What’s It About
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Seattle, an agoraphobic tech worker discovers evidence of a violent crime while reviewing a data stream, and is met with resistance and bureaucracy when she tries reporting it to her company. To get involved, she realizes she must face her greatest fear by venturing out of her apartment and into the city streets, which are filled with protestors after the city council passes a law restricting the movements of the homeless population.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
I can’t believe I sat through this ninety-minute piece of crap. Based on this movie’s marketing and various blurbs, I expected an updated version of Hitchcock’s Rear Window. They all lied. Kimi is a slow and confusing thriller that uses the first hour to try and give its characters purpose but fails horribly. The protagonist, Angela, is a public crowd and germ-fearing employee of the company that produces Kimi, A smart device and AI similar to Alexa or Siri. Angela’s job is to listen to unresolved requests asked of Kimi and update the software with the correct responses to various questions, and yes, it is as boring as it sounds. Surprisingly, her job was still more exciting than she was. Throughout the film, her attitude towards any and everyone sucks. Then somewhere about twenty minutes into the movie, she hears something unusual. At this point, this movie should have taken off and been the thrilling drama it promised to be, but no. Kimi dragged along for another twenty-five minutes before getting remotely interesting. Apparently, there are other characters just as one-dimensional and dull as Angela. Unfortunately, it was too little, too late, since it looked like they threw everything into the last fifteen minutes of the movie. Kimi should never have been a movie, but rather an episode of some one-hour crime series. As is, it is undeniable they stretched out much of the scenes and added an unnecessary sex scene that served no real purpose other than giving the director a “valid” reason to show Zoë Kravitz’s size A breasts.
OUR RATING – A NO THRILLS 3