Sometimes I get the feeling that these successful Hollywood filmmakers are fine with Netflix. One of these examples is Joseph Kosinski, the director who brought hundreds of millions of dollars to various Hollywood studios with blockbusters like “Tron” or the sequel to “Top Gun” and then filmed this complete nonsense for Netflix, and in return filled his current account with a fine amount of millions dollars. This bizarre and borderline idiotic action sci-fi thriller even gets off to a somewhat intriguing start, apparently modeled after Garland’s “Ex Machina,” only to have it all fall apart very quickly. Apart from the director, it seems to me that in these cases, those well-paid Hollywood A-actors also screw up very well, like for example Chris Hemsworth, who plays a scientist who started an experimental program during which he changes the mechanisms in the brains of guinea pigs or prisoners.
One of those inmates is Jeff, who is apparently played by the once promising young man, Miles Teller. And the program conceived by an ambitious scientist seems like one of those that should improve and improve people’s lives and change the world for the better, but very soon it will become clear to us that this same scientist has gone dangerously astray and that he is in fact a sickly ambitious sociopath . Of course, Jeff, who is struggling with remorse because he drunkenly drove a friend to his death and ended up in prison, will be the one who will smell that something is wrong with this experimental program and that it is not exactly as the scientist claims.
And while the obvious model of “Spiderhead”, the already mentioned “Ex Machina” was a smart and complex dystopia in which the future and what awaits us are thought through in an intriguing way, this has turned into a silly and superficial papaziania on which tens of millions of dollars are ready to be spent I guess just Netflix. Regardless of the fact that I avoid all these blockbusters that fill theaters today because I simply can’t chew it anymore, one simply has to have respect for those studio directors who know how to make a product that will make money and hit the audience’s taste. But what Netflix is doing and what senseless nonsense money is being thrown at is really hard to understand and this is really very, very bad, stupid, superficial and obviously filmed just to record something.