Unboxed

I watched thirty minutes of this drivel before I could not take any more. I thought that this was supposed to be a horror picture, but the first two deaths were completely boring. The first girl is poisoned with jelly beans and the next one was poisoned by a vape pen.

I knew I wasn't going to like this from the beginning, though. It starts with some "influencer" making a video for her followers and.. yeah, she's as fake as you would expect.

Then we sit through a meeting of what look like professionals who are actually just more millennials planning on how to make other "influencers" "stars."

The main girl (I assume) is talking to her boyfriend and he offers to walk her home and they head off together. Next thing we see, she's walking u her street by herself with no boyfriend to be seen. Excellent continuity editing, right there... /s

She is another so-called "influencer" and we see her getting set up for her next live stream. As time passes, we are shown place cards announcing the upcoming stream in fluttering, cutesy text. The point at which I said enough is enough, though was when the girl started arranging the "gifts" from her sponsors on the table. This was literally a five minute scene of just her moving the same boxes around over and over, all set to a hypnotic, monotonous beat.

The acting is abysmal. The dialog is forced and unnatural. The characters are annoying. The only positive thing I can say about this is that, unlike the rest of what comes out today, this was actually well lit. It's sad when THAT is the highlight of a movie!

If you have no use for anti-social media or the kind of people who do, do yourself a favor and stay far away from this waste of digital film.