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I've had this movie kicking around on my hard drive for a while and I finally decided to watch it. I wasn't expecting much and it still fell far below my expectations.

I won't get into too many spoilers but the central ideas of the movie simply don't make sense. There are so many holes in how it works when you spend five seconds thinking about it and the way they try to handwave it all away in the movie is kind of hilarious.

Speaking of hilarious, the best parts of the movie were when it was unintentionally funny. There are banger lines like, "My back! I need my calcium!" Or when a five year old girl gets pregnant and gives birth in the span of a few minutes. Everything was exposition dumped too, characters were constantly telling the audience exactly what was happening on the screen. "I'm cutting you with this rusty knife that my kids found earlier in the movie. The rust is like poison in your blood. This is an example of Chekov's Gun!"

M Night isn't known for his witty dialogue but it's exceptionally bad here. And it's delivered in a weird, stilted, Yorgos Lanthimos-type manner except I don't think it was meant to be intentional.

I do not recommend it even as a "turn your brain off" thriller type movie. It's awful. The central premise is moderately interesting but it's executed poorly. The only redeeming quality is that Thomasin McKenzie is a fricking smokeshow and she walks around in a bikini the entire movie. Very distracting.