The Neighbor (2022)
2/10
Messy
30 September 2023
Good intentions but very disjointed plot, unnecessary annoying psychotic diva dramatics on the part of the protagonist Rikki and pent up bursts of irrelevant flashbacks to events that lead to no where. Slow pace is curiously drawn out to insert inane conversations from all characters. Whole movie seems amateurish where audience can't or don't care to engage with any character to empathize with. Each character seems detached from the each other, pansively dragging on with their low energy lives and carrying their own misplaced cross in a crisis moment when tragedy, pain and grief should unite and mend fractures for possible last moments of the aggrieved. Too much tortured souls suitable for therapy sessions but not for a movie worth sitting through. The worst part is the enabling of a very clear and present danger in the story to ballon into a very serious hate crime when simple measures with authorities could have had been easily taken to prevent the obvious inevitable consequences it was heading towards. So much negative deprecating aggression within the supposed nucleus of love by the protagonist but seemingly not doing enough the right things to make anything matter.
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