Something about the trailers rubbed me the wrong way... but this is getting astounding hype so I had to check it out.

Let me start by saying there's obviously much skill on display here. There are some very well crafted scenes and the movie as a whole is very well shot.

But overall Talk to Me didn't quite win me over. The characters are very dumb and I wasn't sold on getting possessed as a fun party trick - especially how the pushback was essentially non-existent. Seemed like no one had any knowledge of the opening scene?

The movie does avoid a boring middle where the characters back trace and try to find the origins of the object. But since we know nothing about the hand, I felt like I had to accept way too many premises and the rules became a bit muddy. Especially with that ending. That's a bit of a silly ending, isn't it?