More than acting, I really enjoyed his performance as a director for Air. Loved that movie! I'm also in the minority which loves him as Bruce Wayne, so looking forward to seeing him in Flash, probably for the last time.
The last thing that Ben Affleck was really good in was The Way Back. It’s more or less a paint by numbers sports drama, but I think it hit all the right notes and Affleck was really compelling in it (possibly due to his personal connection to the character)
Goofy suits for the main villains, pointless MCU wannabe after credits, tons of lazy exposition, stale acting from Ben Affleck, lack of tension in a thriller film, it goes on forever
You SUPPORT the concept of me a woman should have the power to dictate to you what you not only say, do, believe, remember, think even FEEL? Are you serious? Perhaps Gloria Steinem is right after-all, and we’ve selectively I’ll-bred and programmed you ‘feminised’ men into being ‘too weak and stupid masochists to live’. Please do as the movie wants. Even we anti-feminist women don’t want even our daughters exposed to an entire group of people so pathetic, useless, inferior, NO pride, self respect, value, importance even dignity in death as anything but negative role models.
I actually really enjoyed this movie! It wasn't perfect and I get the complaints, but I thought the premise and the way they pulled it off were really cool
Disagree with you on this one. I thought this and Guardians Vol. 3 have been the best of 2023 so far and better than many of the Oscar movies last year. Sometimes I think movies are too subjective for reviews and awards. Keep up the good work!
I think you missed the point of the film. Everything you criticise is deliberate and done tongue in cheek. From the 90s b movie sound track to Ben Affleck doing a brilliant impersonation of Steven Segal to the exposition. It is hilarious and only works because it is played with a straight face. This is the film inception and tenet could have been if they weren't so poefaced and at 93 minutes there is no dead wood. Marvel could learn lots from Rodriguez. Most enjoyable film of the year a total triumph and a work of genius you just need to be in on the joke. Love on ya.
I actually liked this movie! The first 30 minutes or so, I thought it was just beginning to be a poorly written movie. However, the twists were good in my opinion. Yeah, it can leave have you very confused at times, but overall a decent movie. It's not on par with Inception, but I think many would enjoy it.
Please read comments. Please never have sons or faughters. Any men so self hating, masochistic. There may be only one thing we anti-feminist female scientists agree with Gloria Steinem and NOW regarding, perhaps we have sadistically dominated to do badly you men are too weak and stupid to tolerate, no let live, anymore. You are why the SCUM Manifesto is not only Curriculum in universities now, soon the core of ‘toxic masculinity’ already official public school policy today. Your masichism is truly horrifying and we non-feminist women would not want our kids to know your like. Sons or daughters.😱
This feels a lot like inception and is like a second movie dealing with the mind in another way, sort of like how split and unbreakable connect to each other I just watched it and thought it was actually pretty interesting
SPOILER WARNING Not a bad movie, but not a timeless classic either. I think a lot of people don’t like this movie because they either didn’t pay complete attention or they were distracted on their phones. Either one of these would cause people to not understand the movie. These are my thoughts on the film. If you rearrange all of the letters of Lev Dellrayne you will spell out Deer Valley Ln. Rourke hid the meaning of Find Lev Dellrayne so well that he forgot the original meaning and that is why it took him 13 tries to remember. Yes the dialogue can be eye rolling at times and feel fake, unnatural, and or bad. Then again you could say everyone Rourke is interacting with is fake and pretending to be someone they really aren’t so perhaps it’s the other characters not being able to hold up the facade well even if they’ve all acted out the story numerous times. There are a couple of parts where I was sitting back thinking yeah that wouldn’t happen. The part where the man is sitting on the couch with a sawed of shotgun in Mexico and asks who is at the door in English. 100% he would have asked in Spanish. The part where the hacker is able to decrypt a police database in a matter of seconds. Where is the electricity coming from for him to use such a piece of equipment and it’s too fast to be reality. The part where they go to a jail facility and there is no staff. Then again when I think about it, it all goes back to everyone not holding up the facade well. I know alot of people complain with how Rourke behaves throughout the film. People say he should be more animated at certain parts, but I believe Rourke acts the way he does because he is so sad, so guilt ridden that he just doesn’t have any happiness left in him. Imagine if your daughter was kidnapped because you took your eyes off of her for a moment and you didn’t know if she was dead or alive for three years and you finally found her, part of you might think it’s not real it’s just a dream and you don’t want to get excited for no reason. All in all I liked this movie despite what people say. It’s definitely worth a watch. Personally I would wait to stream it because most movie theaters nowadays are garbage and aren’t worth the money.
This is a very cool concept that was given so fucking little space to breathe, feels like it actually would've been better as a 10 episode TV show where it could set up it's dominoes (😉) properly
@@tonyg76 then mind bending movies might not be your thing. I'm a dreamer and understand levels of dreams as well as the mental state and scenarios. So this was excellent for me and my wife. It just wasn't for you folks.
Today, the good movies seem to be more complex, so that you have to watch them more than once & actually put your phone down & pay attention. If you watch Hypnotic 2xs,youll pick up a lot you didn't the 1st time.
