Review of Smile (2022) by Viroodiem — 07 Nov 2022

To start, Smile is OK.

I personally judge the quality of a show or movie by how many times I stop while watching it. I started watching early in the morning (my schedule is constantly changing) on Saturday and it took till early in the morning on Monday to finally get through it all. With at least a dozen stops along the way. Yes its my own ADD but ADD has been a pretty solid gauge for entertainment quality.

Now that said, there is still something here smiling back. Something that keeps drawing you back in even as it lulls. Maybe its my personal connection to being trained in psychology. But regardless I never stopped wanting to finish it(outside of "birthday gift") Its not the best movie you have ever seen. Its pretty much bog standard for suspense driven horror. Like The Ring before it. It checks all the major boxes. So if you dont put a lot of thought into it there is a decent time to be had here. The fact I finished it is high praise given how run of the mill it otherwise is. Yet, we have all sat through so much worse.

5.25 seems the most accurate rating for it. Ever so slightly above average, and yet still pretty much watchable.