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I couldn't even get through it. I abandoned it halfway through because my entire nervous system was on edge due to the terrible score and other weird sound effects that kept happening. In fact, the opening sequence with an incessantly ticking clock was so disturbing that I started wondering... is something wrong in my house? It goes on WAY too long to be effective and instead makes the viewer feel disoriented right from the jump.

Not only is the music disjointed, overly loud and intrusive to the dialogue, and grating -- but the acting is not great either. Most of it is the type of acting where you feel like, "I'm watching these people act" vs. "This is a story about... (the characters)." At no point could I forget that I was watching Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and others. I kept waiting for someone to say, "Cut!" -- I never felt immersed in a story.

I tried to continue watching because the scenery was visually interesting (and the actors look good), but I began to feel my life force slipping away, being wasted on such dross. There are only so many hours in one's life -- why waste them on a terrible movie.

There wasn't even a compelling story in here. Just a regular story about sexual assault and accusations of sexual assault. Unfortunately this issue has been present in our society since before society began. I'm not saying it doesn't matter on an individual level or even a societal one -- just that THIS story adds nothing interesting to the conversation at all.

An unfortunate waste of talent -- particularly Andrew Garfield. I usually really like him. He's probably the best actor of the bunch in this one, but even he can't save it.

Terrible, dumb story. Awful acting. AWFUL ACTING. Like, every character acts completely different from how a real person would act. I think there's like one good actor in the entire thing -- everyone else is like watching bad community theater. Overacting simple lines and then underacting when the character would be having a meltdown. Example: a guy gets shot in the foot and yells at the guy who shot him as though he had cut in front of him in line at the supermarket, lol.

I watched this because I hadn't seen Amy Smart in anything in a long while, and now I'm thinking the only reason she ever got roles in the 90s was that she was hot. I hate to say that, but her acting is abysmal. She's still a very attractive woman, but in this movie they try to make us buy her as the mom of a young boy, which technically she COULD be, but only if she had a child pretty late in life. They definitely try to pass her off as a woman in her 30s or maybe early 40s, though -- her style of dress, etc. -- but she's not. And I'm speaking as a woman in my mid-50s. It's just kind of cringe.

I suspect this was written by AI, too -- I mean... what is this story?? What was the point? It's really reaching to try and make a movie about a woman who has an airbnb and wonders if one of her multiple guests have taken her hostage. There's no logical reason why she would be running through a mental list of all the people who could have done this to her -- who would do that???? If you were taken hostage, this is not where your mind would go. It's ridiculous.

The music is so dumb throughout and not at all appropriate to the scenes. The f bombs that are edited out are giving "If Lifetime tried to be cool." The ants are disgusting. What even was the point of them? All of the extreme close-ups of everything, including characters' faces and body parts, are gross and weird. Did I mention how bad the acting is??? OMG so bad. And what is with some of the side plots? Particularly the secretly gay guy and all the random weirdness happening in the scenes with him. What the actual...? There's just too much ridiculousness going on.

The final reveal is also just so silly. I had a strong feeling I knew who the culprit was, and of course it turns out to be that person. But the "reason" is so dumb. Like, the dumbest!

And then they try to throw in some weird extra twist at the very end, and cap everything off with a pre-credits art show set to more dumb music. Lol.

I can't believe I watched this in its entirety. That's on me, but you can escape a similar fate. I just may have to rate this as the absolute worst movie I have ever seen. Avoid at all costs!