Matias toggles between various windows and tabs, but is frequently interrupted by strange women, malicious computer dweebs, and pesky friends. The storyline and acting was much better and more effective than the first. The result is an unbelievable social critique built on the back of a Rube Goldberg-esque series of unbelievable, cruel plot twists that will make … I didn't know it existed until I was surfing through movies trying to find something to watch. [W]hat Unfriended: Dark Web does is just so ridiculous -- and ostensibly within our own reality -- that it unfolds like an overlong joke completely devoid of scares. I enjoyed Dark Web because it was a legitimately fascinating, enjoyable movie. Unfriended: Dark Web rises above the constraints of its browser tabs, and is able to weave a singular narrative that is both tense and frightening. Came across this film on Netflix and was presently surprised with the plotline and way the film played out. This movie although having a bit of a slow start, get INTENSE and doesn't let up throughout. Glitchings making them invisible are also too annoying and not scary at all. I'm sick of dumb people writing reviews. Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer, People’s Choice Awards 2020 Winners: Will Smith Wins Big As. I think the highly negative impact of the first will lead to people not even giving this one a chance. This is fantastic thriller with horror elements. There were many tense moments. The dark web isn't full of psychopaths or evil cults looking to kill indiscriminately, and this movie is nothing more than an overlong short horror film that could've been neatly wrapped up in 10 minutes or less, otherwise avoid and don't bother, the director, producers and writers obviously aren't. Considering that the original movie was a huge commercial success and made back 65 times it's budget I wasn't shocked to hear a sequel was being made, I didn't expect it to be so much better though. Dark Web however is much more effective and though I didn't find it scary like a horror movie, I do think it's a great thriller. Essentially, you can get just as much entertainment from reading a poorly written dark web creepypasta and save yourself the money since this movie is nothing more than a rehash of most of them. Just give this film a chance. It's pretty horrifying in its real world implications and it keeps you engrossed start to finish. In this film, our primary source of human contact is a group of cartoonishly naive Millennials. for some disturbing violence, language and sexual references. I'm leaning towards the latter since it's impossible to take seriously a movie where a sassy but defenseless deaf girl is repeatedly imperiled by a faceless internet-enabled killer who uses a goofy-sounding hacking tool to send all-caps chat room threats to his victims (a distorted chiming noise can be heard every time the evil hacker contacts Matias; it sounds like the hacker's cell phone is ringing while he's accidentally flushing it down the toilet). Honestly, it's hard to appreciate being chastised for willingly giving away so much personal information online—and for being so short-sighted about the "private" nature of our online interactions—when the film's protagonists are too dumb to fight back against big bad social media boogeymen who use Photoshop and word processing tools to entrap our heroes. and the Terms and Policies, One anonymous interlocutor has an unsettling request: he wants Matias to "trephine" a girl (another Wiki-explanation: "trephining" is when you drill a hole into a human skull). The main character we follow is Matias, a lad who has recently gained a new laptop. A very effective sequel that changes the course of the original entry, and still delivers scares under its technology dependent ambience. 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I found the acting was really good, I was not bored and genuinely hooked until the end, cared for the protagonists, loved the inclusive cast. So one of the problems with the first was that it was just plain old boring, the story simply wasn't interesting. Dark Web is a sequel that has too many of its lines crossed, adding nothing to the Hollywood hard drive. If these guys were using it instead of Skype, they'll never face such problems. The Dark Web in real life is not a place to visit, it's namely used for government communications and sites like the silk road are for secret illegal transactions like drugs and weapons. [Full review in Spanish]. While I didn't like it as much as other horror gems of the last few years, I didn't walk out of the theater like I expected I would. Unfriended: Dark Web follows a group of friends who are doing a Skype call that they seem to do a lot. External Reviews The story gets away from the supernatural, and the acting was much more solid across the board. But how is it better? His interactions are therefore mostly of the "What do you want me to do now" or "We can't do Y, or X will happen" variety.