This was a good movie. If you don't like mindbending movies then this might not be your kind of movie. I don't see how anyone can call this dumb just because it is heavy in the mindbending element. The twists and turns are pretty well written. It was like a Shutter Island, Inception mix. I would like to see this have some kind of contiuation via show or movie.
i don´t want to be rude or sarcastic so i will counter your opinion with my opinion because of this statement. (I don't see how anyone can call this dumb just because it is heavy in the mindbending element) .the movie is dumb in my opinion because of a crucial paradox that i will now explain. The Procedure (the 13th try of the procedure) is like all other procedures to monitor his behavior. that means he is in main focus all the time with 100ts of eyes fallowing every step he is taking during the bank robbery but somehow he manage to jump in a van and escape. one can argue of course that everyone has been hypnotized by Rourke but why showing the surprise of everyone when they can`t find him. this is among other things is a dumb writing mistake that is easy spotted especially if the movie is compared to Inception or shutter island where this movie pics the ideas from.
I don't mind mindbending movies but the script is just awefull. This movie was full of plot armor and it did not make sense in any way. Just a horrible movie, I had to laugh trough the entire movie with my date. We watched it randomly.
I didn't like that movie. Made no sense to me. I got the idea behind it and it's arguably a good concept but it was so poorly executed that it became unwatchable. If you like mind-bending movies, I would recommend watching Inception and skipping this one.
This movie had a great idea and that’s it. Zero chemistry between Ben and family. Was he on drugs during the scenes? Does he secretly hate his movie family, there was nothing between them. The stupid comic book outfits of the bad guys. And the end! Spoiler alert, all 30 of the bad guys get blasted by a shotgun in front of the family and they are just hanging out and relaxing and looking at the scene like they were watching a pretty sunset. My wife and I want our 4.99$ back
If I watched this on acid or mushrooms. I’d like it more. Not tripping I thought it was stupid. Ben affleck also gave me strong Bruce Willis vibes the entire time.
Spoilers ahead: I think there was three main things that bugged me about this movie: 1. The first half becomes completely irrelevant after the big reveal. 2. There were so many situations where the "evil hypnotic guy" could have just been shot, but they didn't. If a guy can literally make you kill yourself by looking at you and he is just standing there while you have a gun, why would you not shoot? 3. Why did the Division never attempt to "recreate Project Domino"? They have an entire department full of hypnotic people. Why settle for one super hypnotic when you can have several?
I agree with you on the first one, but obviously it was needed for the plot twist so we could see it wasn’t real. So i don’t get why that bothers you lol. 2. He didnt kill him because he thought the guy knew where his daughter is. Since he found the picture. His memory was obviously wiped than. Why would he shoot his only lead. He also wasn’t affected by the guy’s hypnosis until the phone call. 3. The daughter was born a super hypnotic because her parents are 2 powerful hypnotics. they said that in the movie. Its not like she just spawned out of a lab. She became project domino because they wanted to use her as a weapon. They can’t just endlessly make more like her because the other hypnotics are not that strong to birth a super version. All these things were pretty obvious so either you didn’t pay attention or just complain a lot
@stacherywelles4017 2. He was being affected by the evil guy's power long before phone call (maybe not full body control, but a lot of perception alteration), not to mention he had already brainwashed two other cops and his partner into mindless weapons. As for him being the only lead to his daughter l, he'd most likely have a phone on him that they could have used to glean some info off of, but it's honestly way to big a risk to have some that dangerous running around. 3. They... could just have them bang again? I mean, they have the two parents, with the mother believing she's on their side, so they could just recreate the night they conceived their first daughter or something and birth another. Or have him impregnate a bunch of the women hypnotics at the organization so they have a higher quantity of possible Dominio 2.0s. In science, you don't just have one success and call it a day, you run multiple tests.
To be honest it was better than I thought because I was like oh finally Ben doing action movie. Plus soooooo many references to real life it made it high! Maybe my low expectations succeeded.
Good review. I reacted the same. The end felt tossed together quickly. I was snapped out of my "suspension of disbelief" by the characters' casual indifference to what they were doing, and had done, and the future they might be facing as a result.
you can't enjoy this film if you don't buy into an idea of "hypnotics"/ability to alter your perception of reality. If it comes as silly to you, the whole movie becomes silly. But if you do, you can enjoy it quite a lot. The whole idea is derived from Yoga practice called Pratyahara, where you are basically trained to be in control over your sensory inputs with the goal to shut them all down, to be able to proceed into the next stage. Once you are in control of your own sensory inputs, you can develop the power of controlling sensory inputs and perceptions of others (classic example: snake changes into a rope, yogi climbs the rope and disappears in the sky). those are not fantasy stories, this is real. Yogi is in control of your senses (just for the show and for the money), because he is in control of his senses. in this film, this potential is way exaggerated of course, but the base is real. therefore, I enjoyed, until the last scene, where they actually killed a lot of people and said - now we are free. that was too much for my stomach to digest, because this is not how freedom works. all the rest can potentially work as showed. only it has nothing to do with hypnoses, the whole mechanism is very different.
