Review of The Five

The Five (2016)
4/10
Illogical, ridiculously unrealistic, and slow
23 December 2020
I wanted to like this, and even though I was pretty confused throughout I watched the whole thing just to see if or how it all came together... and it didnt. The acting was good but the plot made no sense at all, the subplots were completely unrelated to anything at all (they could almost be completely different shows) and the characters were ridiculously reckless and dumb. There were so many holes, so many parts of the subplot that had no conclusion, it was just massively disappointing.

It was also just so unrealistic it was hard to even believe or feel invested for most of it. Like the friend that was on his own little killing spree, considering most of it was unplanned and random, there's no way he didnt leave dna or other forensic evidence pointing to him. The guy finds out who he is, and thinks it makes more sense to break into houses and burn pictures than to just have a conversation and ask questions? There's just a lot to unpack, very little of which makes sense. And the ending just makes it all feel like you really just waisted hours of your life for it to be a totally left field "plot twist" out of no where.
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