there are just too many scenes where characters act with utterly illogical idiocy, especially in the final act. Rather than screaming for them to go the other way, you'll be urging them to accept fate and die instead
the topical nightmare has potential to get under your skin, but relies too much on familiar jump scares and easy violence to achieve anything long-lasting or truly groundbreaking
as proven by Mary Elizabeth Winstead in "Final Destination 3" or the spunky Jessica Rothe in "Happy Death Day", these fate-driven, high-concept horror flicks can be redeemed by a committed central performance
a pedestrian thriller whose personal-tech gimmick is even more thinly imagined than one might guess, it's a jumble of cheap jump scares made watchable by likable leads Elizabeth Lail and Jordan Calloway
by Benjamin Lee [The Guardian ]
by Joshua Rothkopf [Time Out New York ]
