So I watched the Robert Rodriguez-directed action thriller Hypnotic—starring Ben Affleck, Alice Braga and William Fichtner—at AMC theaters earlier today, and I thought it was as entertaining as it was derivative.
Hypnotic had some interesting twists and turns, but it was basically Inception meets The Matrix meets Star Wars (if Jedi Mind Tricks existed in the real world) meets every other film where a kid needs to be hidden from the government because of their special powers...like the 2016 sci-fi mystery flick Midnight Special, starring Adam Driver, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst and Michael Shannon. Oh, and 2022's Firestarter—co-written by Stephen King and starring Zac Efron as the father of a girl who can psychically make anyone and anything go up in flames.
Back to Hypnotic, Robert Rodriguez set the movie up for a sequel if you stay for the end credits. Of course I'll watch the sequel...though it's one of those films where I'd probably have to go on IMDb years later to see when this flick came out, and who exactly was in the cast.
Just like what I did with Midnight Special and Firestarter above! Carry on.
No comments:
Post a Comment