SPOILER REVIEW! Hypnotic - Recapping Ben Affleck’s Biggest Bomb

We are back with another spoiler review. Only listen to this episode if you don't mind having a movie completely ruined for you, or in this case.

If you want to save your money and just have us tell you what happens.

Because you really don't need to see this movie. It is called Hypnotic. It stars Ben Affleck, directed by Robert Rodriguez, and right off the bat, I kind of knew this wasn't gonna be the best movie.

We saw no press for it there that existed. I saw it in the regal app Like I mean, at this point, we just like to go see a movie every weekend. It's it's nice to go sit in a dark, cool theater for two hours.

We have the regal pass.

Like I knew it existed because I like Robert Rodriguez and I like Ben Affleck. It just felt weird that this movie was coming out and there was really nothing surrounding it, no big press release. You know. I really had to even search to find the trailers of this movie.

And then we saw it and I discovered why there was nothing around this movie.

So what this movie is about is Ben Affleck plays this detective and he trying to find out the details about his missing daughter, and that's where it starts. So he's investigating this bank rubbery.

It was supposed to be set in Austin. It looked nothing like downtown Austin. I don't know if it was like the Sepia tone film they used, oh yeah, but it looked like a deserted like like cowboy western film, with like the dust everywhere. And I'm like, Austin does not look like that, Like Elpaso doesn't even look like that.

Well, a big part of this movie I believe was filmed almost entirely on a set chucks out because Robert Driguez has his own production company in his own sets. So this movie very much felt like it was just enclosed in a situation instead of like in a real city. But yeah, I also picked up on the color scheme of this movie, and it just felt the way I describe it is it feels very much like a movie movie.

Yeah, because like some if you're watching a really good movie, it feels like a real story or like something that you can imagine happening. But this like felt it was a movie for nothing other than pure entertainment. And I don't even know that that I was that entertained because I was so confused, and I was distracted by the

And this was about maybe he's thirty forty minutes into the movie.

He was also in our seats.

But whatever we do, so where this movie went off the rails. It starts out with him trying to find out about his missing daughter, and then you learn about this bad guy who is manipulating people through hypnosis to get them to perform crimes. So Ben Affleck is trying to stop him. He goes and takes a tip from this. It gets more and more crazy as I talk about it. He goes, he takes this tip and goes to this.

Bank where somebody has said there's about to be a robbery.

And he is watching it, and then he breaks into the bank to try to.

Stop the discover weird things are happening because like this guy that they're looking at like hypnotizes this woman and she walks out into the street and like causes an accident and a distraction, and then the bank heist happens, and he like chases this guy, and then he sees more people getting hypnotized and doing weird things.

And ben Affleck goes into the safety deposit box and takes a picture that turns out to be a picture of his daughter, and he's like, why is this in here? And then the bad guys get away, and then.

They track down the phone call to like a tarot card reader, and he goes to her shop.

And she tells him about this bad guy who is like the most powerful hypnotic who is able to turn people into his minions basically.

But is it then that we learned that ben Affleck has some mind power, a wall in his mind.

That he can't he can't be controlled.

Which can I just go ahead and spoil it? Turns out because he's a hypnotic.

Done done done.

It goes on a very long and windy road to get there.

It gets very meta.

They keep chasing each other and then it gets to a point where not only can they control their minds but can also control what you see. So it felt like Inception style whenever all the buildings turn on their se So it really didn't really know what it wanted to be. And I think that's really where it lost me. It kind of felt like Robert Rodriguez wanted to make Inception without creativity. Yeah, it was like Inception, but at Dollar Tree he basically said, we have Inception at home

But we got to get back to the plot. Okay, we get back to the rest of the spoilers. It turns out that so he's like getting closer to remembering what happened to his daughter that day. Then we discover he like hacks the system. We discover he's a hypnotic, and that the tarot card reader was who he thought his wife was, and that their daughter is this top secret project called Domino because she's the child of two

Daughter worried hidden her re aah.

So then turns out we find out where she's hidden, there's a shootout, and then all the hypnotics lived happily ever after. Basically the movie, did I miss anything?

I think that's pretty much it. Okay, he just yeah, he discovers that he's a powerful hypnotic and did this whole thing to trick himself. So it was kind of like you put something in such a good hiding place that you yourself forget where it's hidden. And I did that.

One time where were we were on a trip somewhere and I had had a couple of margaritas the night before, and I woke up the next morning and I.

Was like, where's my engagement ring?

And you were like, did you lose it? And it was like in like the most safe place. It was like in a jewelry box, like where I would put something in the safe place, but I just like forgot that I had putten it in the safe place.

So you discovered that. They were, like you said, running all these scenarios and where I felt like maybe it was genius or maybe it was like genius on accident, is that while I was watching the movie, I said, I was very aware that I was watching a movie and it felt very orchestrated, and it had a bunch of cheesy cop lines. I think at one point his partner said something like, sounds like something my ex wife would say, one of the most cheesiest lines you could say.

And then it turns out because it was. It was the simulation, the simulation inside of a movie.

So then you see them reenact everything that you saw in the beginning of the movie, except the set wasn't there. It was just them in like prop cars, them on like exoskeletons of sets, going through all the same motions, like in a golf car instead of a car. So I was like, were they trying the whole time to make it seem like a cheesy movie, because in turn, that's exactly what it was. It was just the big fake production.

It was to the stay still.

Like the last episode of The Hills when they get out of the car on the set and you're just like, I just spent the last like five years as a teenager being lied to. That was more shocking though. Honestly, Yeah, so you're like, I didn't watch The Hills.

I did not watch The Hills. I was surprised Ben Affleck was even in this movie.

I mean, I wasn't surprised. Have you seen Geelie?

