Killing your time Quarantine in connection with covid - 19 came out for many movemakers productive: was shot a lot of TV series and films with the theme of removal and it is successful from the point of view of production - the costs are minimal, and people have nothing to watch, because nothing new is not removed, so watch anything. But making a good movie using only a laptop screen is difficult, because in the absence of entertainment you need to focus on the script. Even before the pandemic, this genre was tried for a long time - ' Remove from friends' (2015), 'Death in the network' (2013), 'Open Windows' (2014). These films are probably the most famous thrillers in this genre. Did you manage ' Online Murder' get close to their level?
The intrigue will not last long: it failed. Murder online is one of the most depressing thrillers I've ever seen. There is nothing in it: no tension, no intrigue, no sense of empathy for the main characters. The film is completely empty and meaningless. Essentially it's made for one thing - 'unexpected' turn at the end. The film is built according to the following scenario: a long, drawn-out beginning - the main event that creates the plot - an absolutely meaningless, protracted, boring running, which leads to nothing and leads to nothing - an unexpected (but only in the authors' opinion) end. If you have even the slightest intellect, you at the beginning will understand this twist, which leads us to 1.5 hours. I knew exactly how it would end.
Heroes behave absolutely illogical, cynical and indifferent. The whole movie wants to ask them - ' Are you idiots? No one is going to do that [39]. And I understand that this is a movie, and in it the main characters often behave specifically, because otherwise an interesting film will not work. But here the heroes themselves do not understand why they do this! They just randomly without hesitation throw each other ideas of how to act, as if their lives do not depend on it, and they, like us, watch this film on TV.
It’s hard to even evaluate acting against the background of this idiotic scenario. There are no complaints about the actors, but how can you evaluate their talent according to such a scenario?
Bottom line: I don’t think this movie is worth watching. The only plus that it has (and that subjective) is the mention of the pandemic and the relevance of events taking place in the world. That's all.
3 out of 10