HBO KIMI - Streaming February 10, 2022

[Space Cadet]

4.00 star(s) Rating: 4.00/5 1 Votes

Title: KIMI (2022)

Tagline: She's not the only one listening.

Genre: Thriller, Science Fiction

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Cast: Zoë Kravitz, Byron Bowers, Jaime Camil, Jacob Vargas, Derek DelGaudio, Erika Christensen, Devin Ratray, Rita Wilson, India de Beaufort, Robin Givens, Emily Kuroda

Release: 2022-02-10

Runtime: 149

Plot: After an agoraphobic tech worker discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime during an ordinary data stream review, she tries reporting it up the chain of command at her company. Met with resistance and bureaucracy, she realizes that in order to get involved she will have to do the thing she fears the most — leave her apartment.

 

[Lenny Nero]

Nothing new here, everything we've seen somewhere before, like agoraphobic Sigourney Weaver in CopyCat, which was better, or creepy fat stalker neighbor coming to help, like in Hardware, mixed in with more 'modern' voice-assisted Siri-like tech, and corporate conspiracy.
Main character is kind of unlikable, treats everyone around her pretty bad, and behaves the whole film like a robot.
Still, as it's from David Koepp, writer-director of some of my favorite movies, like Trigger Effect and Stir of Echoes, and writer of Panic Room, I had to see it, and its overall secondary derivative parts somehow make up a tight thriller.