Right then! If it’s starting like this, it’s not going to be any easier to find good films in 2026 than it was in 2025! Especially as I really struggle with these Canadian films.
Rylee Baker, a 16-year-old girl, bumps into her idol, pop star Payton Adler, by chance. She quickly discovers he’s a drug addict and decides to help him get clean.
This film is excellent for over an hour. Unfortunately, the last twenty minutes… er… how can I put it?
This time, I’m going to show no mercy for an ending that ruins everything.
Once again, there are things that worry me. Did the director, Emma Higgins, really think we could sympathise with the main teenage character? Sorry, but you’d have to be completely brainless or heartless to like her and condone what she does.
In any case, I don’t think the director has seen many significant films in her life. She must have fed on rubbish films, which certainly gave her the impression she could do better!
No moral, no lesson to be learnt. Just perversion and atrocious acts, trivialised in today’s degrading society, which go unpunished.
Don’t waste your time, unless you can watch anything without a shred of critical thinking. If you can be made to swallow anything, then go for it!
If you love hopeless films, you might as well throw yourself headlong into this feature film.
It’s not a proper romance. It’s not a film about friendship either. It’s not a masterpiece, nor is it a feel-good film like Be Somebody (2016) was – in fact, it’s quite the opposite.
Even the slow-motion scenes are far too slow to be interesting.
Are the actors any good, at least? Frankly, at this stage, we don’t care, because nothing can save such rubbish.
A kidnapping story that makes absolutely no sense! Because when you kidnap someone, you have to, at the very least, feed them, give them water and provide some sort of toilet facilities. You can’t just tie them up with a rope or handcuffs and leave them for days on end.
A feature film that looks like it was written by underachieving children. I, too, could just throw together every idea that pops into my head, without polishing it, telling myself I’m a genius, that it’ll fly, and that, on top of that, everyone will love it. But the real world isn’t always quite that stupid!
Although the film is very disturbing and dark, much like our current society, it’s not therapy (at least not the sort to be shared), nor is it a film with a message, and it’s worth simply pointing that out. It would be wise to use art to find solutions, to make people think and dream, rather than just trying to brainwash them or assume that the viewer is necessarily an twat.
A story that makes you believe you can kill anyone without being noticed. A world without a detective, with cops who are as useless as ever (inevitably!) and people (like the father) who have absolutely no idea what’s going on around them. At the same time, I didn’t really want to watch this film and I didn’t listen to my instincts. My open-mindedness could be my downfall if I don’t set some boundaries.
Someone broke the fourth wall and I couldn’t help giving them the finger from behind my screen! If only they’d actually seen me to know what I think of this rubbish…
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