Talk To Me is a horror movie that builds itself up on a great premise but falls a bit flat on its finale. Recommendable, but could have been better. Understand why reading along.

In Talk To Me, a seemingly unharmful game has serious consequences, borrowing a lot on the concept of Ouija boards. One creepy hand opens the door to talk to the dead, and a group of youngsters from the current generation is mocking the outcomes that this powerful artifact might bring, talking to the dead like some twisted game. The fun part is that I could definitely see this happening in modern times - how many times haven't we seen some sad news about some kid that got hurt or worse due to some dumb challenge?

The opening seen and the setup are great. Creepy and intense, great acting by Sophie Wilde, which interprets character Mia, a girl trying to go over her mother's death. You get your fair share of what you'll get on this movie; or is it? The major problem of Talk To Me is that it builds expectations to the highest but the movie decreases in tone as it progresses, slowly fading into light horror territory. When we get to Act 2, we are stuck with a good story that lacks what Act 1 had: good horror. The middle-point scene is great, kudos to actor Jor Bird, but it's not the real middle plot point.

The plot point at the middle that sets the ticking clock happens a bit late, but it's a good one, creepy in its own way. However, by this point, you start to wander if you get some answers - for questions that I can only go in depth later, on the spoiler part of this review. Bottom line, you kinda don't.

Stakes are high at this point, and you want a good finale to wrap things up. And, although the ending scene is interesting to the point that opens up the path to possible sequels, too many things are left open with the main plotline, which feels unsatisfactory.

Talk To Me is recommendable to horror fans, even with these flaws. Hopefully, one possible sequel might close some of the loose knots.

*** From this point on, spoilers! Spoilers! Be advised...

Talk To Me builds itself around Mia, mourning her mother's recent death, to which the movie tries to build suspense, but it's fair straight that her mother committed suicide. But I feel sad that, because of constraints on movies, writers couldn't build other characters from what I will call moving forward the Hand Group. The Hand Group has some interesting characters that could contribute to the story in good IT vibes, but, in the end, we focus only on Mia and her arc, a negative arc that leaves a sour taste on our mouth; the lack of some other main character with a positive arc is dissatisfactory.

So, breaking into Act 2 reveals that Riley, for unexplained reasons, has caught the attention of the spirits, some mean ones that want to tear him apart. When they get their hands on Riley due to Mia's selfish act to try to connect to her mother, stakes ramp up good, but we start wondering: what's with wanting Riley so bad. No explanations.

Another problem is that Mia is the only one seeing spirits. In the story, they try to explain this fact with a dialog where Mia suggests that she was the only one that touched the hand along with Riley - the movie even tries to corroborate this fact -, but it feels weird.

No back info on the hand might be a trick to suggest a follow-up movie. Okay, but, if not, then there is this huge flaw too.

To wrap up, the ending. So, Mia and Riley has this encounter with a dying hit-and-runned-down kangaroo on the road. Mia opts to let the agonizing kangaroo die out of his misery; "huge mistake!?" Well... At the end, this fact hunts Mia to the point where she realizes that she must kill Riley by throwing him at some speeding car - so dumb. Then, she actually commits suicide and that apparently saves Riley!? Why? How? We get nothing. This is a huge turndown to what could have been a great horror movie.