Glucedee
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
Michael Ledo
The film opens with a teaser of a girl locked in a wooden box meeting her surmise.Jessie (Kirby Bliss Blanton) discovers her boyfriend (Markos Zepeda) is cheating on her. She meets Kim (Rachel DiPillo) as they hit it off and she becomes her new BFF. They opt to go dancing and drag along Jessie's brother Miles (Alex Shaffer) and her new first choice for a boyfriend Logan Barlow (Samuel Larsen). Kim hurriedly leaves the dance as I discover an unadvertised use for a smartphone. Kim gets Jessie's phone in a mix-up. Miles is a techno-weenie and they track the phone with a recovery app (see title). Jessie needs the phone because it has "more dirt on me than anything I know." They end up at the house where we saw the opening teaser where I still have trouble believing a house where people can constantly sneak around unnoticed.This is another capture, fight, and chain film. If you are young and can identify with the on-line social networking and with Jessie, this should make for a great film. For the rest of us, maybe 3 stars. Some humor mixed into the dialogue to keep it from getting dry.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. High School drinking.
marcwiechmann
Oh man, I wanted to like this movie, I wanted it so much. The beginning was really, really promising. I got immediately interested in the characters and really wanted to know, what's going here. The actress of "Kim" is smoking hot, the actor of the "father" was really good, and I liked the nice little Sepia look of the start.Too bad for me, because what is going on, will never be explained to any of us.After very good two minutes (really, a dream start for every movie), this movie got cheesy, superficial and meaningless, not to say boring. The formula was visible at all times. There were some moments when I still hoped the movie will get back on line, but well, what can I say - you see my 3 star rating.You see the pretty boy - you know he will die. This is not even a spoiler, it's just maths. You meet the pretty girl and know immediately something cannot be right. You see the smart ass brother and know he will survive. You see the house and have to wonder, why anyone should freely walk in there - or stay there, after finding the first strange and disturbing things.But noooooo....The main character was terribly annoying and way to "superior". Always cool, never panicking, seeing horrible stuff and still making jokes, tricking the bad guy with psychic manipulation within 20 seconds, and of course fighting like a trained MMA fighter. Absolutely with a funny oneliner on her lips in life endangering situations.Ridiculous.What did the family want? Why did they do, what they do? The most interesting and important part of the movie, but nothing gets explained or even shown. We just know okay, they do what they do. Why? Who cares, am I right? Basically the villains get 10 minutes screen time.Until half of the movie I was still hoping something would happen. Once it passed the 45 minute mark I knew the 2nd half will be awful. And sadly I was right.The ending was like the biggest letdown ever. It was illogical, it was stupid, and worst, it closed the circle to the beginning - from which we still don't know any meaning at all. So you are left with a really low movie, with horrible dialogues, mostly bad acting besides one or two exceptions ("father", "kim", "mother") and a terrible plot, where basically nothing happens.This is also no horror movie, in the best case this is a thriller.And not a good on.Skip it.
lightlikecoolwhip
I liked the opening scene. It had a lot of potential and the plot summary had me hooked. Still, I didn't expect anything great, but it was released in 2016 so I figured it would at least be a B-movie quality. I've seen better produced movies on the Lifetime channel. The actors were so awful. They bumbled around and had really strange reactions to things. The plot didn't flow at all, any tension that could have been built was thrown away by extremely amateur actors and dialogue. The action made no sense and the actors just kind of awkwardly played around with each other during "fight" scenes. Very poorly edited and ridiculous script. The most clumsy and incompetent movie I've seen in a very long time.
causednomad
After the first few minutes (right until the opening credits), I actually called my wife to "come and not miss this one because it seems great". Fortunately for her, she did not have time.The build up with the annoying and extremely shallow teenage characters is just too long and it is almost impossible to empathize with any of them. So you will be indifferent (if not happy), when they are being murdered. That is if you can follow the scenes and figure out who is hitting whom with what.In conclusion, all you will find in this one is poor writing and poor direction. I would not recommend this to anyone at all. 3 stars just for the opening sequence.