It was a cool concept on paper but horribly executed. And just gets wack in the 3rd act and that final monologue from affleck was so forced and horribly written. Tons of plot holes to
Completely unearned twists. Wants to be like inception, actually a lot more like now you see me. It wastes a lot of time on things that don't matter at all, but then in the end you're kind of supposed to take some things as true and ignore others that have the same validity
Rodriguez tried to make Inception , but the story and acting were not that great (I blame the director on this one). Just cheesy. So many twists that it was over complicated compared to the plot. Worth a watch at home, but not theater worthy. IMO.
It should’ve been a show with more explanation and plot. I like its different to what we’re getting now. I do think it’s a copy of inception but with way too much in it and it comes so fast at the end which is the most underwhelming ending ever. Edit: but I like it I didn’t see it in the cinema it’s a interesting movie to watch if your bored and want something interesting.
1980s Good B movie at best... if they just spent a little bit more money on the effects of hypnotic this movie would have been bad ass if it was like Christopher Nolan scale but the budget wasn't in this movie I can tell
I love Robert Rodriguez so much, Sin City, From Dusk Till Dawn, Planet Terror. But this film was disappointing, I didn’t think this film was awful. But it didn’t feel like the Rodriguez I know
I think this movie was to short for what they wanted to do with it, it lacks the character development and world building that you expect from this kind of movies. It has to much of exposition dialogue instead of cool scenes were viewer gets to figure out what is happening him self and that kills the immersion aspect.
I loved Tenet because it was still a well shot film with a lot of scenes of interest and you never really had to understand it to enjoy it versus HYPNOTIC doing something that made me feel like "it should be good, I don't really get this film, am I not understanding it?" I really don't like questioning a film too much and wondering how movies with great actors become such duds because the trailer really intrigued me but the movie fell short of its potential
MOVIE IS LIKE FOOD ITS A ACQUIRED TASTE. MOVIE HAVE DIFFERENT GENRE. PEOPLE IS INTO ACTION, HORROR OR THILLER OR EVEN SLOW PACED.... BORING FILMS. YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS TO GIVE A COMMENT BUT IT DOESNT MEAN YOUR CORRECT . FOR YOU THIS MOVIE IS TWO THUMBS DOWN , BUT FOR OTHERS ITS A FILM THEY WATCHED AND LIFE GOES ON. EVERYONE IS HIS OWN CRITIQUE.
The movie has a mistake at the ending. If Minnie is inmune to hypnotics, like it says in her profile, the she must have saw thru the villain deception. I think the movie premise is interesting, maybe it could be better played. At least is better than Infinitize..😅
Look I can see how this movie would be enjoyed by kids. Kids don't really need all the elements that make a good film for them to enjoy it. But this is rated a 15, and most people above that age would probably be able to identify a lot of the flaws in this film; which make it bad. Like how there's no degree of subtly and the dialogue is about as flavourful as water. Being a teenager now, I hate this. But if I was younger, I probably would have liked it.
Other than Mr Ben Affleck, who I think made the best SuperHero - William Fichtner got me thinking though! 🤔Like, wasn't he 'The Sheriff' in Invasion (TV series) Kind of a 'low-budget' B grade feel. The feeling you had like "there's a lot more" made me chuckle !😉😊
It wasn’t as bad as people make it out to be. It was just a little overly ambitious and had too much going on. they wanted it to be a mind bender but they did one, two, many twist resulting in confusing the audience.
One of the few times I really disagree with your opinion regarding Ben Affleck, I think he is a terrible actor, his voice is grating and he looks like the type of guy that would punch a baby in the face if the baby looked at him wrong. He is good behind the Camera though.
YES!! Totally inception at one point. It was just...strange. Really needed to not hold the twist for so long but bring it forward...a lot....and then make the movie all about finding a way to solve the issue. Rather than the premise of the movie changing every 20 minutes. Strangely...I watched Werewolf fro 2016 and that budget, and somewhat slow and boring movie, was far more interesting than this tripe
I‘m 17 minutes in and already at the point of turning it off. Starting a movie with a man just looking at people and being able to hypnotize them instantly is probably the dumbest way to get people interested in the rest of the story. That alone lets me turn it off now. Not investing 2 hours of my life into this dumb movie.
If they had stuck with the noir sci-fi thriller they started with, with a troubled cop searching for this potential telepath where the protagonist cant trust anything he sees or hears, that could have been really cool. Buuuuut they literally just tossed it out the window and opted for the most contrived wanna be Christopher Nolan love letter I've ever seen. What a joke of a movie.
Im glad theres people that enjoyed it. Wasmt for me though. I jist feel liek the powers were so under explained especially how they worked against each other. If thr kittle girl was so powerful how did the villian dude trick them into seeing him die when it was really the "grandfather" guy?
I swear this movie gave off "Fallen" vibes with actor Denzel Washington. Except Fallen was wayyyyy better. Even down to the name "Mick" ...a character name both movies have. I was just waiting for the song to play..."Tiiiiimmme, is on my side! Yes it is!"
