Once upon a time, in the distant land called 1948, a movie based on a play appeared. It was called "Sorry, Wrong Number". This entertainment concerned a bed-ridden woman who intercepts a call that concerns murder. She comes to a bad end after dialing and dialing and dialing to get someone to listen/believe her. The technology was crude, but the tension was there. That was the first Hollywood look at benign communication gone wrong...and the mystery person on the other end of the line who caused terror from a remote location.
That brings us to "Unfriended", which basically has the same plot line as the 1948 movie. Teens who should be doing their homework are cruising Facebook and Skype, mouthing obscenities and acting out with some mild cybersex here and there. Instead of a mystery murderer, we have a ghost in the machine who's targeted this group of annoying individuals for a reason I didn't find out, because the gimmick of watching a computer screen on my TV wore it's welcome out about 15 minutes into this snoozer.
Being unfriended is the social death du jour, electronic dismissal by someone you probably really don't know. Still, the trauma of "they don't like me!!" cuts deep. Wait until Facebook finally puts the "unlike" thumbs down feature into play. Murders will probably ensue. This movie has an interesting premise, but the gimmick of watching the seizure inducing screen and the players gets old pretty quickly. This is exactly the same as "Sorry, Wrong Number". The teens swear, show off their cyber skills (especially the overweight guy who was destined to be the brains here) and do a bunch of freaking out. Why didn't they all just turn off their electronics and clean their rooms? Perhaps this lousy movie is a jab at the current generation of humans who cannot relate to anything that's not on some kind of screen? I could accept that, but not in this form.
In conclusion, I unfriend this movie. See reasons above.
That brings us to "Unfriended", which basically has the same plot line as the 1948 movie. Teens who should be doing their homework are cruising Facebook and Skype, mouthing obscenities and acting out with some mild cybersex here and there. Instead of a mystery murderer, we have a ghost in the machine who's targeted this group of annoying individuals for a reason I didn't find out, because the gimmick of watching a computer screen on my TV wore it's welcome out about 15 minutes into this snoozer.
Being unfriended is the social death du jour, electronic dismissal by someone you probably really don't know. Still, the trauma of "they don't like me!!" cuts deep. Wait until Facebook finally puts the "unlike" thumbs down feature into play. Murders will probably ensue. This movie has an interesting premise, but the gimmick of watching the seizure inducing screen and the players gets old pretty quickly. This is exactly the same as "Sorry, Wrong Number". The teens swear, show off their cyber skills (especially the overweight guy who was destined to be the brains here) and do a bunch of freaking out. Why didn't they all just turn off their electronics and clean their rooms? Perhaps this lousy movie is a jab at the current generation of humans who cannot relate to anything that's not on some kind of screen? I could accept that, but not in this form.
In conclusion, I unfriend this movie. See reasons above.