Yeah, well this is now his lowest grossing movie. It even surpasses Gly. The movie cost sixty five million dollars to make. At the time of recording, this only made less than three million dollars.

That is embarrassing.

How do you even have you done an episode about that? I think you have about like how do you recoup that? Like that's like sixty two down the drain?

Like what do you can.

Get a tax? Right off? I almost feel like this movie was made.

It hurts my brain.

That hurts my brain more than the movie hurts my brain is trying to figure out why you would even make a movie like this.

Also, what did they spend sixty five million dollars on? In this movie? It literally looked like a budget production.

It did. There was even one scene where they exploded a car and I could tell that it was a small set car, like a toy car, and just zoomed in really well and then they did the explosion. I was very aware of that.

How did they spend I would like to see their expidence. I want to see their expense reports. I want to see their budget.

They didn't spend it on They didn't spend it on promotion, which is usually a good chunk of a movie's budget. Well, they pay Ben for this, probably twenty million. I would love to do an interview with Oe because like a really raw, real interview and ask, at what point do you know that your movie isn't going well? Because I feel like since they didn't spend a lot of money promoting this movie, they knew it wasn't a great movie.

Have you ever made a movie and then like shelved it.

Yeah, the background movie that was supposed to come out on HBO Max pretty recently, they made the whole thing. The whole thing is made, and it okay, won't go up on HBO because without it going up, they can get it as a tax right off. If they were to put it out and it didn't do so well and people hated it. It would essentially hurt the DC brand even more. Is trying to recover right now.

I feel like there was another one years ago where there was like a scandal involving the main actor.

Yeah, it's happened in history, where something happens and movies don't come out. I think, yeah, I did an episode on movies that never saw the light of day, or.

They like recast really quickly that movie years ago that was about like the Getty family. Oh yeah, Kevin Spacey was supposed to be in it, and they like recast his part really quick and like refilmed all of those scenes. Yeah.

I don't feel like there was any real controversy around this movie. It was just it made a bad movie. They were parts of it that were still a little bit fun. It was just the only parts that were of any worth or any value was after the twist happened.

For me, there were shocking number of people in the theater though.

Yeah, it was a pretty full theater.

It was a smaller theater, but like fairly full, and a surprising number of people seeing that, Like I think that was the whole audience.

Yeah, I think that's everyone that was.

Yeah, everyone in the country was in that theater.

That was the that was the only screening.

Yeah, I've never seen somebody fall asleep and snore that heard in a movie.

I mean my dad has before, but it's like a very like slight snore and usually we like hit him a little bit. It was by himself and that lady did. We all laughed together at one point though, because he let out one snore that everyone in the theater was just like, yo, dude, it's a little loun I mean, I get it. It was cold in there. It was a Sunday afternoon, Saturday afternoon, one of those nice day for a nap.

It was comfy in there. Yeah, So I would say that I don't think this will hurt ben Affleck in the long run. He has the flash coming out.

I don't think at that point that like anything could really hurt your career. Like I feel like a lot of A listers have their A list stutus cemented by this is just personal opinion by a movie they've done in the past, and they can do things that like won't really hurt them. Like I love Nicole Kidman, love her. She's done some flops. Yeah, but like no one is like Nicole Kidman is a flop actor. She is still an A list household name and afflex. Adam Sandler's done

I think it was just the fact that it came right after Air, which was so good. He was really good in it, both acting and directing, and then he's gonna be in The Flash. It was just odd timing for this movie to come out. So I feel like, for me, he's reached a level of me just expecting more from him. So I thought, if he's in this movie, it has to be at least halfway decent, and the

And I was like, sure, why not?

But anyway, that is our views on Hypnotic. A rare case of it was unreviewable in a normal sense.

It did not hypnotize me. I was not hypnotized.

It's not. But oddly I've been more bored in other movies than this one. I was just so aware of the badness. It was almost to a point where it was so bad it was entertaining.

Thankfully was short.

Oh yeah, ninety minutes. If it was any longer, probably would have walked.

Out of it.

Yeah. I didn't feel like we needed if it had been any longer, I don't know what they would have added.

They wrapped it up. We got that.

We got it, like.

The sending action, the climax of it, the conclusion.

I think that is a saving great face to some movies if you can. If you're gonna make a bad movie, don't make a bad long movie, yeah, because then you'll really anger some people.

So is that three hour scorsesey one coming out supposed to be any good?

It looks good. Okay, it's a long movie.

I mean that's longer than Avatar. Yeah, and I struggled to make it through Avatar. It's more of just mentally preparing yourself for a movie that long.

Yeah.

I like a movie that long at home, where I can like pause and stretch my legs, get a snack, without missing anything.

And one you don't have to think about how many liquids you consume before going to see the movie.

Oh yeah, I'm just dooming no matter what.

Like if I don't have a large diet pepsi through the whole film, I can't enjoy it.

Honestly, peeing in a movie isn't that big of adace. You don't really miss a whole lot.

In the movie.

The looks clarifying being in the theater. Nobody really cares. It's dark, no one sees anything. It's just that vicious sound of water hitting carpet. Alright, alright, this review is gone. There's no carpet on the stairs. Are you peeing on the stairs in the movie theater? Yeah? Exactly, it's not walking on the way down there.

Okay, this review is gone downhill.

But that has been our spoiler review of Hypnotic. A rare case that I say, don't go see it in theaters, don't stream it. All you had to do was listen to this review. Anything else that we missed about that.

It kind of makes me think of like when Tenant was trying to be like all.

Like yeah, mind Bendy.

Trying to do too much be too into perspective.

But it was not mind bendy.

It was not. Anytime a movie is described as being mind bending, it's not going to be mind bending terrible. But until next time, go out and watch good movies unlike this, so not this one, and until next time, I will talk to you later