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- 2020
- Not Rated
- RLJE Films
- 1 h 33 m
- 2020
- Not Rated
- RLJE Films
- 1 h 33 m
Summary Meet Kurt (Joe Keery), a 23-year-old rideshare driver for "Spree", who is so desperate for social media attention that he'll stop at nothing to go viral. He comes up with a plan to livestream a rampage as a shortcut to infamy - coining his evil scheme "#thelesson", he installs a set of cameras in his car and begins streaming his rides. W...
Directed By: Eugene Kotlyarenko
Written By: Gene McHugh, Eugene Kotlyarenko
- 2020
- Not Rated
- RLJE Films
- 1 h 33 m
- 2020
- Not Rated
- RLJE Films
- 1 h 33 m
Spree
42
6.2
Where to Watch
Summary Meet Kurt (Joe Keery), a 23-year-old rideshare driver for "Spree", who is so desperate for social media attention that he'll stop at nothing to go viral. He comes up with a plan to livestream a rampage as a shortcut to infamy - coining his evil scheme "#thelesson", he installs a set of cameras in his car and begins streaming his rides. W...
Directed By: Eugene Kotlyarenko
Written By: Gene McHugh, Eugene Kotlyarenko
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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36% Positive
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36% Mixed
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29% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
42
36% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
36% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
An equal parts terrifying, thrilling, and satirical look at how social media can warp the mind.
Every frame of the film is bursting with sensory overload information, from the shaky, hand-held camera angles to the constant scrolling of viewer messages to the occasional use of split screens.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 User Ratings
6.2
60% Positive
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24 Ratings
20% Mixed
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20% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 User Ratings
6.2
60% Positive
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
20% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
20% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
honestly?? i love this movie so much, the style that it was edited and shot in was really great, and they were able to mix comedy in with the genre of the movie really well without making it campy. Joe is absolutely amazing, but I think that Sasheer's performance stole every scene she was in, she's great. I loved how they eventually tie up the entire movie.
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I have to say I went along with it, more amused by the craft and bursts of wit and gripped by a bit of tension, here and there, than appalled by the inhumanity. It taps into our shared phobia about ridesharing and “over-sharing,” not that EVERYbody is alarmed by these phenomena.
To the extent that it works, much credit goes to Keery, for finding the real human need inside this twentysomething cipher.
A forced, over-ripe satire on the hunger for social media, bolstered by an engaging performance by Joe Keery. But if you really want to feel the real-life impact of the ’Gram on a young psyche, stick with Eighth Grade.
If you are in need of more reminders of the most extreme of the potential evils of internet interaction than you get every time you fire up an app, by all means, smash the like button on “Spree.” For the rest of us, the best advice might be to mute, block, vote down, unfollow or simply log off and go look at a tree.
Coarsely merging social-media critique and slasher comedy, this shallow take on the evils of internet addiction is as unoriginal as it is unfunny.
Amazing!! Great dark black mirror esc satiric commentary on our social media driven world and how young kids and teens know the world only through the new norm of social media. "If you're not documenting yourself are you even alive"? Interesting story, Joe Keery gives an incredible performance as and awkward young person who had a very tough upringing and clearly has unaddressed issues. He's performance gives the feel of the bland awkward boring online personality which makes sense that he doesn't have any followers despite his extensive uploads but his desperate need and want for attention and trials of becoming something and failing show layers of the character and really lets Keerys performance shine.
The film also if one of the first to succeed in the technical way in terms of the new age found footage esc film. So many films before like "darknet" and "unfriended" tried to make the webcam social media found footage film but grossly failed. Spree not only gives you a lot of action and angle coverage through its many cameras setup by our fame hungry protagonist and other social media personalities it also fully justifies all the cameras being there without the viewer questioning the likeliness of them being there. Everything flows very smoothly and there isn't a single angle which is not from a phone, go pro, or cctv cameras. Spree is comparable to Taxi Driver as Taxi Driver was a timecapsule of the 1970s LA Spree is a very much time capsule of 2020 and how this very new social media filming and posting everything and living vicariously through other can and is harmful to everyone and in the case of our protagonist Kurt can lead a man to do Crazy, unjustifiable actions just to get viewers and likes.
Truly an amazing film and recommendable to everyone who can think a bit more about the themes and commentary and not dissmiss the character or his actions just because you dont understand social media mr. Newspaper journalist movie reviewer who probably still has a flip phone. Recommended to everyone!
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This is very much an MTV type 'found footage'-esque film, which would mainly appeal to a teenage audience, I'd imagine. Its pretty high octane, once it gets going and it doesn't take long to get going, all things considered. It's very much 'in your face' style - fair enough. I found it distracting trying to read some of the live stream comments that appear in the bottom left hand corner constantly - it uses the split screen feature a lot too, with multiple camera views showing different angles (of the same place usually).
While there is undoubtedly violence, some bloody violence, depicted, there isn't much in the way of especially gory or explicit detail shown (thankfully). I suppose its more about a moral story than it is about showing every inch of everything that happens - its obvious enough what becomes of certain people, we don't really need to see everything in complete detail, I reckon.
The themes interest me but it does have a bit of a trashy, throw away feel to it, which will alienate many people I imagine. There's no doubt there have already been people in real life who have ended up committing dangerous acts partly to get some form of online notoriety, so it should perhaps make for some sobering thoughts but this film felt a bit too immature and doesn't really question or answer things fully in the way that perhaps me, as an adult in her 30s, would ideally like. So yeah, maybe I am a bit too old for this kind of film but what can I say? I remember (just about!) life before the internet was available to all, life as a kid prior to social media. I've got numerous social media accounts and I dont have the biggest number of followers ever I suppose but im glad to say I've never felt the drive to pursue my supposed owed '5 minutes of fame', though I can understand some people do crave it.
This is nearly a good film but not quite, in my opinion. It poses more questions than it answers but it'd be a good starting point for discussing the points it covers.
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Hollow. Absolutely hollow
Spree is a simple and mediocre mention of how in social media we're the directors of the life we choose to present to a fake world.
This is about the life of a dangerous and damaged person but still is meaningless.
It's neither satire nor criticism. It's just a reflection, so there's no surprise nor shock, because it exists.
You can find the worst **** online and those are actually real.
This could've been a short film and I think it would've created a better impression that way, because after about 25 minutes it's quite evident that its narrative resource wasn't enough to sustain a complete film.
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Abysmal movie. The mediocre acting was the only highlight of this entire garbage pile of a movie, if that. It was all over the place, extremely repetitive, unfunny, and had no redeeming features whatsoever. None of the characters were likeable at all. From start to finish, it felt like this was no consequence. Whatever commentary was intended with this "film" was completely lost in all the nonsense, unrealistic actions and empty dialogue in it. This movie is as vapid as social media itself. Don't waste your time.
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Production Company
Dreamcrew,
Forest Hill Entertainment,
SuperBloom Films,
Particular Crowd,
Spacemaker Productions
Release Date Aug 14, 2020
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline Murder is trending...
Website
https://spreefilm.com/
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
L'Etrange Festival
• 1 Nomination
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