This movie, like the movie two years ago with the same name "Hypnotic", is not too good. The use of Hypnotism can be interesting, but if you can hypnotize anyone in the flash of a second and even make people do anything you want, then any plot would start to get ridiculous. If you could replace and implant memories, and even create completely fake realities like in this film, it is no longer hypnotism but rather complete mind control. Anyone with one-tenth of the powers shown in this movie could easily control the entire world. With this basically nonsensical premise, any plot cannot help being ridiculous. By comparison, terminators are far more believable.
That’s what I’m saying they should’ve explained it better. Could they only control people they can see or can they control people even if they can’t see them.
I think the selling point of this movie is Ben Affleck looks like he’s in very good shape. He’s all chiseled and kind of posing a lot. I mean, I think Jennifer Lopez was into the movie just because Benny was so handsome in it.
I don’t want just to shit on Hypnotic, but wow…the cast is great, the idea is intriguing but it’s a poorly executed exposition dump of a film ( that is probably also limited by being made right after/during COVID) with some of the worst film score (real tv movie of the week stock score)I have ever experienced. It appears the score was produced by a relative of Rodriguez, so the cherry on top is….you guessed it….nepotism.
This movie shows two things, first it shows how good Christopher Nolan really is, i can only imagine how good this movie would be if directed by him, because the ID behind it is amazing. Second, writing is so essential, that even with those top actors you cant have a fluid dialog. I really wanted to enjoy it, but was just silly, and that in the end comes to the Director that should stick to what he is good at, kids movies and hack and slash stuff.
This felt like the most faithful comic book adaptation ever. Only problem is it’s an original screenplay. Way too much exposition and an ending they had to fully explain to the viewer. Not a good movie in any sense, but certainly watchable.
What is the best RECENT Ben Affleck performance?
More than acting, I really enjoyed his performance as a director for Air. Loved that movie! I'm also in the minority which loves him as Bruce Wayne, so looking forward to seeing him in Flash, probably for the last time.
directing AIR
This isn’t recent. But the town is so awesome and he’s really good in it
The last thing that Ben Affleck was really good in was The Way Back. It’s more or less a paint by numbers sports drama, but I think it hit all the right notes and Affleck was really compelling in it (possibly due to his personal connection to the character)
Love Air
Hypnotic is kind of movie Nic Cage would have made 20 years ago. It was like watching Ben Affleck in Nic Cage movie.
To me it was an end-of-career Bruce Willis straight-to-Vudu. I honestly can't figure out how Affleck got roped into this.
😂😂😂😂
Think I’ll just re-watch Air and skip this.
That’s a good call
My goodness AIR was so good, Affleck is such a talented director
Rewatching Air = not a bad call
Was I the only one that actually liked this movie a lot?
@Mintberry Crunch No, I liked it a lot too.
This films good 👍
I liked it a lot too. It just seems like most who don’t like it don’t understand or didn’t fully pay attention.
I LOVED IT!!!
nah, it was good,
I don't get why people didn't like this movie i watched it, i payed attention and i enjoyed so much. Just theorising while watching made me enjoy.
Goofy suits for the main villains, pointless MCU wannabe after credits, tons of lazy exposition, stale acting from Ben Affleck, lack of tension in a thriller film, it goes on forever
You SUPPORT the concept of me a woman should have the power to dictate to you what you not only say, do, believe, remember, think even FEEL?
Are you serious?
Perhaps Gloria Steinem is right after-all, and we’ve selectively I’ll-bred and programmed you ‘feminised’ men into being ‘too weak and stupid masochists to live’.
Please do as the movie wants. Even we anti-feminist women don’t want even our daughters exposed to an entire group of people so pathetic, useless, inferior, NO pride, self respect, value, importance even dignity in death as anything but negative role models.
The idea is great , some scene are nice but all is rushed , montage is horrible , some scene make no sense .
The movie borrowed heavily from The Thirteenth Floor with Gretchen Mol. Only that movie had better acting, and also Gretchen Mol.
I actually really enjoyed this movie! It wasn't perfect and I get the complaints, but I thought the premise and the way they pulled it off were really cool
Disagree with you on this one. I thought this and Guardians Vol. 3 have been the best of 2023 so far and better than many of the Oscar movies last year. Sometimes I think movies are too subjective for reviews and awards. Keep up the good work!
this was indeed a godd movie. It was like Inception mixed with Shutter Island.
What a twist! What a twist! What a twist! What a twist! What a twist! What a twist! What a twist! What a twist!
Was there a twist?
I think you missed the point of the film. Everything you criticise is deliberate and done tongue in cheek. From the 90s b movie sound track to Ben Affleck doing a brilliant impersonation of Steven Segal to the exposition. It is hilarious and only works because it is played with a straight face. This is the film inception and tenet could have been if they weren't so poefaced and at 93 minutes there is no dead wood. Marvel could learn lots from Rodriguez. Most enjoyable film of the year a total triumph and a work of genius you just need to be in on the joke. Love on ya.
I actually liked this movie! The first 30 minutes or so, I thought it was just beginning to be a poorly written movie. However, the twists were good in my opinion. Yeah, it can leave have you very confused at times, but overall a decent movie. It's not on par with Inception, but I think many would enjoy it.
