I swear I wanted to use "talk to the hand" as a headline, but it was taken, so...never mind 😊. Anyway...The Buzz about this feature was really intense and the fact it came from A24 only raised the bar a little bit higher.

It starts well and seems that the Philippou brothers has found a formula which lead them to a flawless road and after this vague, but intriguing and engaging, introduction we move on to the guessing game of the plot and the main message, which the movie aims to.

It talks about a TikTok challenge which involves a mysterious hand, that makes the people holding it get into a weird and trance state of mind. Whether it is true or not and whether it is an imagination of some of the characters of not - not very important to the effectivity of the movie.

It holds great. It sometimes chokes the audience like it does to some of its main characters, but it is mainly well written and performed - visually and thematically. But somewhere, near its final section and wrapping scenes it gets lost with his idea and main issues.

We see the main character deal with death of loved one and get their condolences and support from friends, but not from their dearest. We see the way the movie deals with its parental figures and issues and off course we get a great scene which relates the ceremony of using the hand and the use of drugs and how much drug using is bad.

Like this review, the movie is full with great things but cannot decide what it wants to say in the end of it. It is performed great by a fantastic crew of actors and two brilliant directors, but it probably could have been much better and even legendary.