I See You - One Well Crafted Psychological Thriller with Multiple Twists that would Truly Shock Audience

Last night there was a new movie that premiered on Fox Movies which I never heard of, but when I saw the very brief synopsis on it, I was really intrigued. And so when the film finally showed at 8PM, I poured my attention to this interesting movie. OK, I'll just get on with it now.

Brief Story Line

Jackie (Helen Hunt - Twister, As Good As It Gets etc) was having a strained relationship with her husband Greg (Jon Tenney - The Closer TV series) and their only son Connor (Judah Lewis - The Babysitter etc) due to something she did before. They lived in a big house which for some reasons started to have strange things happening without proper explanation.

Meanwhile Greg was appointed as lead detective partnering with Officer Spitzky (Gregory Alan Williams - Baywatch TV series etc) in the case of a young boy's disappearance which seemed to be related with similar cases from the past. 

The Current War - An Interesting Enough Eye Opener of the 19th Century War of Electricity Current in America

Last Saturday, I was browsing through the list of movies on several cable TV channels and noticed there was this title that I never heard, which premiered for the first time. When I read the synopsis and the stars name that included Benedict Cumberbatch, it immediately intrigued me and I decided to give this a try. So what was the movie all about? Let's get on to it now.

Brief Story Line

Set in the 19th century, Thomas Alva Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch - Doctor Strange, The Grinch 2018 version etc), was a famous inventor with several inventions such as the light bulb, Phonograph and also the electricity using Direct Current (DC). He had a young and trusted assistant named Samuel Insull (Tom Holland - Onward, Spider-man in MCU etc) and a lovely family who fully supported him.

Dumplin' - A Quite Lovely Mother-Daughter Relationship Movie

Last Saturday night I was thinking of watching a movie on cable TV as it was usually the premier day of new movies. And it turned out that my decision was correct as there was 1 movie which was never shown in Indonesian theaters but I read somewhere that it was a good film. So I proceed watching it on Fox Movies Premium channel. Now I'll just get on with the movie.

Brief Story Line

A teenage plus-size girl named Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald - Birdbox etc) had been living with her aunt Lucy (Hilliary Begley) from very young age. But when Lucy passed away, Will had to move back and live with her mother Rosie (Jennifer Aniston - The Break-up, Friends TV series etc) who was a former beauty queen in their hometown Texas. Will who was also nicknamed Dumplin' by her mother, had a best friend since childhood named Ellen (Odeya Rush - The Hunter's Prayer etc) and they both went to the same school. 

Before I Fall - A Time Loop Movie from Teenager's Perspective

I was having the usual weekend staycation with my wife few days ago and on Saturday night there was a premiere of new movie on Fox Movies Premium channel which I happened to know from the comments of 1 of my reader in Happy Death Day. I was definitely intrigued to see this as it also had time loop element. So when I noticed that it would play at 8 PM, my wife decided that we should have our complimentary dinner at our room. Although she did not see the movie as she was concentrating on finishing season 1 of Riverdale TV series. Well let us find out more on the movie now.

Brief Story Line

A high school student Samantha (Zoey Deutch - Vampire Academy, Why Him? etc) was a popular girl and was best friends with Lindsay (Halston Sage - Paper Towns, Goosebumps etc), Elodie (Medalion Rahimi) and Ally (Cynthy Wu). It was Cupid's day (Valentine's day) where lots of girls in school were receiving flowers, including Samantha who got it from her boyfriend Rob (Youtuber Kian Lawley) and also from another boy named Kent (Logan Miller - Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse). Being part of popular and "mean girls", Samantha and the others were making fun of the less popular girls, especially when they picked up on an out of place girl named Juliet (Elena Kampouris - My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2). 

Before I Wake - An Unusual Supernatural Horror Drama Movie

It was another weekend staycation in Bandung that I was enjoying with my wife in the past 2 days (More on that on my wife's blog). And as usual, if I got the chance to enjoy a Saturday night movie premiere in one of the cable TV channels, I would definitely allocate my time to see it. Of course it could happen only when the hotel was providing such channels. Lucky for me that the hotel we stayed in was having Fox Movies Premium channel that showed a film that I had not seen before. Though it was a horror movie, but I still wanted to give it a try. Now how scary was the movie? I will go straight to it now.

Brief Story Line

Jessie (Kate Bosworth - 21, Superman Returns etc) and Mark (Thomas Jane - Deep Blue Sea, The Punisher, Standoff etc) were a couple who had just suffered a very traumatic incident with the loss of their very young boy Shawn. Jessie had to go to a psychiatric group to share her loss, while Mark was not really keen to it and preferred to mourn in his own way.

