It’s pacey, fun, and absurdly overconfident about its own premise.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2024

Instead, seek out Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s enigmatic, darkly funny, and disturbing Cure from 1997. A film which Hypnotic’s filmmakers wish it could be.

| Original Score: D | Jul 3, 2024

Do not expect too much from the film, and there's a chance you might just enjoy it. It’s silly and absurd.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 7, 2023

Rodriguez's spirit and good intentions seem to have been lost among medium budgets —but perhaps not quite generous enough— excessive seriousness, and convoluted plots in a sort of $65 million B-movie with Nolan-esque aspirations.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 21, 2023

A laughably bad, poorly acted movie. When nothing is real or as it seems, and you can’t trust anything you see happening, who cares? I certainly didn’t.

| Nov 20, 2023

Hypnotic is essentially a B-grade product disguised as a smart movie. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 17, 2023

Essentially “Lobster Stuffed with Tacos: The Movie.”

| Original Score: D+ | Nov 6, 2023

A narratively inert film that, despite having good performances, an appropriately intense soundtrack, and intriguing ideas, simply doesn't know what it wants. The only thing that “Hypnotic” manages to do is CONFUSE the viewer. Full review in Spanish.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2023

[Rodriguez] quickly reaches a dead end that leads him to have to explain each next step of the action with too many words. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 2, 2023

Hypnotic is another Robert Rodríguez movie with its feet firmly planted on the ground when it's time to shoot, but with its head in the stratosphere when conceiving the script, scenes, and dialogues. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 2, 2023

Rodríguez accumulates multiple situations, each one more absurd than the one before, which he intertwines with some action scenes resolved with much more skill than that applied to addressing poor Affleck's exploits. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 1, 2023

Let those of us who accept the real unreality of a Raymond Chandler Philip K. Dick, enjoy a Ben Affleck playing a metatemporal detective... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 27, 2023

The film articulates itself as a theory of mental power made from twists and turns that require a course final explanation. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 25, 2023

A poorly-written attempt at cerebral science fiction that collapses under the weight of its own stupidity.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 15, 2023

It doesn’t even lean into its absurdity, blowing an opportunity to pitch a tent in Campville and inspire a few hoots.

| Sep 8, 2023

You can only chip away at reality so far until everything in 'Hypnotic' starts to feel sketched and feckless. Any type of resolution reads as either disingenuous or completely unearned, as viewers were never invested in the journeys in the first place.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 2, 2023

At one point, [Diana] tells Rourke that “pain keeps the mind awake” — and, while the excruciating script doesn’t seem to have that effect on Affleck, it’s hard not to find yourself a little enlivened by Hypnotic’s sheer absurdity.

| Original Score: 53/100 | Jul 27, 2023

"Hypnotic" is just not a worthwhile endeavor for audiences as the actors almost seem to not believe in the material. There's a better film somewhere here, but it's not the one we've been given.

| Jul 25, 2023

There were some plot holes, but I still had a fun time with it.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jul 24, 2023

To many ideas that make everything an uninteresting story...

| Original Score: D+ | Jul 22, 2023