Emergency Review

 

Emergency is a satirical thriller movie. It's produced by Temple Hill Productions and distributed by Amazon Studios. Emergency is written by KD Davila and directed by Carey Williams.

The story is two college students/friends named Sean and Kunle are planning to have the biggest party night of their lives. At first, they are accomplishing just that. With drinking, games, and being with attractive girls, but that soon takes an abrupt end when they soon find an unconscious girl in their apartment. Worrying that if they call the police they'll get the wrong idea, the two plan to take her back to her place, all while avoiding the girl's friends who are trying to find her, and anything else that'll make them look suspicious.

Initial Reaction

My main reason for seeing this was the premise sounded interesting enough, and I'm always willing to watch something that's an original idea, as supposed to a sequel, reboot, or etc.

Cons

One problem with the film and this is the biggest, comes from the writing. It's just not good. One of the issues with that comes from the decisions our characters make. For instance, instead of calling the police, they [Sean, Kunle, and their friend Carols] decided to take her to the hospital. Okay, that's actually a smart idea. But for no reason whatsoever they decided to drop her off at a campus. Which makes no sense, because they just had an argument earlier on, where they all agreed that that's a bad idea. Just because they changed the location, that still doesn't change the fact they all decided that was a bad idea. And a lot of stuff like that happens. Because of this, this not only makes it look like our main characters are their own worst enemies, because it's clear as day, the filmmakers keep doing this, because they had to fill out the runtime. My other issue comes from the tone. It started out as a pretty decent comedy, but then it switches to drama, then it's a thriller, then it's a drama with bits of comedy, then it's comedic, then at the end is being dramatic. Because of all of these constant changes in tone, viewers aren't gonna know what they're supposed to feel, and be confused on what type of movie this is supposed to be. Then we have the pacing. This movie clocks in at 1 hour and 45 minutes. Yet it felt longer than that. Almost like an extra 40 minutes was in there, somehow.

Middle Ground

I've got nothing. Let's move on.

Pros

Now despite not liking the overall movie, I'll will say the cast was great. Especially RJ Cyler, Donald Elise Watkins, and Sebastian Chacon. Those three together just did a fantastic. They brought some laughs, and their chemistry was great.

Much like the movie Kimi, I don't get why critics are praising this. The writing is bad, and that's clearly shown with our characters always making the worse decisions. The tone is all over the place, and the pacing was also really bad. But at least we had some good acting, especially from our three main stars.

My final rating is Bad.

That's going to do it for me. Come back on Thursday, Jun 2nd for my review of season two of The Boys. Until then enjoy the rest of your day.