Dark State

I was hoping for some camp value here because the comparisons to "The Room," plus the very notion of a kind of veiled QAnon-y nutjob conspiracy thriller, did sound pretty hilarious. But this is too endlessly talky in a pedestrian and repetitive way--no matter that what the characters are talking about (however vaguely) is ridiculous--to be much fun. To their credit, the actors hired are professionals. They try to get through this with as much dignity and naturalism as possible, even as they're stuck in the script's Grade Z approximation of Ayn Rand for the disinformation age. But the writing and direction are just hopeless.

Who actually thought this material merited production? It's something your teacher (in a kind mood) might write "Good try! What imagination! B-" on, in a community college Creative Writing 101 course. It's the kind of terrible movie that sounds like it would surely be unintentional laugh riot, but is too much of an amateurish slog to actually sit through. So, only "So bad it's bad," not "good-bad." Too bad.