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The movie starts with a good vibe, but only for the first 10 minutes. And after that, its a complete chaos. The movie is not finished and need more scenes to be explained.

Pretty awful. Bella Thorne is an unbelievable "Jesus freak" that uses the guise of a habit to run in the drug circles. Maddening and silly. Annoying and cringey.

....if you want to continue with a good mental health. I've never seen such a many bad things together in a film: acting, script, cinematography, directing, editing....all of them extremely bad.

Habit Movie (2021) feels like "that person" at the party that name drops every 30 seconds to impress people, but nobody's impressed, but even worse than that. Really Annoying. Lacking substance. Beyond stupid. The dialogue is truly unbearable. Lack of character. Terrible acting. Pretentious. I could go on, but I think this probably sums it up pretty well.

Honestly, the one star is too generous.

Save your money and your time.

Edit- it's not CAMP, it's CRAP. It is not a cult classic and never will be. I'm suspicious of the couple positive reviews on here, did you actually watch the movie?

I can almost guarantee that this concept was fueled by a weeklong coke binge party in the Hills by the group of friends who are in the movie, who wrote it themselves. The plot is idiotic, nothing is explained or even makes much sense and the actress playing the villain may be the worst acting I've ever seen. Good thing they got some CCP money to make it, probably because they were hot for Bella. Avoid like the plague.

EDIT-I just realized that the CCP money probably came from a relative of the actress who is playing the villain, daddy (or whomever) bought her a movie woohoo! She is laughably terrible.

Me if I see Jesus: yo what up JC!

Bella Thorne as a theosexual. This has to be one of the dumbest movie of this year. I tried very hard to see this movie as a satire, but it's actually just stupid and nonsensical. Most of the time it's Bella Thorne going around saying "I love you jc" pretending to have a thing for Jesus. Ew like what the hell man. It's like watching those ecosexual communities where people try to have sex with nature. It's so gross and most importantly pretentious.

Since Thorne produced this movie, I guess she thought that she was being clever, but she was just being cringe. Her acting along with the rest of the cast were horrible throughout. The dialogues were unbearable to listen to.

Also, the movie tried to create a surreal and sexual atmosphere with the blurry and pink looks of the movie. There were scenes of characters getting high, which added more to the surrealism. I guess this made sense, but it doesn't cover how dumb the movie was.

Overall, it's cringe and annoying to hear Thorne screaming she wanted to do Jesus. Also, I said "I guess" a lot because I had no idea what I was watching. I'll never get in the habit of watching garbages like this. 0.5/10.

I wish there's an option for 'negative zero' on the rating board. Jesus Christ that was bad. No script, poor direction and pacing, impressively bad acting.... Absolutely no talent could be found in this movie. It has zero redeeming qualities. Nothing positive to say. It fails on every aspect.

I had low expectations after seeing Bella Thorne and i thought at least she's fun to look at but damn I never expected this level of BAD. And the religion slander???!?!??? Damn.

There are some things that you regret doing in life, and watching this was one of them.

All the low ratings are proof that the wrong audience has been watching this. It's not going to win any awards, but if you're into trashy, dark, stylistic fun then you're in for a treat with this one. I mean, Bella Thorne in full nun gear screaming "god squad, b*tch!" before shooting someone is like the definition of camp.

This felt like some weird Bella Thorne sex fantasy. Very weird, very trash, cause it was. But little, little bit funny too.

A Hollywood crowd source to fund bellas addiction to attention and substances

Maybe Gavin was in it for something else but come one

What a mess.

Director & writer : We are sexy, we can make movie, yeeeeees !

Result : Beyond S.

Producers : Maybe Its terrible movie but we earned money from hidden adverts also showed half naked girls and we can sell to erotic TV channels.

I have only one question, who was Paris Jackson in this movie? The main character's mom? The female Jesus or the nurse? How can one person play 3 characters? I could go on and on about how pointless and utterly logic less this movie was but that would be a thesis so I just have this one single question which I hope will make people realise what a disaster this movie was.

I'm still trying to find witty and sarcastic humor with this movie...and a purpose. But all I find is chaos with religious memorabilia and boredom. "More is more" is not shocking - it's silly. The only funny part about the movie is the pretentiousness in the act of making it.

This was just horrible. I saw it on the 17th but could not write a review until it released on IMBD. But I can see everyone felt the same way I did about it so no real loss there. Why anyone thought this would make for a good movie is beyond me! I liked the villain and her side kick cowboy but even they could not save this movie. Like I would really believe that everyone wants to jump Thorne's bones, even a priest was just laughable.

I dont know what i watched. I really cant describe, its like a mix match of scenes put together but in a bad way. I know Bella thorne is a good actress, but i cant find her here. Seems like all the people were not told when the cameras were shotting. The colors palette is quite nice though, and bella is strickingly gorgeous to watch, but not here.

I thought this was going a fun movie. It wasn't. In fact it wasn't much of anything. It only got a look because I thought it was going to resemble a favourite film of my wife's. It's colourful, and that's as much good as I can say about it. One to seriously avoid.

Habit is a visual mess of drugs, sex and psychedelia, spread allround in a very experimentally made film about an alternative lifestyle in the number one state of usa, california.its all about californication, where the path to a perfect life takes the easiest turn, namely the downturn spirraled direction. Its a film that loves to prvoce and deems to harras the social correct protocol of life, and religious impertinence is one of the methods to make this film become a commercial hit among the young and restless of the digitalized generation.

Bella thorn, accompanied bytwo other sisters of the'' new age' generation of actresses, does fill this jive of earthbending harrasment with pretty bold and natural acting, and tries their best to make the provocing action look even better than the screenplay and direction does, so a small pluss for their efforts.

