American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].
表演可圈可点，但叙述上乏善可陈，编剧出身的导演过度重视台词而造成了其他视觉表达的缺失
对这个故事背景实在欠缺兴趣，虽然剧本仍是老味道，妮可女神也演得挺卖力的，观影过程却只感到好无聊，干干巴巴的节奏很影响观感，人物情感也不够立体，只有妮可在结尾的那段表演才感受到了那么点意思，目前看过最枯燥乏味的索金。
一个超级女杀手的模样，实际只是一个普通人，但也幸运地反杀成功，情节没看点，智能语音的聪明程度比车载语音还笨，女主是个黑人混血儿。
反杀之后开门接过花束那里的设计很妙，可惜电影整体水准受限。
个人风格强烈 形式大于内容 纪录/戏中戏、快速剪辑/闪回
艾伦索金的传记类型总是依靠着台词对白和演员表演让观感不会显得太过乏味，但也总是难以让人留下深刻印象；妮可基德曼的表演极有可能为她再度拿下一座影后小金人 ★★★☆
?我一度以为我在看什么谍战悬疑片??😅看得我不明所以
男人只在有资格问女人的ambition是什么的时候爱她
艾伦索金强大的叙事能力和效率需要建立在故事本身就很精彩的基础上才能发挥出来，然而这部电影完全没有这个先天优势，看完以后只想问一句sowhat。哈维尔巴登成为了唯一的亮点。
文化差异实在是有点大……本来以为这片的核心是女主如何向公众证明自己不是共产党员，结果其实是讲女主和丈夫之间的事……
后疫情时代电影，社恐感同身受，但社恐绝对干不掉两个杀手…
对不知道本事件的观众极不友好，上来人物背景都不介绍，直接大段台词，节奏极快，只能弃剧！
6/10 索金又回到了《茉莉牌局》的水平，不如拍个迷你剧吧。
home和house的区别从第一面贯穿到最后一幕
乱 复杂 细节太多 叙事线乱成一团 看的脑子乱嗡嗡的 如果不是妮可真的看不下去 先好好讲故事不行吗 很明显看出 同为传记片 gucci里的gaga跟这里的kd 还是有很大距离的
感觉妮可变年轻了 太喜欢她演这种有野心有态度的角色了 拿个影后吧plz
一般般，比较少见的反映智能电子产品正面的设定。虽然只有不到90分钟，主线简单支线却很散，部分运镜还可以。床戏裸露真的可有可无，只当福利。互相偷窥神TM换来个莫名其妙的见义勇为。还以为结局要和肥宅在一起呢，结果就是一个挡刀的路人甲。记住两个知识点：钉枪绷住当枪使，杀人能治社恐症。
3分。挺工整的真人改编电影，妮可·基德曼的表演挺出彩的，但是导演还是有点野心过大了，妄想在短短两个小时里塞下年轻时候的故事，戏外和戏里面的故事，看下来实在是有点割裂感，从周一到周五的流水账日记式剧情，也感受不到一个整体的连贯性，这种叙事方式实在不投巧。
Literally cliche that could be happening everywhere in the world with a totally opposite ending. Fighting back for freedom and democracy is a fantasy, just as the final scene of the film where nobody wears mask under the morning sunshine.
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