I'm not finished playing yet (I See You 2019)

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I See You

7/10

I See You carries on my journey through movies that I have never seen and are available for streaming on Netflix. Helen Hunt is the only name I could recognise but I'd be forgiven for not noticing her face right away. Since I had seen her in movies such as Twister and What Women Want, she's definitely found someone to try and rearrange her face. IMDB describes the genre of this movie as horror so it would automatically have my attention but let's find out if this is worth seeing or if it should have remained in the shadows. 

I don't want to give too much away when it comes to discussing the full storyline as there are a lot of spoilers, which doesn't actually leave me with much to type on the subject but I'll try. The movie begins with a boy going missing but mainly revolves around a family home.

 A family is torn apart by an affair and as the husband is a detective working on the missing child case. A few things happen around the house which gives me a feeling of paranormal activity. Where the movie goes from here is an easier explanation but also some unexpected consequences. The movie actually restarts halfway through, to show the events from a different perspective. These leads us to characters that we didn't even realise were present. We find out about the strange happenings but we also find out about the child abductor and let's just say it was a little closer to home than first thought. The movie cleverly uses its narrative to show the audience aspects of the story that we actually missed and they either confirmed or ended some suspicions by the end credits. This is wrapped up with the audience possibly following one character and thinking he is a complete tosser but by the end, understanding his actions as they tie in with our main storyline. I won't be going any deeper with the story, but I can say that things did not pan out as I thought they were going to, that's for sure. 

I wouldn't go as far as saying this movie was in the horror genre in my book, more towards a crime thriller at best, although I was made to think differently about how events had started. A horror movie based around a police case for example would be Deliver Us From Evil, which drastically takes a turn towards the paranormal but this progressed away from those characteristics. 

Exploring the cast, I don't need to speak about Helen Hunt's character too much as it turns out the role she played wasn't too integral to the main storyline. That's not to say that it wasn't a good display but her character could have been played by a long list of talent and it would have been the same outcome in my eyes. Jon Tenny, who played the husband Greg, had a slightly more important role, without once again giving too much away. From a quiet man who seemed to be in mourning for his relationship, he switched through the movie to a darker, more sinister role. The other male that we would see a lot of was Owen Teague as Alec. This was the character mentioned that we got frustrated and quite frankly pissed off about but as this guy's character developed its final legs of the character arch, we knew exactly why the attitude he had through the earlier scenes, were apparent. There was no clear main character in the movie, just a collection and this collection gained a few members halfway through.

I have said this before and I'd imagine saying this many times to come... it's a movie that I enjoyed on my first viewing but I would very much doubt I would go back to it for a second viewing. This isn't a criticism for the movie or the story but once you know all of the twists, is there really the same enjoyment level available? You could watch this with a first-time viewer and see if they can guess the story or how they react but that might be about it. Sometimes I can be quite savvy when it's a movie that I'm told has quite a few twists and turns but on this occasion, my brain must have had a meltdown as I hit a few dead ends on m earlier ideas. It was a nice change of pace and refreshing that I hadn't spoilt the movie for myself, that's for sure.