Productionwise its a blended mix of films styles, reaching from kubricks a clockwork orange, to the crazy witchhunt of assassination nation, with colourshifts and psychedelic incitions of kaleidocsopical experimantation, filled with a score that will please only the chosen one( not me), using a self narrative way of telling the story, glued together by an editor without a leach, and the edition i viewed did not impress much on the sound quality...(yes, ive checked the sound settings of my system).

So if youre a fainthearted religious person, take a halt before breaking the woes of never watching a silverscreen movie, because its provocative and graphic both physically and spiritually, for the rest its no more than ''you can try it'' movie. For a grumpy old man it becomes a bit to senseless, and i look forward to seeing ms thorne back in a sweet loved by all character in the near future. Snorting and going haywire aint that good for a long careere as an actress.

I stumbled upon the 2021 movie "Habit" by random luck. I must admit that I had never even heard about this movie prior to getting to sit down and watch it. So I wasn't sure what I should be expecting from director Janell Shirtcliff's movie.

The movie's synopsis did, however, seem interesting enough. And I have to say that I initially felt like there could be a potentially enjoyable comedy here.

And while the movie definitely has a colorful and interesting character gallery to offer the audience, I must admit that the movie was just lacking phenomenally in the story department. So writers Libby Mintz and Janell Shirtcliff just didn't manage to deliver a wholesome movie.

The acting in the movie was actually adequate, and especially actress Bella Thorne was standing out in the movie with her performance in the lead part. Just a shame that the actors and actresses that participated in "Habit" didn't have a properly written script to work with.

I managed to endure about an hour of "Habit", then I just couldn't sit through any more of the nonsensical storyline, as writers Libby Mintz and Janell Shirtcliff had be progressively losing me along the way as the movie trotted on and on. And truth be told, then I have absolutely no interest in returning to finish watching the rest of the movie as the storyline just fell short of entertaining me. And while the characters in "Habit" certainly were colorful, I must say that I just don't really care enough about them to want to return and suffer through the rest of the movie.

Ultimately then "Habit" was a movie that had potentially more to offer, but was cut short by an inferior and awkwardly written storyline.

My rating of "Habit" lands on a mere three out of ten stars.

However quickly or slowly one recognizes that the core conceit of 2021's 'Habit' takes a sliver from that of 1992's 'Sister act,' it's fair to say that the two pictures are sufficiently different that points of comparison are minimal and minor, and ultimately kind of irrelevant. And sadly, by way or comparison or not, nearly from the moment one first presses "play" things don't look good for Janell Shirtcliff's feature.

Considered each in and of themselves, most of the fundamental building blocks of the movie are just fine, or even great. The costume design, hair, and makeup are consistently over the top, but I admire the work all the same, and the results range from a little needlessly garish, to outlandish but fun. The sets are very colorful, and are lent a certain faux-retro feel thanks to a vague hazy quality laid over the image. The cast includes several very notable names and faces, and it's a small joy just to see some of them - Andreja Pevic, Hana Mae Lee, Gavin Rossdale, plus Bella Thorne, Ione Skye, Paris Jackson (?!), and more. There are some swell songs selected for the soundtrack, though sometimes the choices just seem entirely too random to be meaningful or useful. The editing and cinematography are, shall we say, excitable, and maybe too much so, but situationally such an approach to these can be quite worthwhile. Some special effects are simply a bit much, but from a rudimentary standpoint of the effort I appreciate what the crew turned in. I would even go so far as to say there are some splendid ideas in the screenplay devised between director Shirtcliff and co-star Libby Mintz.

Unfortunately, the problem is that all these elements are outrageously overcooked - and pointlessly so. 'Habit' has a story to tell, but it is extremely overdone in every last regard simply because it can be, and for no actual reason. There doesn't seem to be one ounce of sincerity to be had here, and that emphatically includes the acting. To whatever degree I'm familiar with those in front of the camera, I either know or trust that they're capable of excellent performances, and would demonstrate it if given the opportunity. We might even see slight glimmers, here, of that capability, like trying to watch a stage play from a distant window with several panes of dirty glass that obscure the real value.

The screenplay might actually be the worst aspect of all. There's no major purpose to the self-proclaimed religiosity of protagonist Mads; supposing that her inner thoughts as expressed through narration might have had worth, that's just not true as written. More broadly, the dialogue, characterizations, and scene writing are likewise wholly overblown - just vacuous rubbish, really. Such a tack is intended to be funny, and one can discern instances of what is supposed to be witty dialogue, situational humor, and sight gags in addition to the highly exaggerated characters and scenes. But it's not funny. With the exception of exactly one laugh that it unexpectedly earns, it's only ever emptily obnoxious, fruitlessly excessive, and desperately scrabbling to inspire so much as a slight smile in any way. (It might come close, a couple times, to exercising one's facial muscles, but that's mostly the best it gets.) I'm unconvinced that there are even cohesive connections between story beats, not least the personal habits and beliefs of Mads that rather get dropped for a large portion of the narrative. Supporting characters (especially Queenie, Tuff, and Sunny) are given the worst writing of all. Once more, I do genuinely think there are some neat ideas to play with. But not like this. Not like this.

I wish nothing but the best for everyone involved. I want to see these actors in more films, and see what they can do when given the chance to spread their wings. I trust that Shirtcliff will grow as a filmmaker and some day will show what she can do, and likewise for Mintz, for whom this represents a first writing credit. I kind of feel bad being so heavily critical of this picture, and I try ever to find the strengths in anything I watch. All the most earnest good will can't cover for the fact that 'Habit' is, regrettably, just not very good. There needed to be wit, intelligence, and intent behind the excess; the screenplay needed to be tightened; much of the rampant indulgences needed to be reined in. There was potential here, but as it stands, this movie just doesn't cut it.

Maybe if this is a humorous and cynical novel, it's good, but not as a film.