Film Review – Smiley

SMILEY Caitlin Gerard

With the release of “Smiley,” the horror genre has reached a new low. Or
perhaps a total exhaustion of malevolent possibilities is a more
accurate summary of the monumental nonsense that’s intended to pass for a
story, which two screenwriters have bravely taken full credit for. A
ludicrous condemnation of hacktivism layered with worn out slasher
clichés, “Smiley” is witless, charmless motion picture that imagines
itself an ideal vessel for co-writer/director Michael J. Gallagher to
purge his rudimentary ideas on the fragile state of online ethics,
hoping to offer younger audiences a lesson on reckless behavior while
mounting one of the most inept movies of 2012. The only thing truly
scary about this terror film is that somebody paid to have it produced. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com

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