So, I saw Unfriended: Dark Web the other day and after reading reviews I found out that it was a sequel. Being that Dark Web was so terrible I figured the first one had to be at least decent since they made a sequel. HA!Isn't it the point of a scary movie that you don't want the main character(s) to be killed? Sure, there maybe one or two people who you couldn't care less about but for the most part you're supposed to be rooting for someone right?I could not wait until this merry band of faux friends was wiped out. OMG the yelling and bickering was so unbearable I just wanted them dead to kill the noise. This movie was found footage style like many scary movies before it except the footage was computer cameras from a group Skype chat. Every one of these friends was in some way responsible for cyber-bullying and causing Laura Barns to commit suicide. Now Laura is out to get revenge from the beyond.Between the long spans of watching a text thread and other typing and the yelling back and forth between "friends" I was annoyed. The movie cycled between monotonous and irritating with some gnarly deaths sprinkled in here and there. Making a feature length film with mostly a computer screen and talking heads is not a winning formula. This could've been an OK Black Mirror episode at best but not a movie.

Unfriended starts out with an interesting concept, yet by the end flops. The medium of the laptop is an interesting choice, yet seems a bit stilted at times, suffering from painfully long pauses. Indeed, when Blair speaks with her boyfriend through text, the background conversation is completely muted, which would be fine if the visuals were interesting during those moments, but often amount to nothing more than a text saying "Babe stop." The music that plays sparingly is a nice reprieve from the silence, yet is often too loud to comfortably hear the speakers (sometimes on purpose for plot reasons, othertimes just bad audio mixing). There are a few plot holes the writers don't particularly address (one of the character's deaths doesn't make a lot of sense upon analysis being the most noticable). The actors and actresses are decent for what they were given, with particular credit going to the actress of Blair. The writing ranges from boring and weirdly oblivious to painful quips ("Obvious troll is obvious," I'm looking at you here). All in all, it's not a film you should go out of your way to see. There are a few enjoyable moments, yet they are far too few to consider watching the film. This is a film you can rip on with friends, not something to watch at night alone when you're browsing Amazon Prime.

I would have gotten 600% more enjoyment out of watching and hour long compilation of pewdiepie just screaming, constantly, nothing else but him screaming

I didn't watch this movie with high expectations, and I'm glad I didn't. Nothing about this movie is really worth writing about, but here I am anyways. The acting was average, they were convincing as basic teenagers, but the biggest issue with this movie was the characters. Ignore the terribly cringe-inducing story line, the characters were so unlikable. I've never seen a movie that made me hate the main characters more. Part of what makes a good thriller is actually fearing the fate of the characters you love. The blonde girl, Jess, was so unlikable that part of me actually felt relieved when she died. It was the same with all of the characters, they were portrayed as basic rich white kids with no issues and a cliquey attitude. Every one of these characters made a girl kill herself, so why should I feel bad when they die too? They were all pretty annoying teens and it made the movie unbearable. I will give it some credit for the style of the movie, I like those screen-share movies/episodes of shows. (also what was with the computer taking forever to download a 999KB file, yet hardly lagging at all in a multi person Skype call? and playing songs without buffering? and loading pages instantly? when my computer is downloading stuff at 55kb/s it takes FOREVER to load everything else.)