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The acting is terrible. The story is ridiculous. Even the kill shots defy logic (unless they are using magic bullets, ammo doesn't go through helmets and stomach shots aren't instantly fatal, especially when one is--theoretically--wearing bullet-proof vests). Some of the cinematography is good (hard to mess up these wintry locales) but the film is just bad. John Voight is basically a parody of himself. The "twist" at the end is more humorous than shocking. This feels like moments from better films were stolen and pressed into one incoherent mess of a film. I recommend you avoid this one. Watch something else. Anything else.

This is a short film. 1 hour and 12 minutes. However, maybe 45 minutes of material is included with a whole lot of unnecessary repetitions. At one point, the main character said, "To recap" and repeated the material we'd seen twice (from the 2 cameras.) The acting is dreadful, the script (if there was one) was meandering, uninteresting, unbelievable, and repetitive. One star for that damn black piece of fabric moving in a cool way but it was not work the other hour and eleven minutes of the worst movie I've ever seen. Honestly, I almost turned it off. I should have.

The only mystery here is how films like this get made and picked up by any streaming service.

Open 24 Hours starts out promisingly. It has a decent premise: Mary, a woman who was recently released from prison for setting fire to a house with herself and her boyfriend inside; boyfriend was a serial killer and was seriously injured--and scarred--by the fire but ended up in jail for the 35 people he killed. Mary has visions/daymares and is struggling to just exist. She gets a job at a gas station. Things go from wrong to hellscape. The acting is not bad. The biggest problem: in the last half hour or so, the film devolves into a standard gore fest. It's a shame that it didn't live up to its promise of being something different. I don't know if Padraig Reynolds (who wrote and directed) ran out of ideas or if this was his original intention. Open 24 Hours could have been so much more; so much better.