Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
Spyro Rating: 4,5 /10 as "Experimental"
Director: David Slade - Writer: Charlie Brooker
Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Will Poulter, Craig Parkinson, Asim Chaudhry
For better or for worse there are times when movie producers dare to try new things. Innovation is always appreciated, however that does not exclude the result from getting judged. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is an "Interactive Film" on Netflix, this means that you are influencing the plot by choosing "A" or "B" in several scenes.
The movie is about choices, the main character understands that his life is about choices, he develops a video game about choices, the video game is influenced by a book about choices. No matter which ones are made, there is no way to escape a bad ending. The film is set in a way that several endings will be experienced in the same instance.
Safe to say this choices mechanism interrupts the movie and is not fun. I watched the movie once and it didn't felt that most choices mattered, some paths are less charted than others and those paths will return you back to the same scenes prompting you to change your initial choice in order to advance the movie. Don't watch this film, instead go for the Black Mirror series as some of those episodes are gold.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) trailer
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) trailer
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