Cam

2018 webcam thriller

Rating: 9/20

Plot: A webcam exhibitionist has her account taken over by a doppelganger and gets all pissy about it.

This Netflix release was not made for grouchy old men. This particular old man doesn't even understand this webcam culture. Sure, I enjoy watching women spank themselves as much as the next guy, but. . .

I can't even finish that sentence.

This movie seems like it actually wants to say something about women and their bodies and technology and control, but it's more interested in creating a 21st Century mystery that is never adequately explained. Maybe a female director would have been able to articulate the message more clearly. This director/co-writer (he did write it with a woman, it should be noted) seems a little more interested in showing these webcam shows. We don't spend nearly as much time looking at screens here as we do in Searching, the other ultra-21st Century thriller from this year, but it does have a little too much screen time.

I'm not the audience for this. I'm a grouchy old man.