Assassination Nation (2018)(Review)

Assassination Nation (2018) Assassination Nation is an American independent film directed by Sam Levinson. Described as a satirical thriller with a touch of black humor, it premiered out of competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2018 during a midnight screening. On its release, it received generally positive reviews from both the American and French press. Incredible! Nevertheless, it was a box-office failure. That’s fortunate! It’s a feminist film (even though it was directed by Sam Levinson, who is an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer) including every conceivable cliché about men! It’s a far-fetched script and a disgraceful film that I wouldn’t recommend! This is probably one of the biggest turnips of 2018! 😡 In the town of Salem, men take up arms to lynch four young girls accused of hacking into the inhabitants’ personal data. Chaos ensues. There’s not much to salvage from this film, which desperately tries to shock by all means and tilts at the end into nauseating, ridiculous violence. This is an outrageous film that can also give you a headache. Avoid it! Really!!! Run away! It’s so poorly presented, so abysmally ridiculous.The only thing the director has managed to kill is my good mood. This film has a trashy, vulgar atmosphere that is truly detestable.It’s really a low-grade, lamentable film. There’s nothing to salvage from this turnip about a new, decadent era completely addicted to dangerous social networks. 1h50 min of “but what am I doing with my life…” Film written by old people about a caricatured and reactionary representation of youth, where all the girls are in low-cut miniskirts and exposed nipples, are 100% of their time on their phones, are hyper superficial and spend their time sending naked photos, where the boys think about sex all day long and live only for that. Unrealistic scenario from start to finish, with reactions to events worthy of the worst fantasies of the caricatured teenagers the film presents to us, unrealistic death scenes, a film that would like to look like it, but doesn’t, that touts anything (racism, transphobia…). Everyone plays their role as a cliché. Spoiler alert: “Hello! Parents learn that their daughter’s sex life has been shared on the Internet, and decide to kick her out instead of… I don’t know… reassure her, maybe? Or maybe teach her a lesson, but support her anyway!)” There’s more wrong with this film than I could say in a month without catching my breath or sleeping. And don’t even get me started on the nanar: there’s bad and then there’s insulting the viewer. You can’t save a film by pretending it’s black humor and trying to be clever.In short, an incoherent piece of filth which, not content with insulting youth, boasts of being a film with the wrong feminism, because the main characters are liberated, vulgar, arrogant women (even if the film is as sexist as they come). Very bad film, really creepy, uninteresting, long, stereotyped! One of the very few positive points is that it’s so bad that some scenes are actually funny. But the humor of the film itself is not funny at all. It’s so mixed up and absurd that you can’t understand a thing, so don’t waste a ticket or electricity on it. As a cinephile, it’s common for me to try to find the good in every film. “Assassination Nation” made that search a little more difficult, if not impossible. Aesthetically pleasing scenes with lots of close-ups coupled with an ethereal, up-to-the-minute soundtrack were to be fingered among the only enjoyable aspects of an otherwise nonsensical and often confusing film. The story seemed unable to find itself and stick to a central message: was this supposed to be Girl Power? Or a statement about the apparent death of privacy to make way for the digital age. My high hopes for the film were dashed by an inability to convey any message at all, and by an ultimately muddled script… A big turnip, with really stupid characters. You don’t feel any empathy for them, that’s the last straw. The author of this feature really has a negative view of the new generations and doesn’t see the rest, the other facets. I had a really hard time watching it all the way through. The dialogue is flat. The only good person is the principal, but we don’t see much of him. I’m not going to talk about the actresses… except to say that Suki Waterhouse is not the problem in this film. She’s not the most annoying person in the cast, for once.

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