Review by samemckee

Completely devoid of originality. At any given scene in the movie you can tell which movie they're trying to rip off (although it's mostly copying The Ring and it Follows) so the tone of the film is completely schizophrenic with no consistent style or personality of its own.

It also doesn't help that the only "original" scare of the movie boils down to "hey that person suddenly has a derpy smile" (which comes off as humorous most of the time) There's also jumpscares. LOTS of jumpscares. None of them feel impactful or shocking at all, but at least there's a lot of them.

But the biggest crux of this movie is its characters. There are none. Smile's idea of "character development" is either giving a character a funny one-liner and cutting away immediately; or giving a character a dead relative that they feel sad about. Halfway through the movie, my family tried to name a single character trait from any of the characters. We couldn't come up with a single one. It's hard to feel scared of a movie when you don't care if any of the characters live or die.

Without the marketing budget and the INSANE amount of praise this movie is getting, this would be another Truth or Dare.

I promise every person reading this review will forget this movie existed after 6 months.