Spiderhead

Spiderhead

A prisoner in a state-of-the-art penitentiary begins to question the purpose of the emotion-controlling drugs he's testing for a pharmaceutical genius.

  • Released: 2022-06-17
  • Runtime: 105 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Thrillers
  • Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Tess Haubrich, BeBe Bettencourt, Angie Miliken, Jane Larkin, Ron Smyck, Joey Vieira, Elke Hinrichsen, Sam Delich, Mark Paguio, Daniel Reader, Ashleigh Lawrence, Stephen Tongun, Rachel Forsyth, Jariah Travan, Regan Sharp, Elliot Chenery, Aykut Karacam, Wyomi Reed, Nathan Jones
  • Director: Joseph Kosinski
 Comments
  • cjonesas - 25 February 2024
    [5.2] Entrance to the control room - open market
    A movie that would have been better made and developed as a 4-5 part mini-series, the idea and premise are good, the crowd and "prisoner" patients too few, the acts though questionable, being drug-laced and induced are not fully developed, just around 60-65% and the third curtain leading to the ending extremely weak.

    As such, the flow and entertainment suffered from end of beginning till the complete end, having viewers not completely understanding, uninterested, detached and bored to some extent.

    The whole movie is just too mild and not credible with too few patients and no security at all. Better suited was to conduct experiments in a specialized complex with at least 150 subjects.

    • Screenplay/storyline/plots: 5
    • Development: 6.5
    • Realism: 6
    • Entertainment: 4
    • Acting: 6.5
    • Filming/photography/cinematography: 7
    • VFX: 7.5
    • Music/score/sound: 5.5
    • Depth: 6
    • Logic: 2
    • Flow: 4
    • Action/crime/drama: 4.5
    • Ending: 3.
  • mattfrancis-60254 - 1 August 2023
    Netflix overrated.
    Put it this way, I'm going from Netflix and these so called Gems to Amazon Prime. This is meant to be a sci fi thriller. Wow.

    What on earth was that? Now I know your all sweet on Hemsworth, hence he's cast in these movies again and again (as strange as that is to me) but not even his stiff jawline and blonde sprayed on highlights can save this movie this time.

    From the offset, the cheesy - straight from TikTok - dancing in the kitchen, and the opening sequence with the blue seas and richness, this movie bugs me big time.

    The concept focussed on some life-changing treatment if you like, correctional treatment being test subjects with a few Thailand guys stood next to the towering and certainly overrated Hemsworth tapping away at an application. Okay, smooth. Ahem. What we waiting for something worth the long wait I'll bet, well no not at all.

    So anyway, test subjects. Yeah, failed.