REVIEW: Netflix's Spiderhead feels cold, calculated, and just plain boring.
But the presentation is all so calculated. The smartly-curated needle-drops sprinkled throughout the movie are, in the most generous light, appropriately sociopathic. An Ellen Degeneres-style walk-out set to a familiar pop tune doesn’t quite hit the same for a guy who’s essentially a prison warden — a guy who also happens to be pumping people full of drugs to line his own pockets. It’s as evocative as it is suspicious: There’s something off about this man.
That hardware, called a Mobipack, is the catch — because of course there’s a catch. All the freedoms enjoyed at Spiderhead, by even the people convicted of involuntary manslaughter, come at a price. The price is Steve Abnesti. Sure, they get benefits denied to the people stuck in gen-pop. But they also serve as guinea pigs. Whenstarts, a man seated in a white room is being goaded into laughing at bad jokes — and then, at despairingly unfunny, violent facts. He laughs, laughs away.
There are souls at stake in a story like this. Though for us to really notice that, the movie itself would need a speck of soul, or at least a genuine, original sense of humor.has neither. It’s boring. When the emotional revelations come, as they do like clockwork, any surprise they offer or feelings they dredge up are purely the result of manipulation.
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