Please read comments.
Please never have sons or faughters.
Any men so self hating, masochistic.
There may be only one thing we anti-feminist female scientists agree with Gloria Steinem and NOW regarding, perhaps we have sadistically dominated to do badly you men are too weak and stupid to tolerate, no let live, anymore.
You are why the SCUM Manifesto is not only Curriculum in universities now, soon the core of ‘toxic masculinity’ already official public school policy today.
Your masichism is truly horrifying and we non-feminist women would not want our kids to know your like.
Sons or daughters.😱
This feels a lot like inception and is like a second movie dealing with the mind in another way, sort of like how split and unbreakable connect to each other
I just watched it and thought it was actually pretty interesting
I liked the part when they were on the backlot of troublemaker studios and reliving the beginning of the movie.
SPOILER WARNING
Not a bad movie, but not a timeless classic either. I think a lot of people don’t like this movie because they either didn’t pay complete attention or they were distracted on their phones. Either one of these would cause people to not understand the movie. These are my thoughts on the film.
If you rearrange all of the letters of Lev Dellrayne you will spell out Deer Valley Ln. Rourke hid the meaning of Find Lev Dellrayne so well that he forgot the original meaning and that is why it took him 13 tries to remember.
Yes the dialogue can be eye rolling at times and feel fake, unnatural, and or bad. Then again you could say everyone Rourke is interacting with is fake and pretending to be someone they really aren’t so perhaps it’s the other characters not being able to hold up the facade well even if they’ve all acted out the story numerous times. There are a couple of parts where I was sitting back thinking yeah that wouldn’t happen. The part where the man is sitting on the couch with a sawed of shotgun in Mexico and asks who is at the door in English. 100% he would have asked in Spanish. The part where the hacker is able to decrypt a police database in a matter of seconds. Where is the electricity coming from for him to use such a piece of equipment and it’s too fast to be reality. The part where they go to a jail facility and there is no staff. Then again when I think about it, it all goes back to everyone not holding up the facade well.
I know alot of people complain with how Rourke behaves throughout the film. People say he should be more animated at certain parts, but I believe Rourke acts the way he does because he is so sad, so guilt ridden that he just doesn’t have any happiness left in him.
Imagine if your daughter was kidnapped because you took your eyes off of her for a moment and you didn’t know if she was dead or alive for three years and you finally found her, part of you might think it’s not real it’s just a dream and you don’t want to get excited for no reason.
All in all I liked this movie despite what people say. It’s definitely worth a watch. Personally I would wait to stream it because most movie theaters nowadays are garbage and aren’t worth the money.
This is a very cool concept that was given so fucking little space to breathe, feels like it actually would've been better as a 10 episode TV show where it could set up it's dominoes (😉) properly
I agree definitely better as a series a bit like Westworld where you think wtf is going on.
@@007kash007 exactly! It's got a lot of episode ending cliff hanger reveals built in to it anyway
I like the movie. It felt like Inception.
A shittier version of it (personally)
Honestly it was one of those movies where it was so poor that it gave me slight enjoyment. Diet inception is the best way to describe this movie.
This was better than Inception. I could not follow Inception. I could follow this.
haha yes same here! I was actually laughing out loud at how bad it was
@@tonyg76Inception is not hard to follow. This was good as well.
@@AnointedFlow Oh, but it is for some. None of my family could follow it.
@@tonyg76 then mind bending movies might not be your thing. I'm a dreamer and understand levels of dreams as well as the mental state and scenarios. So this was excellent for me and my wife. It just wasn't for you folks.
I really liked the trailer and I was looking forward to this. It's such a bummer that it is not great.Anyway Austin thank you for saving my time
Seriously dude you thought that garbage Peter Pan remarke was okay and though this was a mess, it's masterpiece compared to that
The trailer looked like it came straight out of 2012 trying to capitalize off of inception but failing hard .
Lol
I was watching halfway and just couldn't take it. Then I searched TH-cam to check if it's only me and I found this video. I totally agree with this!
same here
Hypnotic was fucking amazing you actually have to have a concept self-consciousness to really understand out of body experiences and whatnot
I saw it today and really liked it. Its not messy to me, that being said i hated inception and tenet
That’s a shame because the concept seems so cool and I’m a fan of Rodriguez usually. (Excluding spy kids)
It's not an oscar winning movie but it's definitely worth a watch 👌
If I didn't subscribe to your channel I wouldn't know about this movie either. Weird non-marketing 😅
Haha I barely knew!
I forgot this movie existed and can't believe Robert Rodriguez directed this
Well, 7/10 for me.
Today, the good movies seem to be more complex, so that you have to watch them more than once & actually put your phone down & pay attention. If you watch Hypnotic 2xs,youll pick up a lot you didn't the 1st time.
