Simon (2016) Reviews

• Not Very Good. Don't Believe the Other Review

  arfdawg-12017-03-27

  The Plot. An investigative Journalist thinks she's found a killer, and breaks into his place to find the evidence. Only when he come's back it becomes a game of cat and mouse with deadly consequences. As of this writing there is only one other review -- from someone who worked on the movie and give it an extraordinarily good review. It's not a good movie. It's very cheaply made and not especially well done. I mean if you are in college and you made this movie, OK, but it's just not professional. Plus it's slow as molasses. And nothing about it is suspenseful. Move on.

• Not much of a 'thriller'

  tecneeqque2017-07-17

  The movie was all but urban, very low quality and clearly made on low budget. Everything seemed to just happen so quickly yet so slowly (get what I mean?). It had an unusually dull mood and was quite predictable at times. The 'horrific' moments seemed rather unconvincing and quite childish. Very simplistic. It doesn't get the viewer to fully understand and (perhaps) sympathize with the killer's actions. It wasn't all bad though. In fact, overall the ideas were pretty good. I especially saw the ending quite interesting but still felt like it was one of those endings in which the director of the movie feels he/she failed viewers throughout the movie and decides to make up for it in the end. It had a great environment and gave a feel of the regular neighborhood in England. However, ask me how I found this movie on a usual day, and the quickest answer I'd give you would probably come with the 'S' word.

• Gritty, effective urban thriller.

  gedpurvis-332-6597992016-11-09

  What we have here is a piece of British filming that excels purely by the edgy fast paced driven editing and great scripting, the overall picture has that edge of the seat feeling where you are led to believe that the predator will in fact get his prey no matter what and that's the beauty of SIMON as anything could happen as it is quite unpredictable. I am sick of everyday cliché riddled star studded Hollywood thrillers that only leave you empty. This film although obviously not a block buster it still carries a feeling of dread that some thrillers of its elk does not have. This film at least draws you in and is interesting enough to keep you till the end. Plus the acting of the main character was good enough to make you feel he is so unhinged even when he is acting normal. It's rural, gritty and made with passion and that's what I like about it. All thrillers like this work because of its shall we say close to home direction and that's how the very first Texas Chainsaw worked purely because of its rawness. I like this film very much and recommend it to those who appreciate urban filming.