 Friend request kind of felt obligated to see this movie. My name is Brennan Keith Avery and this is just my opinion Now friend requests, I think I only saw this trailer once and When I was on my way to the theater walking up about to grab my seat I was just saying like I really don't remember much about this movie. It being advertised. It being marketed So just by me saying that you can pretty much tell that my expectation Level was extremely low, but you know, it does have a good premise I mean, it's called friend request that has to do with social media Pretty much everywhere you look there is somebody that has a Facebook Twitter Instagram or whatever So, you know, this movie is keeping up with the times This usually seems like a movie that will be released in January the toilet bowl season of movies and pretty much Everything crappy comes out during that time But they decided to release this at the very beginning of fall in 2017 you know after the summer movie season now this movie is being directed by Simon Simon Verhoeven I've never heard of him before the only films that he's done was a few foreign Flicks and I haven't seen those before and there really isn't any, you know known actors or actresses in this movie either But my expectations below what the movie is about is you have this girl named Laura and She's just a college student and she gets a friend request From some random girl one day and you know, they start to have a brief friendship Things don't work out and then the crap hits the fan People start dying and they have to get to the bottom of it and just figure out what's going on And I like I mean, I like the premise You know from the start this you know, it does seem like a cheap, you know scary movie that you know They didn't put any money in didn't invest anything that they're just trying to you know Throw some you know have a simple plot though some jump scares in there and then make a return back on the on the Fall, you know from releasing this worldwide This comes out this Friday Excuse me September 22nd, but this was released back in Like overseas like back in June and July and over in Italy and Europe and a number of other countries and you know The budget is 9.9 million. I was very surprised when I saw that budget You know, I was thinking this could have been like, you know, four to five million dollars But I'm not gonna harp too much on that and at the very beginning of the movie It did kind of start out pretty good. I liked it initially. It had a very nice sombre tone You had a college professor, you know, he had the first lines of dialogue in the movie and just you know Him alone was able to set the tone and you find out that there. Well, I don't want to say that that there is a There is a you know, I'm not gonna say that because that's a spoiler, but I'm just gonna break this movie down into parts excuse me the plot the characters and You know pretty much, you know, did I like the movie didn't make sense The plot itself It just didn't make sense. I'm tired of movies like this where the studios They just don't give a crap anymore to where they will come up with a great premise But the plot to get from point A to B just doesn't make any sense They, you know, when they do things like this, I feel like, you know, they're insulting the audience And that really does bother me I mean, it seems like they're just making these movies just for cash grabs because as it's like Let's just invest as little money as possible Have an average plot and we'll make a return back on default and I just don't you know Like that at all because the plot just doesn't add up in too many instances. I mean like, you know, there's a Murder a suicide, you know, but no one is asking the right questions at the right time and they're ignoring all the evidence Excuse me, you also have like these two cops and I know that may seem like I'm talking about the characters But I'm gonna bring this back to the plot. I mean, these are cops That's what their job is to investigate But they don't know how to investigate the main characters in this movie are the ones that are doing a better job at Investigating Bassasta cops are and you know, you have one average cop this black guy But then you have this other this other dude and he's just incompetent like I mean, you know, he just says all the wrong things at the wrong times And it's just like do in a real-world professional setting nothing like this what happened, you know And you know, I said I'm jumping all over the place and I just don't care because I have a high disdain for this movie But it's like for example, there's this one scene where there's a girl that you know killed herself and Of course to her friends and family are distraught So when they're like in the hospital or something, you know, you should try to console them and you know be there for him But this cop is saying like hey, you know, what the hell happened to her Are there some new drugs in the street that I haven't heard about trying to make it some luck, you know Quirky joke like that. I mean like, you know, why would you say something like that? Why would you do that? I mean these are the type of characters that we have this movie that you're supposed to like I mean in the same cop he did something else to where like another woman, you know Had a serious head injury or whatever and when he sees in the hospital He just looks at her while she's like in a body cast bleeding from all orifices of her body and he just looks at her like Oh, it looks like somebody had a bad day. Like why the hell would you say something like that? I mean she's dying and she didn't do it on purpose even if she did That's just not anything that you would say to somebody. It just doesn't make any sense But the main thing that I really just didn't like about this movie is all the characters that met their early demise They didn't deserve it at all and the antagonist the killer the demon or whatever you want to call it The person going around sending friend requests. They're praying on people that did absolutely nothing to them at all I mean, you know, and I'm getting passionate about it, but you know, if you look at the poster That's the antagonist of this movie It's this lonely girl who walks around with a hoodie and she's like super duper duper weird She has zero friends on Facebook. She's in class with this girl named Laura and wants to invite her to be a friend And Laura doesn't do anything mean to her. She's just like, okay, you know, this girl does and you know Anytime somebody request your friend on Facebook or whatever you just I don't know unless you're just super lonely or something You click their profile and you kind of look to see what their profile is And you know what kind of pictures they have what kind of post to have especially if you don't know the person I mean, that's just normal behavior and Laura did exactly that. She didn't like, oh, who is this crazy girl trying to be my friend? I'm part of the cool crowd. I'm not gonna hang out with her. It was nothing like that I mean Laura is a nice sweet innocent girl that just wants to live her life and get an education And then when you see the friend when you see when you see the crazy person's Facebook profile, it looks freaking insane Like I would I would I would delete my account if somebody asked to be my friend with their profile looking like this But no Laura just you know, hey, I'm gonna be nice, you know, this girl doesn't have any