Spiderhead (2022)

Spiderhead (2022)

2/10

 Starring

Chris Hemsworth

Miles Teller

Jurnee Smollett

 

Directed by Joseph Kosinski

 

Another Netflix movie that is not worth your time.

I thought Interceptor (Elsa Pataky) was one of the worst Netflix movies I’d seen in a while, but Chris Hemsworth seemed to say, "Hold my beer." Apparently, his wife’s movie couldn’t be the worst—his had to take that title. Spiderhead is a B-movie with a myopic purpose (if you even try to look at the big picture), no point, and a waste of money on what’s supposed to be a psychological thriller. Anyone with common sense can rip this apart in seconds.

The writer of this movie had a narrow view of the world and based the story on it.

Contains Spoilers

The movie is about a facility where people signed up for a drug program—or at least, that’s what they thought. In reality, they were unknowingly enrolled in a program testing a drug called B-6, which is meant to make you obedient no matter what you feel.

Steve (Hemsworth) runs the facility, testing B-6 alongside other drugs that make you feel things like hunger, pain, or lust. The idea is to see how far he can push people to obey when under the influence of B-6.

The ultimate goal? A world hooked on B-6. But here’s where the logic falls apart. The government is against this plan, and the police are after Steve. Just Steve. Somehow, he thinks he can single-handedly implement a drug that would turn humanity into remote-controlled robots.

How was he going to achieve this by himself? How would the world even be a better place if everyone became mindless?

If the movie had included something like the government working on this drug, ending with a whistleblower exposing everything, it might have made sense. But no—a single guy is supposed to pull this off? Give me a break.

This movie feels like The Manchurian Candidate, except with poor writing, a bad plot, and a director who clearly just wanted a paycheck.

How Steve’s Plan Unravels

Steve’s plan falls apart because he hired someone who wasn’t entirely on board with his vision. One of the volunteers manages to convince this guy, Mark, to turn on Steve.

This twist is one of the laziest ways to introduce a weakness in a villain’s plan. Hire someone who isn’t as deranged as you, then have them flip after someone talks to them. And let’s talk about Mark—the "backstabber." He was fine with all the crimes and experiments happening right in front of him… until someone talked him into flipping. What a useless minion.

Netflix, maybe take a break from making films for a while.