Spiderhead Review: It Has All The Potential To Be A Great Movie But Something Is Missing!

Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Tess Haubrich

Director: Joseph Kosinski

Streaming Platform: Netflix (click to watch)

Filmyhype.com Ratings: 3/5 (three stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

They will play with your mind! Review of Spiderhead, the new film directed by Joseph Kosinski after Top Gun: Maverick with Chris Hemsworth and Miles Teller. The role of Chris Hemsworth in Spiderhead is going to become one of the most emblematic of his career… but he is being replicated by Miles Teller, an actor of incredible versatility. We have seen him in the extraordinary Whiplash, in the Divergent saga, in Heroes in Hell and lately in Top Gun: Maverick, also directed by Joseph Kosinski.

This is a big moment for Joseph Kosinski. It is obvious that when the praises of Top Gun: Maverick are being spread the first person that springs to mind is the iconographic Tom Cruise, smiling and tanned next to his F-18, slyly as if he were aware from the poster of global greatness that the sequel to an already cult film of his would have aroused. He could therefore only intrigue his return, really in a short time, this time on smaller screens given the release of his Spiderhead between the June 2022 films from Netflix, in which his “Rooster” Miles Teller is brought, this time being joined by superhero actor Chris Hemsworth.

Spiderhead Review: The story

In truth, if Teller comes from the open skies of an aerial training while Hemsworth from the celestial stars of Thor: Love and Thunder, their Spiderhead, adapted from the work Escape from Spiderhead by writer and essayist George Saunders, focuses entirely on a scientific basis. far from everyday life whereas guinea pigs are inmates of the US state. A laboratory in which one has chosen independently to come, in which there are no cells or restrictions and in which every door remains open. But above all, a place where authorization is requested from the person involved in each experiment, who must agree that the infusions containing fluids and substances are injected under his skin, generating immediate and instant reactions.

Which, according to their creator, “could change the world”. The rhetoric of creating a good that would help others is applied to the sense of guilt of a character like the one played by Miles Teller, who seeks a redemption that could go as far as becoming a body on which to test products capable of altering the perception of reality. or, to tell the truth, from just trying to stop it all. Spiderhead takes its name from the structure that tentatively holds prisoners in its network and connects them according to activities and experiments.

Therefore, has the result of the pharmaceutical intrigue that hides the intention to increase profits thanks to the good-natured and familiar appearance of its creator faithful as much to the principles of science as to the lure of money, the same as many other genialoids, but psychotic and childish in its way, the catalyst of morbidity that drives most of the vision of Kosinski’s film, until it is understood that it is the same story not knowing where to go.

Spiderhead Review And Analysis

The classicism and linearity of a Top Gun: Maverick gets lost in a film whose typology is different, but which felt the potential of an unspoken thriller, capable of subverting even some of the rules of the genre by looking for originality, however, makes you lose the narrative compass, busted, when necessary, explanations need to arrive. A story that falls right in the moment of greatest tension of the film, able to tease until it reveals that it does not know how to lower its aces, naively believing that it can count on that closed bubble in which it has inserted characters and public, unfortunately ruining itself with frenzy. Joseph Kosinski, therefore, does not hit the mark as with his hyperbolic Top Gun but confirms that he knows how to look with a certain eye at the direction of his actors, managing to come up with perhaps one of the best interpretations of Hemsworth.

Surely and deliberately puckish, constructed as we imagine many businessmen (especially scientists) and almost addicted to his ideas, the interpreter allows himself to fully adhere to the role of Steve Abnesti, captivating with a transformation that rarely matched the actor so well and that leads to regret given the film’s mediocre and only semi-sufficient fortunes. A work that had every component to be exalted, gone askew like the tests in which patients and observers are involved. An experiment that ended badly, one of those who were not asked to save the planet, but only to know how to have fun.

There is an excellent science-fiction story within it, but it gets lost every time humor bursts in, sometimes too thick, or a big hit that contrasts with the barbarity that the film tells. The soundtrack is full of them with some of the greatest hits of Supertramp or The Doobie Brothers, but they do nothing but clash with the story, which is given a rogue sarcasm that is very fake. It seems like a premeditated decision (although it is arguably the right one), but the film is intentionally lighthearted as if seeking to rid itself of any possibility of generating a serious debate when it was called to do so. Spiderhead passes the buck avoiding raising blisters and opts for a Manichaean ending, full of adrenaline and zero reflection.

Along the way, the construction of the characters is carried forward: certain aspects are as predictable as they are ridiculous and we never manage to understand the reasons for the actions carried out by our macabre Abnesti. Given a background, it would be overwhelming. In short: Spiderhead can be seen and, given that the tastes of the audience seem to opt for simple, efficient, and entertaining proposals beyond the search for an intrinsic quality in terms of strong scripts or significant and transcendental plots, it is not difficult to predict a new success for Netflix. The poster sells the film well.

Kosinski returns to the field of science fiction with a film that exposes his ideas well, but that in its final third hesitates, flirting with black comedy and reducing the forcefulness of the script. He had wickers to make something more elaborate and better finished. The idea is for the performers to shine going from anxiety to euphoria, terror, or violent episodes. It is an entertaining movie.

Spiderhead Review: The Last Words

Spiderhead has a basic atmosphere and intuition that can immediately intrigue the viewer, who finds himself involved in the dynamics between scientists and guinea pigs intrigued by what may happen within the story. Too bad that the script gets lost frantically at the end, almost failing to articulate well what he had in mind for the explanation of the events in his story of him. A note of credit, however, goes to Chris Hemsworth, particularly good under the watchful eye of the direction of Joseph Kosinski.