TheFriendshipGame — the Peyton List-starring sci-fi horror film — has been done with far more command and conviction in superior cinematic work elsewhere. Our review:
For much of The Friendship Game, a film that dances between more conventional horror and something resembling science fiction, there was a sense of déjà vu in how similar it felt to the 2017 film Wish Upon. This is not a flattering comparison as it extends beyond their shared narrative device of a mysterious object that can grant the wishes of those who possess it to how each plays everything so straight even as the story gets increasingly silly.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY It all begins rather creakily with four friends Zooza , Rob , Courtney , and Cotton who are all at a turning point in their lives as they get ready to head to college. One day, Zooza and Cotton discover a mysterious object at a yard sale that looks like it could have been plucked straight out of the Hellraiser films. They are informed in a cartoonishly ominous fashion by the woman selling it that it is a game to test their friendship by granting their deepest desires.
Some of this creates a potentially interesting intersection between all of them as we see how each character is more troubled than they will ever open up to the other about, but it becomes repetitive to the point of frustrating when there isn’t any greater direction to it. That is before we take a dive into a narrative element that gives everything a science fiction inflection.
While there are moments where it feels like we are getting close to that edge, it will always pull us back into more safe territory that undercuts its own thematic ambitions. This is felt most in particular lines of dialogue that convey exposition and move the plot along in a painfully unnatural fashion.
Not helping matters is how the conclusion plays out largely in the confines of a single home that begins to feel mighty small in both a narrative and thematic sense. The structure of it all feels scattered with scenes getting stacked on top of each other in an odd manner. The characters themselves are made aimless as one can't help wondering what they are doing there any longer.
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