He Went That Way

Truly original movie with a potential to become a cult classic. Beautifully acted and executed it keeps you on the edge with suspense and almost surrealism. There are so many side stories unfolding including inner complexes and complexities of the two leads and social cultural climate underlying. It sets a wonderfully fresh optics to the road story movies. The Spanky part of the Route 66 till the bitter end deserves honest debate on humans' treatment of animals as well as the entire circus business. This boutique movie proves once again that Jacob Elordi is a real cinematic gem. Zachary Quinto is also a very actor and brilliant again in this movie.

Why is the serial killer always sucking on his thumb? It's weird.. he has no likeable qualities at all.. He is just a terrible character all around. During the entire movie, all that I cared about was seeing that chimp away from that psycho. Come to find out, ol the chimp is a human actor, which makes it even more odd. At this point I'm just writing because I still need 228 characters to write.. What else? The serial killer has about two brain cells. He's a creep. It's a slow burn, I had to skip through some of it. Ok, 80 more characters.. there isn't much left to say, I'm in the middle of the movie and it looks like they might become friends.

I could tell within the first 30 minute that this was written and directed by children who have no experience in real life. I would guess that their parent paid for their film school education, and they have watched a lot of movies, which they assume would give them the ability to make a movie of their own. But there is nothing original or interesting here. Sorry, boys, you failed. Your characters are false, your story is derivative, and the movie doesn't even have any style. It's such a shame that you wasted the efforts of decent actors like Zachary Quinto and Jacob Elordi. Time to give up filmmaking and find a real job. I hear Applebee's is hiring.

Never hearing of this being made and a surprise to see the cast involved, I was definitely disappointed in this watch. The story was very slow, the acting wasn't all there and I don't wanna even talk about Spanky. After a great run in 2023 with "Priscilla" and "Saltburn" I was excited to see the next performance from Jacob Elordi, but this sadly was not one of his best. Leaving Patrick J. Adams to be my favourite part of this film, even with the minor screen time.

I've always been a sucker for crime/thriller films, and after reading the plot summary I was intrigued. But this was very far from a thriller with any suspense, not a single time did I feel nervous for any characters on screen.

Overall probably one of the worst of the entire year and we've just started.

Movies based on true stories always have my preference, certainly if it's about true crime and serial killers. I had never heard about this story before though, so it was a surprise. They probably embellished the whole story a bit so it felt more fiction than non-fiction. I really doubt that it went like this. That said it was pleasant to watch, mostly because of the good acting from Jacob Elordi and Zachary Quinto. The chimpanzee looked a bit fake but overall it was okay. Not a lot of action considering it's about a serial killer, and a rather slow pace, but still good enough due to the good acting.