, after 3-4 times, it started being a little repetitive. In reality, this is more of a videogame where you want to "win" by making the choices that brings you to the next ending, and this took away the sheer pleasure of watching a story. But in the end, the deadly sin of Bandersnatch is that the story is not that interesting, so the idea of watching it in loop (all of it or just parts of it) was not really motivating. Sorry, it did not blow my mind away...