Latency

Latency manages to succeed in creating a daunting thriller, which is not only enjoyable but unpredictable. If you’re looking for something intense but not too scary, Latency is the ideal watch.

Latency takes a potentially solid idea for a thriller (a virtual reality gamer begins to lose her sanity) and makes it an incoherent, boring mess. It's hard to take this psychological movie seriously when it's so stupid. The acting is also horrendous.

While the style and tone evoke real vision, the film arrives as lifeless and cold.

The film is decent, but it’s missing something, it straddles the line between good and bland and the uncut or R-rated cut may very well fix this, but who knows if we’ll ever see it.

Latency, if not entirely original in style or flawless in its crowd-pleasing, is an imaginative, trippy, and modest indie that resists aesthetic overindulgence or perplexing rhetorical angles.

Writer/director James Croke gets big points for making Latency feel like it has everything it needs despite a very small cast and limited settings.

Latency is largely unsuccessful in its attempt at a sci-fi, horror, and techno-thriller mashup. A promising start loses the plot when the lines between psychosis and reality become blurred.

Latency tries to match the mind-bending thrills of the best Black Mirror episodes, but despite a game Sasha Luss and slick direction, it falters.

Latency has a promising premise as it merges new technology with a gamer with unpacked trauma. But it loses itself in obscurity. However, that's not to detract from its entertaining aspect.

Latency, while featuring a few notable visual flourishes and a solid performance by Luss, never goes far enough to advance to the next level.