Lucky

Warning! If you don’t like it when a film gives you something different than what you expected, don’t watch this one expecting a straightforward genre flick. The trailer touted, rather misleadingly, a home invasion horror thriller, spiced up with a time loop, but Lucky is actually an absurd parable of self-development packed with almost Kafkaesque moments. The core premise is about how it is to be a woman in the modern world, but you can find many other motifs. For instance, how to solve problems and adapt to difficulties – if you’re in trouble you will have to rely only on yourself. Or that when someone tells you that you’re lucky, they are usually mistaken. It was fun. (2021.03.05)

Pretty disappointing. According to the trailer, Lucky with a home invasion with a time loop, but in the end it's completely different, it’s not even a horror movie but a social satire full of metaphors from the #Metoo era about how women have it hard in life. Poor women. Directed, of course, by feminist Natasha Kermani. On the one hand, the film is original; on the other hand, it's kind of useless because everything that happens is weird, every minute you have more questions, and when the end comes you feel like jumping out the window because they don't explain absolutely anything to you because they don't know it themselves. Aside from the fact that nothing is explained, almost nothing makes sense, the killer doesn't really try – he could have killed the protagonist at any time, but he is fighting for women's rights, isn't he? They could have done a nice job with the gore here, there were countless possibilities, but the murders are more reminiscent of PG-13 thrillers from 2000s. The only scene that stood out to me was the one in the garage, but that seems woefully lacking. Unfortunately, it's not suspenseful, atmospheric, or brutal. It was filmed quite OK and I was willing to go for three stars while watching it until the ending, which ruined the whole thing. The higher percentage on tomatoes the less horror, that's already already clear. 4/10. (2021.03.07)