Blank (2022)

Decent British AI Scifi Thriller about an Author Supposedly with Writer's Block - Blank review by PV

I really liked this film. The (white male) writer has written one other scifi WHAT IF... movie, reminiscent of many dystopian scifi films tb.

One can see HAL in 2001 here or AI as a robot takes over, and even THE SHINING at one point.

Because I really get the writing process, good and bad, the struggle, the stress, the frustration, I could relate a lot to the main character so maybe I warmed to it more than others would - though yet again this is an all-female film, with the only man black, and even a short TV clip is an Asian man and 2 women. WHY? This is not even state-funded. It is bare racism/sexism to deliberately shun white male actors or characters surely?

Anyway, the first half hour us superb. It sags a bit then, due to the backstory of the author's supposedly early life. That was weak I thought. And why does the young girls have a posh public school accent and her mum a working class/lower middle class one. it does not make sense. All a bit overwritten and overdone.

this would make a decent theatre play to be honest as it all takes place in one space with few characters.

I liked the twist at the end. Reminded me of YOU WILL MET A TALL DARK STRANGER just about my favourite Woody Allen film.

4 stars - just. 3.5 stars rounded up.