This was a good movie. If you don't like mindbending movies then this might not be your kind of movie. I don't see how anyone can call this dumb just because it is heavy in the mindbending element. The twists and turns are pretty well written. It was like a Shutter Island, Inception mix. I would like to see this have some kind of contiuation via show or movie.
i don´t want to be rude or sarcastic so i will counter your opinion with my opinion because of this statement. (I don't see how anyone can call this dumb just because it is heavy in the mindbending element) .the movie is dumb in my opinion because of a crucial paradox that i will now explain. The Procedure (the 13th try of the procedure) is like all other procedures to monitor his behavior. that means he is in main focus all the time with 100ts of eyes fallowing every step he is taking during the bank robbery but somehow he manage to jump in a van and escape. one can argue of course that everyone has been hypnotized by Rourke but why showing the surprise of everyone when they can`t find him. this is among other things is a dumb writing mistake that is easy spotted especially if the movie is compared to Inception or shutter island where this movie pics the ideas from.
@@styxinclouds4747 as you said, he could have done a hypnotic suggestion at that one moment.
I don't mind mindbending movies but the script is just awefull. This movie was full of plot armor and it did not make sense in any way. Just a horrible movie, I had to laugh trough the entire movie with my date. We watched it randomly.
I didn't like that movie. Made no sense to me. I got the idea behind it and it's arguably a good concept but it was so poorly executed that it became unwatchable. If you like mind-bending movies, I would recommend watching Inception and skipping this one.
This movie had a great idea and that’s it. Zero chemistry between Ben and family. Was he on drugs during the scenes? Does he secretly hate his movie family, there was nothing between them. The stupid comic book outfits of the bad guys. And the end! Spoiler alert, all 30 of the bad guys get blasted by a shotgun in front of the family and they are just hanging out and relaxing and looking at the scene like they were watching a pretty sunset. My wife and I want our 4.99$ back
Austin will you be reviewing blackberry and fools paradise?
Probably not on the channel, but I’ll try to watch them soon-ish!
What's really funny is that this movie wrapped before he even started preproduction on Air. Robert Rodriguez's fault 100%
if u use your brain more, youll love this movie.
Me and my friends had a good time, it was so dumb but also entertaining at the same time 😂
If I watched this on acid or mushrooms. I’d like it more. Not tripping I thought it was stupid. Ben affleck also gave me strong Bruce Willis vibes the entire time.
Spoilers ahead:
I think there was three main things that bugged me about this movie:
1. The first half becomes completely irrelevant after the big reveal.
2. There were so many situations where the "evil hypnotic guy" could have just been shot, but they didn't. If a guy can literally make you kill yourself by looking at you and he is just standing there while you have a gun, why would you not shoot?
3. Why did the Division never attempt to "recreate Project Domino"? They have an entire department full of hypnotic people. Why settle for one super hypnotic when you can have several?
I agree with you on the first one, but obviously it was needed for the plot twist so we could see it wasn’t real. So i don’t get why that bothers you lol.
2. He didnt kill him because he thought the guy knew where his daughter is. Since he found the picture. His memory was obviously wiped than. Why would he shoot his only lead. He also wasn’t affected by the guy’s hypnosis until the phone call.
3. The daughter was born a super hypnotic because her parents are 2 powerful hypnotics. they said that in the movie. Its not like she just spawned out of a lab. She became project domino because they wanted to use her as a weapon. They can’t just endlessly make more like her because the other hypnotics are not that strong to birth a super version.
All these things were pretty obvious so either you didn’t pay attention or just complain a lot
@stacherywelles4017
2. He was being affected by the evil guy's power long before phone call (maybe not full body control, but a lot of perception alteration), not to mention he had already brainwashed two other cops and his partner into mindless weapons. As for him being the only lead to his daughter l, he'd most likely have a phone on him that they could have used to glean some info off of, but it's honestly way to big a risk to have some that dangerous running around.
3. They... could just have them bang again? I mean, they have the two parents, with the mother believing she's on their side, so they could just recreate the night they conceived their first daughter or something and birth another. Or have him impregnate a bunch of the women hypnotics at the organization so they have a higher quantity of possible Dominio 2.0s. In science, you don't just have one success and call it a day, you run multiple tests.
There was a fight in the Letterboxd chat while you were editing this Austin amirite
To be honest it was better than I thought because I was like oh finally Ben doing action movie. Plus soooooo many references to real life it made it high!
Maybe my low expectations succeeded.
Good review. I reacted the same. The end felt tossed together quickly. I was snapped out of my "suspension of disbelief" by the characters' casual indifference to what they were doing, and had done, and the future they might be facing as a result.
you can't enjoy this film if you don't buy into an idea of "hypnotics"/ability to alter your perception of reality. If it comes as silly to you, the whole movie becomes silly. But if you do, you can enjoy it quite a lot. The whole idea is derived from Yoga practice called Pratyahara, where you are basically trained to be in control over your sensory inputs with the goal to shut them all down, to be able to proceed into the next stage. Once you are in control of your own sensory inputs, you can develop the power of controlling sensory inputs and perceptions of others (classic example: snake changes into a rope, yogi climbs the rope and disappears in the sky). those are not fantasy stories, this is real. Yogi is in control of your senses (just for the show and for the money), because he is in control of his senses.
in this film, this potential is way exaggerated of course, but the base is real. therefore, I enjoyed, until the last scene, where they actually killed a lot of people and said - now we are free. that was too much for my stomach to digest, because this is not how freedom works. all the rest can potentially work as showed. only it has nothing to do with hypnoses, the whole mechanism is very different.
the first half was good
the sec half lame confusing and boring
This movie is Inception, Shutter Island and Paycheck had a baby.
