Spiderhead
A prisoner in a state-of-the-art penitentiary begins to question the purpose of the emotion-controlling drugs he's testing for a pharmaceutical genius.
- Released: 2022-06-17
- Runtime: 105 minutes
- Genre: Action, Thrillers
- Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Tess Haubrich, BeBe Bettencourt, Angie Miliken, Jane Larkin, Ron Smyck, Joey Vieira, Elke Hinrichsen, Sam Delich, Mark Paguio, Daniel Reader, Ashleigh Lawrence, Stephen Tongun, Rachel Forsyth, Jariah Travan, Regan Sharp, Elliot Chenery, Aykut Karacam, Wyomi Reed, Nathan Jones
- Director: Joseph Kosinski
Comments
- hjvergara - 4 January 2023
Lacks Humor, Cleverness, and Suspense!
From director Joseph Kosinski and actor Miles Teller of "Top Gun: Maverick" fame comes a new Netflix science fiction suspenser: "Spiderhead". It presents quite the thought-provoking premise where criminals choose to participate in a psychological experiment involving the manipulation, alteration, and control of human behaviors in lieu of serving a prison sentence. It is quite the original idea to be sure, and I was very much invested throughout the first 30 minutes until there was an evident lack of wit and a plot that feels redundant and circular.
The movie takes a long time to get to the point and the revelations aren't that stimulating or shocking, but rather expected. Most plot points involving the evolution of the characters are predictable and cringy. Sure, the film delivers the goods from Chris Hemsworth playing a sort of mad scientist and sadist, and Teller is gripping and entertaining as usual, but the themes of mental manipulation, societal control, and genuine feelings and emotions versus those that are falsely created by drug enhancement feel like they are presented in an all-too-familiar way. I'd rather watch "Limitless". The excitement and suspense die by the second half of the movie and the ending is a bunch of ho-hum. - erikaeubanks - 21 October 2022
SAME OLD TIRED STORYLINE
I am so sick of storylines like this... some mad scientist or teacher or leader or whatever with his/her sniveling assistant that's always moody and brooding in the background and always on the verge of turning against his/her sacred leader....in the end to "grow a conscious" and turn against the leader... like seriously... then everyone gets away in the end to ride off into the sunset abs either the leader is killed off or arrested or forever ruined *yawn* the "bad guy" never gets away with it... this movie would have been way better if this experiment worked and made it into the hands of the government or something... anything other than this same old storyline. Also the names of the drugs are hilarious like laffodil and phobica?? DarkenFlaxx is the worst ... anyway don't watch this movie if you're looking for something different, it'll irritate you because it isn't really what you think it is...
