Blank

Sometimes I wish I could detect brilliance, masterpieces and complexities and whatever superlatives they use to describe their experience (assuming its not marketing only) that easy like many reviewers do these days. Blank is not bad, the production is okay, the acting good, but the idea and the story itself is nothing really new or special. We watched this kind of movie many times before, if we are interested in that kind of movies (whatever artificial intelligence makes its own decisions and so on). If you read your good share of sci-fi stories or you watch sci-fi movies on a regular basis, this won't deliver any great surprises but the creative equivalent of a solid made cheeseburger - nothing more but nothing less.

This is Black Mirror meets Misery The Writer got writer's block and decided to book herself into an AI retreat which promised to deliver her next book. But it all went A-wire when there seem to be a system breech - a scary and stressful scenario. The plot is interesting and the actresses were great. Good thriller and you can really feel the stress of the main character, Clare. And the dummy Rita is really funny. The mother is ugly and really scary. The beginning is great and you get invested really quickly but then the dream and writing sequences became really dragging and boring. If the movie is edited to be 30% shorter, it wouldn't have been so dragging. I didn't understand if Clare completely stole her mother's work or not? Is this why she is having a mental blank? Maybe because she was never the writer?

This movie is what is sometimes referred to as a slow burn, which is a show/movie that has very little story and doesn't know how to add world building or character development material. So instead it's a string of long, boring, drawn out scenes. Characters walking across the set, cars driving down a road, characters staring, and long pauses in dialogue. They are essentially trying to turn a short story into a novel by adding pages and pages of pointless filler material. A story that unfolds slowly can work, but it requires interesting characters and an intriguing premise to make up for plodding along. That is not this movie. This movie is trying to be a metaphor for the writer feeling like there's a script trapped inside their word processor. I think this movie would have been better left inside.