It was a cool concept on paper but horribly executed. And just gets wack in the 3rd act and that final monologue from affleck was so forced and horribly written. Tons of plot holes to
Holy cow, Ben Affleck is like 80 years old.
This was one of the worst movies I’ve maybe ever seen 😭
Glad you liked it more than me
Completely unearned twists. Wants to be like inception, actually a lot more like now you see me. It wastes a lot of time on things that don't matter at all, but then in the end you're kind of supposed to take some things as true and ignore others that have the same validity
Well I loved this movie and so many other people did too so yeah 😇😣
@@lilziro1662 I’m glad u liked it 👌
Rodriguez tried to make Inception , but the story and acting were not that great (I blame the director on this one).
Just cheesy. So many twists that it was over complicated compared to the plot.
Worth a watch at home, but not theater worthy. IMO.
It should’ve been a show with more explanation and plot. I like its different to what we’re getting now. I do think it’s a copy of inception but with way too much in it and it comes so fast at the end which is the most underwhelming ending ever.
Edit: but I like it I didn’t see it in the cinema it’s a interesting movie to watch if your bored and want something interesting.
1980s Good B movie at best... if they just spent a little bit more money on the effects of hypnotic this movie would have been bad ass if it was like Christopher Nolan scale but the budget wasn't in this movie I can tell
Yeah budget is rough for sure
I didn't get the ending when Diana was blind folded and Danny was wearing a mask.
Just s suggestion. U can add points for sound design as well.. for home theatre lovers😍
Yeah, I liked the movie better when the hypnotic guy was the villain for being the hypnotic, not the leader of the clandestine organization.
Me and my boyfriend were very happy with this idk I think it’s getting a lot of unnecessary hate lol
I love Robert Rodriguez so much, Sin City, From Dusk Till Dawn, Planet Terror. But this film was disappointing, I didn’t think this film was awful. But it didn’t feel like the Rodriguez I know
What happened at the end when Ben is questioning his wife in the room with the red mask on. Is that part of the reality or what?
I just watched it and got totally confused at the end...but all in all the was a fun movie
I think this movie was to short for what they wanted to do with it, it lacks the character development and world building that you expect from this kind of movies. It has to much of exposition dialogue instead of cool scenes were viewer gets to figure out what is happening him self and that kills the immersion aspect.
Kept me watching..🙂
Had some jedi mind tricking....inceptioning....and Scanners-ing
----had some good action and twists😃🤙
I loved Tenet because it was still a well shot film with a lot of scenes of interest and you never really had to understand it to enjoy it versus HYPNOTIC doing something that made me feel like "it should be good, I don't really get this film, am I not understanding it?"
I really don't like questioning a film too much and wondering how movies with great actors become such duds because the trailer really intrigued me but the movie fell short of its potential
Ur breakdown is more confusing than the movie great movie guys go see it
Lmao
AKA “I disagree with you so I’m gonna say something mean in the comments”
Typical
I was cool until they had to explain the last of it for the movie to end.
It would have been a different movie if Chris Nolan would have been the director. Mark my words
Micah 4:5 5 All the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
Where did you get the movie cause I started it then the files were missing all of a sudden..I downloaded mine.want to finish it
MOVIE IS LIKE FOOD ITS A ACQUIRED TASTE. MOVIE HAVE DIFFERENT GENRE. PEOPLE IS INTO ACTION, HORROR OR THILLER OR EVEN SLOW PACED.... BORING FILMS. YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS TO GIVE A COMMENT BUT IT DOESNT MEAN YOUR CORRECT . FOR YOU THIS MOVIE IS TWO THUMBS DOWN , BUT FOR OTHERS ITS A FILM THEY WATCHED AND LIFE GOES ON. EVERYONE IS HIS OWN CRITIQUE.
The movie has a mistake at the ending. If Minnie is inmune to hypnotics, like it says in her profile, the she must have saw thru the villain deception.
I think the movie premise is interesting, maybe it could be better played.
At least is better than Infinitize..😅
The ending when they started explaining the plot and back story before ending with "now we're free" made my soul cringe
Look I can see how this movie would be enjoyed by kids. Kids don't really need all the elements that make a good film for them to enjoy it. But this is rated a 15, and most people above that age would probably be able to identify a lot of the flaws in this film; which make it bad. Like how there's no degree of subtly and the dialogue is about as flavourful as water.
Being a teenager now, I hate this. But if I was younger, I probably would have liked it.
Other than Mr Ben Affleck, who I think made the best SuperHero - William Fichtner got me thinking though! 🤔Like, wasn't he 'The Sheriff' in Invasion (TV series) Kind of a 'low-budget' B grade feel. The feeling you had like "there's a lot more" made me chuckle !😉😊
It wasn’t as bad as people make it out to be. It was just a little overly ambitious and had too much going on. they wanted it to be a mind bender but they did one, two, many twist resulting in confusing the audience.
