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
  • SnoopyStyle - 11 December 2022
    sci-fi thriller
    Spiderhead is a penitentiary and research facility run by scientist Steve Abnesti (Chris Hemsworth). He's using prisoner volunteers for his experiments to control emotions. Jeff (Miles Teller) and Lizzy (Jurnee Smollett) are two of those volunteers.

    This is a sci-fi thriller. It has some feel of Ex Machina. The premise has some potential, but very little of it is fully realized. It's not that thrilling. It's not really that edgy. It has some good actors. The story never really takes off. Instead of volunteers, I would make them prisoners forced to participate. That would insert the edgy possibility of escape. This needs more edge.
  • todd-136-941782 - 20 October 2022
    Takes medical testing to a whole new level
    This felt a lot like a remake of Ewan McGregor's, The Island without anywhere near the budget.

    I also enjoyed a couple of young Hollywood stars taking aim at medical testing and vaccinations in general. As we are now finding out, the Covid vaccine isn't very good for your health and doesn't prevent you from becoming infected.

    I think this movie would have benefited from some additional funding for the screenplay. At times the story got lost and meandered aimlessly before getting on track.

    Miles Teller is going to win a best actor award at some point but it won't be for Spiderhead.

    Hemsworth was okay but didn't really deliver a strong performance. I think he has some dramatic acting chops in there somewhere but he drifts back and forth between smart-ass and trying to be a serious actor and misses both.