Why so much hype?

An action-packed slog

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

In the beginning it was sparkling with mysterious vibes. But the flavor went numb vanishing slowly but surely in the ambient sound.One thing good about this movie that the GAY theme is so subtly put in the form of frogs. I wonder why American movies must include gay theme on their stories, not everyone is willing to watch them. Am I right? Mind control eh?So, back to the movie, this one is a full frontal feminist freight train. The woman was portrayed as an amazing genius character switcher. And the man was an ordinary working class numb skull. Too stupid to see the big picture.I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but the idea of the lead woman being able to do what she does that is quite interesting. Or not at all, because to manipulate people is human nature some had it big some small. I just think this woman was crazy and heartless, like so many of them these days, cold and unforgiving and loveless.Amen

This film is a drama, not so much a mystery, and it has an actual storyline, with characters who can grow and learn while dealing with life-changing decisions.It is not boring, unless the viewer needs either a lot of exposition or explosions. Without going into spoilers, I can say that there are some seemingly implausible aspects, but nothing in the film is actually impossible to believe.As already stated, the characters grow and change, and deal with decisions that will impact their lives, and I was pleasantly surprised with the ending, as it was unexpectedly uplifting.

The producers of "Complete Unknown" may have envisaged a profound existential drama about human identity. But unwittingly, the film lapses into comedy with the preposterous character played by Rachel Weisz.It is difficult to associate the main character with a single name because she is constantly changing it. She was originally known to Tom as "Jennie" (or Jennifer). But suddenly, she left home, leaving her parents in a state of shock that eventually led to the death of her father.While in Mexico, Jennie became "Consuela." She went to China and became a magician's assistant named "Mae." In South Africa, she became "Vanessa." Later, she became "Sasha." She was "Constance," who traveled along the Amazon in the rain forest with a group of botanists. She was "Paige," who worked in a hospital in anesthesia. She traveled to Tasmania where she became "Alice." Now, she returns to "surprise" her old friend Tom on his birthday.With the exception of Tom's wife Ramina, a talented jeweler with a promising future, the other characters in this film are not only weird, but are downright repellent. The oddest moment is when Tom leaves the bar with Alice without saying a word to Ramina. He then slavishly follows Alice around, playing along with making up false identities as doctors to assist an elderly woman who has sprained her ankle. He then asks to see her research area where the frogs croak, but he is not really interested in frogs. He wants only to see if Alice is even telling the truth.The film offers no clues as to how Alice could change her name on passports and drivers' licenses with so many different names. Alice is clearly a nut, and this is where the scenes and lines of dialogue often turn into comedy. In one defining moment in the film's prologue, Alice has returned to her family's home and waits for her mother to leave. There is nothing to suggest that she even wants to make contact with her mom. To put it mildly, Alice needs help. And so do audiences who have to suffer through her neurosis and so many name changes for an hour and a half.

Despite its intriguing premise, this film never really makes it. The acting, given the talent brought into it, is excellent, but the script provides nothing good for an audience to take hold of. It doesn't help that the first five minutes are so badly written/edited, you'll have no idea what's going on. The characters are intolerable people. Any other people would have said no to the invite to Tom's birthday party. They're not hateful or bad people, but they're either spineless, pretentious, or selfish, all to a degree that is utterly unlikable. Furthermore, the plot consists of mostly flat dialogue. The few moments when it feels like some real conflict is going to build, it fizzles out before it goes anywhere meaningful. Rachel Weisz does her best with the material, but by the tenth or fifteenth painfully obvious lie, it's infuriating that people believe her and that the people who know she's lying are so willing to shrug it off and continue interacting with her.