A detective investigates a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program.A detective investigates a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program.A detective investigates a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program.
Ruben Javier Caballero
- Watkins
- (as Ruben Caballero)
Ionie Olivia Nieves
- Minnie Rourke (7 yo)
- (as Ionie Nieves)
Bonnie Discepolo
- Business Woman #1
- (as Bonnie Kathleen Ryan)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe joke that the security guard tells his partner, about the man betting a bartender he can pee in a glass, is also featured in Robert Rodriguez' earlier film Desperado (1995) in which it was delivered by Quentin Tarantino.
- GoofsAll entries contain spoilers
- Quotes
Diana Cruz: I love you.. don't ask me why.
- Crazy creditsFinal ending is shown in a mid-credit scene.
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Creative but clunky
Robert Rodriguez is an immensely gifted cinematographer and has quite a vivid imagination, and both of these great qualities are abundant in Hypnotic. It has a wonderfully clever concept that keeps the film watchable and subversive twists that keep the experience unique.
Sadly, what keeps this movie from being powerful and memorable is it's excessive reliance on exposition. So much of it is necessary to explain the overly complex plot and possibly over half of the dialogue is clumsily-written rapid-fire exposition. It just isn't fun.
And the script keeps us from forming any sort of emotional connection with this story because it's so concerned with explaining WHAT is happening that it forgets to let us in on the intimacies of WHY it's all happening-who these people are, really, and why we should care.
I find this to be a very frustrating film, because it had so much more potential than was tapped into by this extremely rough screenplay.
Sadly, what keeps this movie from being powerful and memorable is it's excessive reliance on exposition. So much of it is necessary to explain the overly complex plot and possibly over half of the dialogue is clumsily-written rapid-fire exposition. It just isn't fun.
And the script keeps us from forming any sort of emotional connection with this story because it's so concerned with explaining WHAT is happening that it forgets to let us in on the intimacies of WHY it's all happening-who these people are, really, and why we should care.
I find this to be a very frustrating film, because it had so much more potential than was tapped into by this extremely rough screenplay.
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- benjaminskylerhill
- May 11, 2023
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Những Kẻ Thao Túng
- Filming locations
- Austin, Texas, USA(Downtown)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $70,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,500,169
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,401,686
- May 14, 2023
- Gross worldwide
- $16,281,937
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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