VISIONS - A surprisingly Little Bit Different Kind of Supernatural Horror Movie

As usual during another one of our weekend staycation with my wife (this time we were staying in a hotel outside Jakarta), I would not miss out on watching a movie that I never saw before in the hotel room. After browsing through the available channels on TV, I decided to watch this movie as it was part of the Saturday premiere of new movie. There was another movie which may have more quality playing in HBO (titled Steve Jobs), but as that channel was not available, I chose to watch the one playing in Fox Movies Premium. Apparently, to get ourselves ready for Halloween night on 31 October, the channel was playing horror movies every night at 8PM Indonesia time till that day. And so let's get on with the movie itself.

Brief Story Line

Eveleigh Maddox (Isla Fisher - Confessions of A Shopaholic, Now You See Me etc) was involved in a car accident where a baby died as a result. Despite her husband David (Anson Mount - Walk the Talk, Non-stop etc) trying to convince her that it was not her fault, Eve still felt guilty and having nervous breakdown & stress. A year later, Eve and David moved to another town and wanted to open a vineyard where they put all their money into this new place. Eve was now pregnant and seemed happy staying in the new place. 

Standoff - A Cat & Mouse Psychological Thriller

I watched this movie while I was spending the night in a hotel during the 1st weekend of August 2016, when my wife was given free 1 night stay at that hotel (as I kept on saying earlier to her, this was definitely 1 of the perks of being husband of a foodblogger LOL). Anyway, this movie was playing in 1 of the cable TV channel in the evening, so it was not the usual premier of a new movie. Since it was the only one that I have not watched before, I chose to spend the next 1.5 hour watching it. In fact, funny thing is I am writing this review in another hotel where we are staying this weekend. What lucky life! Thanks to @yennymakanmulu ...

Brief Story Line

The movie started with a scene where a young girl named Isabelle (Ella Ballentine) was visiting her parents' grave where she took some pictures of the surrounding. There was a lady who was attending funeral in the graveyard and suddenly, a hitman named Sade (Laurence Fishburne - The Matrix trilogy etc) came and started shooting on the lady and her bodyguard. Isabella (who preferred to be called Bird) was hiding in the shadow and took all the pictures while Sade was killing and trying to bury the corpses.

Roger, Bird's aunt's boyfriend came from the car where he was waiting to see why she was taking so long. Sade realized that the girl could be a witness, especially when he saw Bird holding camera. So he killed Roger and tried to capture Bird. Bird ran so fast while being chased by Sade to the nearest house which was occupied by a guy who seemed to be a drunk. The man who was living alone in that house opened the door and was shot in the leg by Sade.

He immediately closed the door and brought Bird inside. He took a shotgun and barricade themselves on the 2nd floor hiding behind a room nearby the stairs. This was the best place with good vantage point to shoot if Sade decided to go up the stairs. Sade realized that he did not have the best option at that moment to go upstairs and kill the man who later on would be revealed as Carter Green (Thomas Jane - Deep Blue Sea, The Punisher etc). It was unfortunate for Carter that his handphone was left downstairs and he had only 1 bullet left in his shotgun. So Sade would start psychological warfare against Carter by doing all he could from threatening, reasoning including trapping him.

Meanwhile, one of the sheriffs was circling around the area and noticed few cars seemed to be abandoned near the graveyard. He stopped by and started to look around and was thinking of going by Carter's house and see if there is anything happening, since it was the nearest house in the neighborhood.

So what would happen to Carter and Bird who were trapped on 2nd floor? Can the sheriff make it on time to help them? Or would Sade be able to fish Carter out, kill Bird and ultimately took the camera with proof of his killing? You can find all the answers by watching it till finished.

End of Brief Story Line

This movie was not so bad as a psychological thriller. As such, there would be not a lot of actions or special effects. The psychological war between Sade and Carter was quite entertaining to see. For a while you could feel the tense scenes where Sade used all his wits to fish Carter out till the very end. However there were not a lot of those scenes.

As the movie progressed, the relationship between Carter and Bird was quite touching as well. I think Ella Ballentine performance as young orphan child who found protection in the form of Carter, the military griefing man was also quite good.

I personally had a so so moment watching this movie. It did not leave me a lot of impression, but it did give me something nice to enjoy for 1.5 hours before I ultimately fell asleep after it was finished. So if you are looking for some time to kill and want to enjoy Laurence Fishburne & Thomas Jane doing a cat & mouse game and fight each other, then you can watch this movie while it is still playing in Fox Movies Premium.

Mike's movie moments rating: 3 out of 5 stars