Wounds (2019)

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  Moviegeek98

  2 / 10

  An aimlessly macabre horror feature that’s near incomprehensible, “Wounds”, directed by Babak Anvari, is a bafflingly horrid travesty that’s nothing more than a tediously empty horror exercise filled with nonsensical f**kery.
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  The plot follows an asshole bartender who, after breaking up a brawl in his bar, picks up a lost mobile phone that was left by a group of underaged students. He just so happens to guess the password based on the “screen smudges” and slowly loses his mind.
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  Abandoning potentially thoughtful themes of how wounds in a relationship force the participants to become distant and making little sense of its own narrative, the film is a jarringly vague experience that it soon feels more sketched than scripted. The film dives into its “horror” once Armie Hammer picks up the stranger’s phone and every single item in his world morphs into a poorly executed jump scare that flashes on the screen in rapid succession. The harder the film cleaves to the idea that its mysterious evil force is just a metaphor for its character’s inner ugliness, the worse and worse the plot unfolds with baffling writing, horrible characters, and stiff acting from Hammer himself. It’s telling that the most intriguing plot element in the entire feature is when Hammer just sits at his laptop and Googles some generic occult nonsense. There’s a chance he might stumble across the plot of a better film. Unfortunately, he doesn’t.
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  “Wounds” will make you absolutely regret wasting your time on this poorly conceived horror slog that does exactly nothing with its narrative and turn this 90 minute feature into an incoherent mess. Even actors Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson feel stiff as a rock as they try to muster through this atrocious series of shock images and forgettable storytelling that will surely leave a wound on you.

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