Film Review - Hypnotic (2023)

Hypnotic is the new film by Robert Rodriguez and stars Ben Affleck as Danny Rourke a detective who is struggling to get over the disappearance of his daughter Minnie but one day he notices a strange man (William Fichtner) walking into a bank and it will later set off a pursuit as he has the power to psychically bend others to his will.

Oh Ben,

How can you do this to me mate, you now have the distinction of being involved in both my favourite and least favourite movie of the year at least so far because this movie is STUPID!

And not in a good way where you can sit there and laugh at its stupidity like “What does God need with a Starship?” from Star Trek 5 or Martha in Batman V Superman also with Ben Affleck in it or teach the word of Zeist in Highlander 2 where its stupidity became a cautionary tale for a franchise.

No instead we get good old fashioned bad stupidity where you sit there and think “What the fuck is this shit” and I honestly have no clue what Ben saw in this apart from maybe an easy paycheque I mean he does have a family to provide for and he was locked down during the Dark Times of COVID so I don’t 100% blame him for just wanting to act and work but to have this come after Air was so warmly embraced it got a theatrical release instead of just being dumped on Amazon Prime makes it feel worse.

As for the whole psychic thing again it just looks ridiculous especially when you have William Fichtner a great actor who’s worked with some amazing directors just stand there and stare at you like a weirdo I mean that’s how the psychic powers work on this movie people just stand there and stare at each other I mean at least in the X-Men movies you had some hand movements from Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy but here just staring off into space and some cheap Inception style knock off effects.

And so that was Hypnotic and watching it feels like a Hypnosis, when your watching it your watching a stupid movie but when you walk out of it you want to forget all about it and it is definitely my least favourite film of the year so far, 1 out of 5.