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- 2021
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 45 m
- 2021
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 45 m
Summary A psychiatrist (Casey Affleck), whose client commits suicide, finds his family life disrupted after introducing the patient's surviving brother (Sam Claflin) to his wife (Michelle Monaghan) and daughter.
Directed By: Vaughn Stein
Written By: David Murray
- 2021
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 45 m
- 2021
- R
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 45 m
Every Breath You Take
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4.9
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Summary A psychiatrist (Casey Affleck), whose client commits suicide, finds his family life disrupted after introducing the patient's surviving brother (Sam Claflin) to his wife (Michelle Monaghan) and daughter.
Directed By: Vaughn Stein
Written By: David Murray
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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63% Mixed
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5 Reviews
38% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
32
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
63% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
38% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
The cast does a lot of the heavy lifting in the film, which evades exploring the characters' trauma. The emotional drama is a vehicle fueling a messy story in a film primarily concerned with elevating the mystery that so easily unravels by the end.
Every character is merely a stereotype or symbol, not a fully-fleshed out person. Indeed, one has to wonder what every actor, including Monaghan, is doing in this flimsily written psychological thriller, but perhaps, that question isn’t even worth the speculation.
The movie carries you along, and it’s got some high-tension moments, but there are one too many coincidental running-into-each-other-in-town close encounters.
With only a few fleeting moments of nail-biting thrills, Every Breath You Take remains mostly tepid and frustrating.
The film initially pretends to have some sensitivity about mental illness, but blatantly trivializes it and uses it as a crutch upon which to hang the villain’s increasingly maniacal actions.
Sam Claflin is best in show, but his performance is undercut by the film’s inability to escalate or explore the ramifications of its premise.
Though the actors suggest a better result, Stein’s thriller is really just a Lifetime movie dressed up in a tux, and the problems start piling up faster than you–or any therapist–can count.
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