Let's Be Evil

Released Aug 5, 2016

1h 23m

Mystery & Thriller

Sci-Fi

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A woman (Elizabeth Morris) enters an underground bunker where gifted children use virtual reality technology to wreak havoc.

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Porter D

I'm in debt with Target, Macy's, and Costco from how many pairs of pants I flooded while watching this movie !!MORE SCARY THAN HUMAN CENTIPEDE!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/27/24

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Lil J

This is the most boring movie ever made. Nothing makes sense in this pit of dirt. If you wanted to watch this movie, then go push around some dirt with a stick instead.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/08/21

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Decent watch, if forgettable, at best, won't watch again, and can't recommend. (Please keep in mind that the mobile app erased my original review, so I'm a little peeved.) My biggest concern with this movie is that it concentrates on fear mongering against technology more than creating a good movie. I understand that it's supposed to be a psychological thriller, but that should be what you're concentrating on and not teaching the audience to fear technology: just tell the story. In fairness, it did do a lot with a clearly low budget: low level actors you won't recognize and (mostly) kids for background characters, Google Glass (or similar) tech, an underground bunker setting, and not particularly great cg effects, but they managed to get by. The real crux of the story is that isolated in a bunker, they kind of think they're going mad, so "what's real" comes into play, and then it becomes the inevitable question of "is it me or is the technology out to get me", and when that tech is a virtual OS (think Cortana), then there is no telling what is going to happen so there is no expectation, thus nothing to subvert. Its a rule in both Horror and Comedy to play with the audience's tension / expectation (Rules of 3) to establish a pattern, and then break/deliver on it in a surprising manner. The camera work also messed with me quite a bit. Not only do you have a switch between natural 3rd person camera work and 1st person perspective, the camera work alternatives between almost imperceptively still and wildly jerk about as the audience was intended to experience an earthquake. It feels like the movie was trying to be "Hardcore Henry" esque, but didn't actually do anything special with the camera angles and distracted with the Head's Up Display (HUD). There's a movie here, you might even like it, but I'm willing to bet that the movie is too unique without much spectacular happening for most people to enjoy it.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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andrew k

It was actually doing pretty well. Tone and atmosphere were very well set. Tension was building. Not to say everything worked, but most of it was. Then they stumbled on a couple pretty big moments and it went from being really good to just above average. A couple of different choices could have made a ton of difference.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Honestly, I would have given it a solid 3 stars until I got to the last 20 minutes or so. Then they lost me. At that point, I could no longer focus on just letting the movie play (I had it on as background noise while playing Elder Scrolls Online. Instead, I began questioning why these tech-savvy "children of the corn" were allowed to repeatedly terrorize their babysitters in an underground dungeon instead of getting their homicidal behinds thrown into the real world equivalent of Belle Reve (among other things). In the end, the only thing I took away from this movie is: Never trust children with superpowers unless their principal is a bald man in a wheelchair.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Audience Member

absolute waste of time. just a bunch of bargain barrel mindscrew attempts and zero plot resolution.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Martin Owen

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Elizabeth Morris

Jenny

Isabelle Allen

Cassandra

Elliot James Langridge

Darby

Kara Tointon

Tiggs

Jamie Bernadette

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Mike McCahill

Guardian

The effects work is unusually sophisticated. Yet there's no dressing up some desperately ordinary stalk-and-slashing, and the budget undermines the world-building ...

Rated: 2/5

Oct 27, 2016

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

While I get the feeling Morris could be a terrific young talent worth keeping an eye on, she's practically the only reasons to care about anything that's happening here.

Rated: 2/4

Aug 25, 2016

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Glenn Kenny

RogerEbert.com

The movie's relentless one-note tone makes its final twist, such as it is, entirely predictable and pat.

Rated: 1.5/4

Aug 5, 2016

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Brigid Presecky

FF2 Media

A desperate attempt at an allegorical warning to today's technology obsessed-society.

Rated: 2.5/5

Aug 16, 2019

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Kat Hughes

THN

The plot is muddled, riddled with plot holes.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 30, 2018

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

There's always a sense of something being held back, unduly restrained, so the film doesn't punch the way it should.

Rated: 2.5/5

Oct 28, 2016

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Synopsis

A woman (Elizabeth Morris) enters an underground bunker where gifted children use virtual reality technology to wreak havoc.

Director: Martin Owen
Producer: Jonathan Willis
Screenwriter: Martin Owen, Elizabeth Morris
Distributor: IFC Films
Production Co: Let's Be Evil, Posterity Pictures
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 5, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 23, 2016
Runtime: 1h 23m

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