Promising Young Woman

I dont't consider myself an expert on these matters, but this must be the dumbest, worst rape and revenge movie I've ever seen.
As much so that at first I thought this was some sort of send-up of your stereotypical specimen and how old all these tropes have gotten and how exploitation rarely ever makes for any good social commentary or actual human drama.
But this movie sometimes forgets what it is. Or doesn't know what it wants to be.

For me to take anything in this movie seriously or at face value, it's way too awkwardly acted, cheaply directed, shittily produced, unaesthetically designed, conveniently plotted, ham-fistedly written, sillily scored and generally just bad.
If this movie would have made any efforts to be a little more crazy, out there, wild, whatever, it would have worked waaaayyy better, I think. Instead of being dry, boring, yet absurd and also unpleasant to look at. Not to mention the ill-fitted attempts to be grounded in reality in some way.

I do not understand how this can be considered a thriller. In order for me to feel suspense, I have to care about the main character first. Which is kind of impossible, when the main character's „personality“ is nothing but cringeworthy attempts at edgy sarcasm or being suddenly and inexplicably enamored with Bo Burnham, who shows off his „Awkward Guy“ routine he learned in clown school. Way to undercut your own protagonist's conviction, movie. Like she did it all just because she was bored, and then some guy came along and she dropped it all in a heartbeat.
And the giant wig didn't help. Neither did whatever make-up artist or DP who made her look like she's in her early 40s. Or whatever diet made her look this starved and dehydrated.

Yes, Carey Mulligan saved anything that could be salvaged by way of her performance, I guess. But only in the same way a balloon would make a battleship sink a little slower.
But other than her, not one of her co-stars seemed to be knowing what they're doing, had any chemistry with anyone or generally performed in a way that made me believe they a) rehearsed anything even once and b) did more than one take. Or c) finished acting school, in case of the guy who played Al Monroe.

Whatever the opposite of hitting the nail on the head is, this movie exemplifies it perfectly.
If you can even call it a movie, 'cause it certainly didn't feel like one. Maybe because it always tries to be something, but never is. It's too forced and put-on in almost any regard for that.