Post by Vits on Jun 3, 2019 11:04:21 GMT
From the beginning, it was clear that UNFRIENDED had a supernatural villain. UNFRIENDED PART 2: DARK WEB cleverly plays with that idea by making the antagonist ambiguous for most of the running time. The audience wonders if we're once again dealing with a ghost (or something like that) or incredibly skillful hackers. There are enough clues to make either option believable. Is that enough to say that this sequel is better? No, I'm afraid that kind of unpredictability needs to amount to something that's worth the running time.
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It's eventually revealed that they are hackers, but it's hard to buy their existence. No matter the resources and number of members in your circle, there's no way to do/know all these things. At least not that fast. You'd think that their borderline omnipresence would make DAMON HORTON (one of the protagonist's friends) realize that he shouldn't reveal the trap he's setting for them (recording their activity and printing coordinates that will help the police locate their victims), but he stupidly does so. When the movie is about to end, it's revealed that the hackers set a trap too. Before the movie even started, the main characters had been randomly(?) chosen to be framed for crimes they didn't commit. They're all psychologically tortured and killed. It's not tragic; it's meanspirited and empty. The main characters of the original suffered the same fate, but the context was different. They were responsible for the ghost's death, so seeing their downspiral made for good drama.
The "computer screen point of view" format is still being used well as a tension tool, although the "The bubble with the 3 dots appears and then disappears, meaning that the person on the other end of the chat began writing a message but changed their mind" thing gets repetitive. The performances are OK, except for Colin Woodell's, which is hit-or-miss. MATIAS O'BRIEN (the protagonist) is told by AMAYA DESOTO (his deaf girlfriend) that at times it's hard to read his lips and that it's better for him to send her messages. He claims that he makes an effort to communicate with her... even though his mouth repeatedly goes out of the webcam's frame.-------------------------------------
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