Meander

90% RT score? Gods... The camera is so obsessed with the protagonist's face we never get a good feeling for the environment she's in. Her lack of curiosity for her surroundings and lukewarm urgency in the face of existential threat is farcical. In one scene, with a deadly countdown ticking, she just lies down and closes her eyes. On many traps she's just like "Whatever, guess I'll die. Plot armor, save me!" The "wrist codes" subplot makes zero sense. Everything in the final half is a shitshow.

Meander is derivative, repetitive, but it succeeds in making the viewer feel in a stinky, cramped place in front of something so mediocre.

A Cube lookalike but not as interesting. For the first ~30 min nothing is shown but the woman being tortured for no apparent reason. The third act I simply could not understand. Although the claustrophobic sense is real, that alone does not make a movie.

Eksantrik. Yoldan geçen adamın arabasına binen kızımız, birden bire 1 havalandırma kanalının içinde bulur. Havalandırma kanalları tuzaklarla doludur. Klostrofobi'den boğulmaya kadar bütün fobileri anlatan film, Gaia Weiss'in performansına bırakıyor. Filmin senaryosundaki torpil saçmalıkları, sıkıcı hale geliyor. Filmin sonunda, kızıyla buluşma. Kanalları açmak lazım.