Spiderhead
2022
**½
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Mark Paguio, Tess Haubrich, Angie Milliken, Stephen Tongun, Daniel Reader, Sam Delich, BeBe Bettencourt
The remote Spiderhead Penitentiary and Research Center houses a small number of inmates, who have volunteered to act as medical test subjects in order to reduce their sentence. Is the brilliant and ridiculously handsome head scientist Steve Abnesti a good guy or a bad guy? Like the recent Swan Song, this psychological thriller features an interesting science fiction concept, but the resulting film feels like an overstretched episode of Black Mirror. As the story builds momentum, some plot holes begin to appear. Based on a short story Escape from Spiderhead by George Saunders.
