Best movie ever!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Unclear story, lots of unanswered questions, this is totally a waste of time.

Let's Be Evil contains very good ideas but bad developed. The main feature of the movie is that is shot in first person perspective, through the special glasses that the company give to everyone. Another thing that I really enjoyed are the visual effects and the lightning. Being a fan of the cyberpunk culture this is the only thing that I really liked.There's not much to say about the story: a group of people that has financial problem accept a job offer from a mysterious company to look after a bunch of high skilled kids that have been chosen for a new fast learning program. All the structure is managed by an artificial intelligence named Arial. At a certain point, you don't even why, kids are turning against the structure, take control of the whole program. The next half of the movie is based on wrong choices by the three tutors, that make everything possible to get themselves killed. The ending then, it's completely no sense: maybe the director wanted to do some kind of social complaint saying that technology make us live in some kind of loop from which we can't escape, but it's not really clear.The casting choice wasn't really wise. The three main actors are not really good, especially Jenny, the main character, is pretty annoying if you ask me. Darby and Tiggs are completely anonymous: when they have to convey fear or some kind of emotions, they made me laugh instead. Kids are not really scary and apart from a few jumpscares, which I personally hate, there is nothing else. This movie could have been nice: I really liked the idea to shot it for the whole time with the alternate first person persective of the three tutors, but that's it. I don't even know which genre is it, because for sure this is not an horror movie.

Jenny (Elizabeth Morris) is struggling with money and caring for her bedridden mother. She gets hired along with Tiggs (Kara Tointon) and Darby (Elliot James Langridge) as chaperons in an underground facility. She is surprised to learn the subjects are little children being trained in a learning program with augmented reality. Everybody has to wear special glasses to see. There is the AI named Arial (Jamie Bernadette) to assist the newcomers. There are no other adults around. The kids communicate through the virtual reality and remains silent except for Cassandra (Isabelle Allen) who befriends Jenny.The movie is mostly filmed in the first person POV through those augmented reality glasses. As long as there are two or more people in the scene, it can switch back and forth almost like a regular movie. It's not until Jenny is alone that the movie is forced to be a solo camera affair. The camera restrictions and the glasses on everybody do distant the audience from the acting. I don't think the acting is bad but it is constrained. On the other hand, there is an opening rant that screams cheesy B-movie. The over-the-top acting there needs to be cut.One of the problem is that these are kids with no real superpowers. Nobody picks up a weapon, or even a stick. It's obvious the augmented reality could be compromised by the kids from the beginning. This is literally a horror that could be solved by a simple flashlight. It would be more compelling to have the augmented reality forced on them like an injected microchip. I kept thinking they should take off those glasses and light up the situation through another means. There is also a twist that is obvious from the start. It's completely expected and I simply waited for it to happen. The only positive is that the augmented reality looks fine especially if you compare it to the spartan bunker setting.

A good idea gone wrong is in sum, the best way to describe this movie. Although the idea was filled with potential, the execution and also some of the parts of the idea itself were poorly thought out. From the very beginning, any viewer accustomed to this genre of film, knows exactly what's going on and how it all is gonna end. It definitely doesn't help that both the movie poster and the title already practically tells you everything you need to know.Then you got the cast. Newbies, but actually reasonable and sometimes good in their roles. Although we never actually feel attached to any of them. Because the movie doesn't allow you to.Then there's the obvious enemy. So predictable and so unbelievable, you can't accept what you're seeing. I mean, we're talking about adult people with the IQ's of a potato that let themselves be dominated and killed by children. Unarmed, defenseless children, which only weapon is that they can mess with what the characters perceive, because of the obvious tool being used to manipulate them.And yet none of them has the common sense to stop for a minute and think "Wait! It's the glasses. They're manipulating me and misleading me through the glasses. I'll make a torch with the materials available to me, take this glasses off and teach this kids a much needed lesson."If they were dealing with teenagers, I'd be more inclined to believe what I was seeing. But a bunch of kids that can easily take down a grown man, and he simply lets himself be killed... There's only so much one can see and accept.You can see this movie, but it will left you with the sense of wasted time. There's those movies you can simply miss and never see them, and you will not actually lose anything. This is that kind of movie.