It's What's Inside

Screened on Netflix.

Normally this would get a 2.5-star designation, but I'm rating it three stars mostly out of recognition of a few things. It's well-made overall, casting and acting is good, and there is a unique style afoot here for sure, though interestingly muted compared to recent, similar movies. And overall I can see there would be an appeal here, especially for younger generations. My problem with this is two-fold. One, this is another example in the general trend of movies produced by the big streamers, of them feeling more like "content" than it does a film (can a movie shot digitally ever be called a "film"?). It's a disturbing trend for the outlook of cinema. I remain faithful. Second, and maybe this is just me showing my age, but I strongly feel that it's a pretty heavy lift to ask audiences to understand, never-mind care what's going on when you quickly "introduce" EIGHT characters, then barely let the audience get to know them or their stories on any serious level, and then have them all swap bodies ... multiple times?! I could not have lost interest any quicker, but still I stuck through it due to some of that style director Greg Jardin was displaying. He also wrote this, so I think it's where it could have used some love and advice. Shift all that energy to directing, you may have something there, fella.