39/40
I really wanted to like this
Story
A group of friends gather for a pre-wedding party that descends into an existential nightmare when an estranged friend shows up with a mysterious game that awakens long-hidden secrets, desires, and resentments. There is background music throughout the film, which varies on the second movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony. Reference in Amanda the Jedi Show: NIGHT SWIMMING is Garbage | Explained (2024). Coppelia: Act I: Valse, written by Léo Delibes, performed by the Orchestra Symfonický Slovenského rozhlasu (as the Orchestra of the Slovak Radio) and Andrew Mogrelia, courtesy of Naxos of America, arranged by HD Music Now Inc.
Instead, it got worse pretty quickly
It started off well enough; I even liked the mechanics they used (which I won’t give away here). As someone else said, it looked like it was going to get really interesting pretty quickly. The thing is, all these friends are meeting at this house for an evening of fun, OK — but we really don’t know them. And because we don’t know them at all, we’re just not invested in what’s going on.
What about everyone else?
Sure, one of the couples is introduced early on, just through a very particular lens. We get clues, not many. They’re drawn pretty flatly and broadly, and as an audience, we don’t care enough to care beyond the superficial level. I think what the film is trying to do here really requires us to invest.
I gave up after 35 minutes
It’s like we’ve agreed to go on a rollercoaster ride with them, but before we can even say hello and exchange pleasantries, we’re tied up and shunted off to the next two hours. And the journey is a lot less fun than it thinks it is. I’m a pretty avid watcher of horror movies of all kinds (I actually found Bodies Bodies Bodies funny) — but this one just didn’t work for me. is one of the biggest TV and streaming premieres this month.
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