Without demanding much, Hypnotic – Invisible Threat fulfills the function of entertaining [REVIEW]

It’s always interesting to watch films that touch our reality. A reference in cinema is Christopher Nolanwhich has already affected our perception on at least two occasions: Amnesialaunched in 2000, and The originwhich hit theaters ten years later and is, to this day, one of the filmmaker’s most popular films.

It is in the wake of productions of the type that Hypnotic: Invisible Threatnew feature film Robert Rodriguez – one of the most versatile filmmakers in the industry, responsible for productions such as A drink in hell (1996), Little spies (2001), Sin City – The City of Sin (2005) and Machete (2010) -, arrives in Brazilian cinemas from this Thursday, October 26th.

In the new venture, Rodriguez put Ben Affleck (Gone Girl) as a detective distraught by the disappearance of his daughter. During a mission to stop a bank robbery, the character of Affleck, Daniel Rourkediscovers a clue about the child’s whereabouts, which leads him on a new search for her.

Soon, he finds himself involved in a criminal conspiracy, which plays with his reality, and counts on the help of the mysterious Diana Cruz (Alice Braga, The Suicide Squad), a woman endowed with psychic powers, to follow the tracks of a man, who Rourke believes he is responsible for the girl’s disappearance.

I started this text by saying that it is always interesting to watch films that affect our reality, and it is. Whether they are accompanied by good stories or not, I still find the experience of wandering the clues and trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together to finally understand everything that is going on to be fun.

It is the case that Hypnotic. There is nothing brilliant about the novelty and, in fact, it presents some exhausting points, such as the need to always be surprising to the public, with small revelations that, over the course of the story, end up losing their strength, because the public stops believing that any event is true and, therefore, there are no more surprises.

The film’s script, written by Rodriguez himself in partnership with Max Borenstein (Lakers: Time to Win), still has the problem of chewing the story before delivering it, without giving the viewer the slightest chance to walk on their own two feet – and the worst of all is that there was no need for that, because the film already does that, needing just one or another explanation to contextualize the plot.

Hypnotic It does not allow itself to rely on the strength of its own narrative, perhaps for fear of becoming too big for the public. It’s a bad thing, because it sacrifices the story itself in the process, despite making it more accessible to any type of audience, which is great. In the end, the novelty is fun enough for you to forget your weaknesses, take advantage of the dictatorship and just enjoy an hour and a half of thriller police officer.

It’s a film made for Maximum Temperature, a range of action films on Globo, which doesn’t demand much from the viewer and you can watch it without thinking too much, while digesting your Sunday lunch. You may not remember it the next day or feel the need to mention it in conversation, but the experience of watching Hypnotic will have been, at the very least, satisfactory.