Incoming (2024)

Incoming (2024)

6/10

Starring          

Mason Thames

Ramon Reed

Bardia Seiri

Raphael Alejandro

 

Directed by Dave Chernin and John Chernin

 

The whole movie is like a remake of the coming-of-age 2007 movie, Superbad. I enjoyed this movie enough to give it a good rating, it is not a great movie, but it was good enough.

If you have seen any coming-of-age movie, you have seen this, but it was still fun. I liked the way it did not waste so much time trying to build us up. Things just start going down, everything just gets started and it became a shit-show (a literal one at some point).

I can understand why many will not like this movie, because they will feel like Superbad did it better, and maybe it did, but to have a movie have so much happening from two fronts is fun. The characters all had an angle and something to prove to themselves, and how some achieved some clarity, some grew and became adults is nice to see.

The movie is about four friends, who just got into high school. They are, Benj, who has a crush on his sister’s best friend. Eddie whose mother is dating a douche who takes advantage of him in his own house, because Eddie is laid back and just wants to get on with life. Connor who is the same age as the others but is smaller and is tired of being a nobody. The last one is Danah, the one guy in every group of friends who is actually crazy and thinks he can become somebody legendary.

Danah’s brother Koosh is having a party in his place and tells Danah he can bring his friends. Danah invites his three friends, only for on that day Koosh tells him that only one of the friends can come in. Benj asked to be the one, because he had hopes of getting his sister’s best friend to be his. The other two were upset with Danah for not being man enough to let them in and left, not even giving a fight with Benj to get in. You will need to see the movie yourself to see all the things that Benj and Danah got up to at the party. How Benj was able to get the girl alone and tell her how he felt and how Danah trapped a girl in a room with him, with the hopes of getting laid.

The other two took Eddie’s mother’s boyfriend’s car and had a night they will never forget themselves. Which, in the end, was able to get them to have the respect that Connor wanted and helped Eddie to stand up for himself and tell the man in his house to behave.

Nice movie to catch on Netflix if you have the time, I found it was worth the watch.