Hack – Stephen Cooper

2/5 stars

Hack wasn’t nearly as extreme as I was expecting it to be. I had geared myself up for the mass amounts of gore that this was sure to have, but it was more dialogue and teen humiliation than anything.

The characters spent an awful lot of time talking about what they were going to do and then proceeding to do maybe half of what they were saying. If you’re going to bill me an extreme home invasion, then I want the full brutal treatment.  The reactions to some of the things that happened also felt over-dramatized; the mass amounts of blood alone didn’t seem to match with the severity of some of the injuries.

The ending was a decent full circle moment but felt extremely predictable. It also left me some questions about what exactly happened in the time skip between the story and the epilogue. I feel like I got cheated from some really good plot by not getting to see any of that, only being told snippets to make the ending make sense.

This was alright, though it read more like a psychological than an extreme for me. Maybe I’ve just gotten desensitized to these kinds of things, but my expectations were far higher for this.