Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

tedg This promises two things.One is a lightweight system to connect an App with a movie. You download the free App and launch it. It listens to the film and synchronizes some images and a little video from time to time. This is a fantastic idea, but in this case the experience wasn't expanded. The main effect is that the movie is purportedly about an app with the same name that takes over your phone and life, potentially very spooky, like having Ringu in your VHS player.The other promise is a new twist on the charmed evil object merged with the trope of an AI system capable of gathering from anywhere and reaching everywhere. We've seen too many from the AI side already, many of them so uninformed they cannot register. They may as well use genies.That's something of what goes on here. In fact we have three horror notions merged. The app in some instances has to be placed on the phone but in others not. It seems to be connected to everything that is online, but the appearance and behavior is unsophisticated.It also is magical, turning on a radio that it knows will bounce into a pool; driving a truck into a car. Making a phone explode. Reading minds.We also have the technologist conspirators, a supposedly bright student and a medical doctor who have placed this app here and there and also control it to some extent. There is no discernible logic to what we see, though. (The app kills the student.)A typical high tech NSA conspiracy plot can use these without much question: the organization is evil and the tech is often out of control. Simple.Some deaths occur to keep the app undisclosed. The app appears to spy on the student's old girlfriends. It is used to try to control prosthetics for the heroine's crippled brother…One episode seems purely evil, revealing a completely unrelated gay encounter between student and professor. You've got to be pretty soft in the head to not let these key matters get in the way.No redeeming content, despite the downloadable second screen experience.

kaydeelane Great concept. Quite decent acting. Enjoyable chaos. The only real drawback is a lack of believable motive. The origin of the app and the way it behaves seem so utterly disconnected. The reason for the disconnect, as I understand it, and a way it could be fixed is written below.---Spoiler---The app - IRIS - simply doesn't make sense.I would buy the fact that it began as spy-ware and was possessed by Liesbeth's ghost or simply became unhinged after witnessing her death. I could definitely see this turning IRIS into a malevolent, possessive, controlling app. I could also see the app seeking revenge. But what I find very difficult to swallow is that the same app that was used as spy-ware is knowingly utilized as an implant to help Ana's brother walk again. How is that technology linked, exactly? Why would a doctor be involved with implanting something so dubious? His hacker acquaintance doesn't give the impression of someone who would volunteer his tech for charity, and no mention of money is made. The connection between the doctor, hacker, app and implant is highly irrational.I feel like this inconsistency would have been very easy to amend by simply claiming that the app was separate from the implant, and only learned to control it as a way of controlling Ana. Add a little more indication of why the app fixated on Ana and it would become a solid plot.And if revenge against the hacker/Liesbeth's stalker was IRIS's motivation, then why did IRIS peacefully exist on his phone so long? Needs some explanation. I can think of a dozen potential ones.---End Spoiler---In any case, I enjoyed the split screen technology and the potential unhinged apps offer as a plot device. If you have some time to kill, I say to give this movie a watch just for kicks.

gavin6942 A young psychology student is drawn into the dark and fearful world of a diabolic and mysterious App that starts to terrorize her, distributing compromising photographs, videos and text messages about herself and delves deeper and deeper into her personal life, flawlessly exposing all of her deepest secrets.Absolutely worth singling out is Herman Witkam, the film's composer. Despite his lengthy credits, Witkam is not well known (at least not in America), but should be. He provides a score that is both unique and energizing, and fits the film's theme perfectly.The general idea is brilliant, especially as apps become more advanced and our privacy gets thinner and thinner through social media. This is truly something that needs to be seen by more viewers.

Martijn Brouns I think the director got a little too much carried away with the second screen technology. Even though the film is targeted at teens, the plot is just too thin. A few examples of this below, but mind the spoiler alert...---spoiler alert--- It's absolutely not credible that a doctor would use software from some hacker to spy on people and put it into the body of a paralyzed person to make him walk again.If it is so obvious that an app is taking over your life and killing people, anyone would simply turn of the phone, take out the battery or just throw the phone in the water. But no, our lead character decides to actively use the deadly phone throughout the movie.Why would an app know how to kill someone who is swimming in a pool by turning on an analogue radio that is positioned next to a pool on top of a be able to turn on a radio on top of a scaffold?If someone just threw 2 liters of boiling water over your face, would you be able to drive a car and chase another person, only 15 minutes later?