Where I Watched it: Netflix

Where I Feel Like i Watched It: My nightmares

English Audio Description?: No

Netflix and i aren’t speaking to each other right now. After everything we’ve been through, and all these years of my subscribing, I got both an email and push notification suggesting that I would like this. Netflix was wrong. And, worse yet, it doesn’t even have audio description. The algorithm can’t even figure out how to recommend titles with audio description to me.

Nevertheless, this film is inherently stupid. This is a cut to the chase review, which will involve me spoiling the end. Sadly, the ending is what is wrong at least on the top of the list.

The movie requires you to believe that this man (played by Garret Hedlund), would take a call from a friend who has a job hookup for him. An incredibly wealthy family has requested I’m specifically to tutor their kid. So, he abandons his pregnant girlfriend (Victoria Justice) for a week to go live in this mansion. We are introduced to the kid (played by Stranger Things’ Noah Schnapp) who is instantly set up as a creeper. he’s off. We don’t know why, but he is. And his grades were fine until this last semester when he went from being honor roll to total failure. Why?

Well, even though when The Tutor shows up, it’s just the kid and some horny cousins (plus a butler), the dad does eventually show up. Where is mom? The kid says ‘they sent her away.” Still, this film is trying to mislead you, and for the duration of the film it works so hard at trying to get you to look over there for its stupid sleight of hand trick.

The Tutor was specifically requested because he was having an affair with the never seen mother. Now, this could be an interesting premise, except that the film needed her to be murdered at this estate,which means that Hedlund knew what he was getting himself into from the very beginning, and wasn’t the least bit concerned that the family whose mother he was sleeping with requested him? The movie tries to sell you on Hedlund as a victim all the way up until he finally admits to killing the mother, and you have to wonder what is all of this for?

Why would he allow himself to be put in this situation?

Either way, this is not a good film. Noah gives the best performance, playing a creepy teen. But, this film really is hot garbage, and thinks its twists that make no sense will redeem it. They don’t.

Sure, without audio description I missed some things, but what I got was he knowingly put himself in this situation, so it’s hard to care for anyone by the end. Yes, it should have audio description. it’s not a long film, but I’m positive there were some visual clues I missed. I don’t think there is much that I could have taken from watching this with audio description to have changed my mind. I just believe it isn’t a good film.

Final Grade: D-