This was the worst movie I've seen all year
It was a regular boring Affleck movie. The only movie I really liked with him was the accountant
One of the few times I really disagree with your opinion regarding Ben Affleck, I think he is a terrible actor, his voice is grating and he looks like the type of guy that would punch a baby in the face if the baby looked at him wrong. He is good behind the Camera though.
I quite enjoyed it, of course there were a lot holes but it was pretty enjoyable.
This movie is great and has good storyline..
But it falls apart in the end.
It could have been so much better.
Nevertheless I enjoyed it.
YES!! Totally inception at one point. It was just...strange. Really needed to not hold the twist for so long but bring it forward...a lot....and then make the movie all about finding a way to solve the issue. Rather than the premise of the movie changing every 20 minutes.
Strangely...I watched Werewolf fro 2016 and that budget, and somewhat slow and boring movie, was far more interesting than this tripe
it was a joke, i havent even finished it yet, i feel dissappointed with robert rodriguez....booo!!
I‘m 17 minutes in and already at the point of turning it off. Starting a movie with a man just looking at people and being able to hypnotize them instantly is probably the dumbest way to get people interested in the rest of the story. That alone lets me turn it off now. Not investing 2 hours of my life into this dumb movie.
If they had stuck with the noir sci-fi thriller they started with, with a troubled cop searching for this potential telepath where the protagonist cant trust anything he sees or hears, that could have been really cool. Buuuuut they literally just tossed it out the window and opted for the most contrived wanna be Christopher Nolan love letter I've ever seen. What a joke of a movie.
This movie is great, nearly didnt watch it bcos of all the bad reviews , im glad i didnt not watch it. Its awesome with a great twist
Affleck kept givin these extreme Max Payne vibes! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
This movie confused me.. was just .... meh
Im glad theres people that enjoyed it. Wasmt for me though. I jist feel liek the powers were so under explained especially how they worked against each other.
If thr kittle girl was so powerful how did the villian dude trick them into seeing him die when it was really the "grandfather" guy?
I swear this movie gave off "Fallen" vibes with actor Denzel Washington. Except Fallen was wayyyyy better. Even down to the name "Mick" ...a character name both movies have. I was just waiting for the song to play..."Tiiiiimmme, is on my side! Yes it is!"
The 1st hour I wanted to leave bt after climax its ok though
The ending made me mad!!! Too many switches
last 5 min of the movie was good. this movie could be explained in 2min.
It was a made for TV style movie but worse. It sucked in a vicious manner.
This movie, like the movie two years ago with the same name "Hypnotic", is not too good. The use of Hypnotism can be interesting, but if you can hypnotize anyone in the flash of a second and even make people do anything you want, then any plot would start to get ridiculous. If you could replace and implant memories, and even create completely fake realities like in this film, it is no longer hypnotism but rather complete mind control. Anyone with one-tenth of the powers shown in this movie could easily control the entire world. With this basically nonsensical premise, any plot cannot help being ridiculous. By comparison, terminators are far more believable.
That’s what I’m saying they should’ve explained it better. Could they only control people they can see or can they control people even if they can’t see them.
The only thing i was wondering during this hour and half nightmare was: why the red vests ?
This is pathetic for rodrigez to be honest.
There was a lot of red symbolism
I think the selling point of this movie is Ben Affleck looks like he’s in very good shape. He’s all chiseled and kind of posing a lot. I mean, I think Jennifer Lopez was into the movie just because Benny was so handsome in it.
Bad acting, bad writing, bad directing, just a plain bad movie. I couldn't finish it cuz it sucked so bad.
Honestly, no movie or show will ever beat hop
Loved itttt
Absolutely horrible movie: the underlying plot, including the hypnotics, is just too absurd to allow an audience to suspend disbelief.
I don’t want just to shit on Hypnotic, but wow…the cast is great, the idea is intriguing but it’s a poorly executed exposition dump of a film ( that is probably also limited by being made right after/during COVID) with some of the worst film score (real tv movie of the week stock score)I have ever experienced. It appears the score was produced by a relative of Rodriguez, so the cherry on top is….you guessed it….nepotism.
This movie shows two things, first it shows how good Christopher Nolan really is, i can only imagine how good this movie would be if directed by him, because the ID behind it is amazing. Second, writing is so essential, that even with those top actors you cant have a fluid dialog. I really wanted to enjoy it, but was just silly, and that in the end comes to the Director that should stick to what he is good at, kids movies and hack and slash stuff.
This felt like the most faithful comic book adaptation ever. Only problem is it’s an original screenplay. Way too much exposition and an ending they had to fully explain to the viewer. Not a good movie in any sense, but certainly watchable.
Who cares who liked the movie or not we love it and we know it everyone’s gonna jump on the bandwagon soon just like what happened with interstellar
I’ve watched almost every release in theaters this year, and i can honestly say this is the worst movie I’ve seen all year