Let's Be Evil (2016)
4/10
Visually interesting but poor in story and casting
2 April 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Let's Be Evil contains very good ideas but bad developed. The main feature of the movie is that is shot in first person perspective, through the special glasses that the company give to everyone. Another thing that I really enjoyed are the visual effects and the lightning. Being a fan of the cyberpunk culture this is the only thing that I really liked.

There's not much to say about the story: a group of people that has financial problem accept a job offer from a mysterious company to look after a bunch of high skilled kids that have been chosen for a new fast learning program. All the structure is managed by an artificial intelligence named Arial. At a certain point, you don't even why, kids are turning against the structure, take control of the whole program. The next half of the movie is based on wrong choices by the three tutors, that make everything possible to get themselves killed. The ending then, it's completely no sense: maybe the director wanted to do some kind of social complaint saying that technology make us live in some kind of loop from which we can't escape, but it's not really clear.

The casting choice wasn't really wise. The three main actors are not really good, especially Jenny, the main character, is pretty annoying if you ask me. Darby and Tiggs are completely anonymous: when they have to convey fear or some kind of emotions, they made me laugh instead. Kids are not really scary and apart from a few jumpscares, which I personally hate, there is nothing else.

This movie could have been nice: I really liked the idea to shot it for the whole time with the alternate first person persective of the three tutors, but that's it. I don't even know which genre is it, because for sure this is not an horror movie.
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