friends You know, hey, maybe I can be her her first friend And so you know their friends and they start hanging out and they only hang out one time and they're just walking Having a normal conversation and I'm not gonna spoil the movie for you I promise you and what they find the Laura has a birthday coming up and The girl has only been knowing Laura for like less than a week And it's one is to invite herself to the party and you know, Laura's like, okay You know if it was kind of just me and you maybe that'd be cool But I'm gonna have my friends or whatever so, you know, Laura dodges it goes to the party and that pisses the girl off And just after that that's I mean Laura could have just said hey, you know, this was a you know I she told the girl like hey, you know I would let you let you kick it with me about my party with my party but it's just gonna be my me and my boyfriend and you know, we're just gonna do a solo thing and You know, that's not what happened It's actually her and her whole friends so they go to the party and you know how people tag you on Like in pictures and stuff like that It pops up on Facebook and so the crazy person can see that, you know Laura was lying to her and that's when the crap really hits the fan And there's a confrontation and I don't want to spoil it for you here and just you know Talk about this movie bit bit by bit piece by piece But basically Laura did nothing wrong nothing wrong at all But the crazy girl just wants to take out all of her anger and frustration out on Laura And I just found that completely stupid idiotic and just you know, there was no rhyme reason for her to do that I mean if that was going to be the plot of this movie give us a reason to why Laura Deserve the punishment to her and know how her friends were receiving but no No, no one in this movie other than let me see other than one person towards the end Nobody in this movie deserve to die I mean, you know that the it would have been so much better if the movie could have given you a valid reason to why these people are Dying but there I mean it was just like I mean this is just stupid I mean we have a crazy person taking our anger and frustration on people that did absolutely nothing wrong I mean, of course you can say we're burning I mean, that's what we could make it good because they're just so crazy and psychotic No, nothing in this movie like made sense just from a common sense standpoint For example, like, you know, there's this one building that they're trying to research and they found out that it burned down It was set on fire and destroyed 20 years ago But then they decided to visit that same building 20 years ago and the building is still standing I mean like there's still paint on outside of the of the building You know, you still have pictures on the wall over here I mean like didn't this building burn down 20 years ago? Why is it still up? Why can people still go into it? Why it hasn't this building been ripped down or turn turned down destroyed? I mean, it's just a lot of common sense things like that that the writers of this movie wanted to you know Act like you wouldn't know or realize but no, you know, I'm not the smartest guy in the world You know, I have you know average intelligence or slightly above average intelligence But they the the writers of this movie pretended like you was born yesterday And they just continue to ignore things like this in this movie but you're just you know forced to sit there and Try to be scared and it's not scary either. I mean the movie is so predictable with his jump scares I mean, you know, there's a group of people and then once you know Somebody's by themselves and it's at night time then they hear a noise and the lights won't come on and they go around the corner Hey guys, are you there? This isn't funny and then you know the music comes up and then they're looking at some mirror or something Then ah something jumps out and it's a jump scare Then the scene is over within this next time. It is daytime the next day and you know And then 15 minutes later it just keeps repeating itself is night time Somebody's in the place by themselves You get this creepy thing here this creepy thing there and then ah, there's a jump scare And this is like over and over and over again and like what they did give me one time with a jump scare I did scream like oh shit, you know, it's scary But at the same time it was annoying and I still knew that it was coming It's so annoying that it's just like hard to talk about this movie because after like the first 20 minutes You're just really wanting it to be over because you've seen this type of movie over and over and over again Like, you know 50 times and it's just like okay, give me something new Give me something to wear when I get home. I am gonna be afraid to go to sleep I'm gonna have to leave all the lights on but you know No, you know, there's just nothing to like that at all I Mean the characters are fine. They don't deserve to die But the main the main bad guy the main antagonist was just I mean it was just so elementary I like these are college students and they're acting like they like that the Antagonist is acting like you know, she's five or six years old like I mean asking questions like hey Are you mad at me? What did I do? Do you want to be friends, dude? I mean like that stuff that people saying like kindergarten and five six years old You know people don't talk like that as a young adult. I mean, it's just like give me a realistic character You know, don't give me anybody, you know, the stereotypic gothic person that goes around like just like I don't have any friends I want to be my friends, but you know, that's just a movie again I don't even want to talk about this movie anymore. Like it's just really it was just a lazy cheap attempt and You know, I'm really frustrated with it. I mean the antagonist was piss-poor crap the movie wasn't scary It was annoying. We had dumb cops saying rule lines all over the place You know a lot of people was dying and they just didn't deserve that You know, it just you know too many decisions in this movie or just you know not like another thing It's like okay like this one girl is getting blamed for all these these murders and killings and whatnot, right? And nobody can figure it out even the cops are saying to themselves like hey This doesn't add up it doesn't make sense But towards the end of the movie instead of getting like a team of 50 people or 10 people You know going in deep to try to you know save the day She wants to go across the country by herself or with her boyfriend or like her ex-boyfriend No, like if the cops know you I mean get let hey, I'm going over here. I think I figured it out I'm gonna send you the address. I'm awake. It's just like why would you not involve the cops? It's just like decision like this or just like, you know crazy if I had to rate this movie friend requests out of a one out of ten I would give it a one. No, I just gave a out of a yeah out of a one out of ten I would give it a one out of ten. Yes a one out of ten, but guys, that's just my opinion Have you seen Rick friend request? Do you want to see it? Have I turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know in the comment section below Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing If you liked this video go ahead and give me the thumbs up and if you don't like this video That's fine. 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