The Voyeurs (2021) Movie Review

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to my channel movie files elliott back again  
with a brand new movie review and today we’ll 
be discussing the film which by the way will  
be available to stream on amazon prime when 
this video drops and i’m talking about the new  
erotic thriller by the name of the voyeurs which i 
got a chance to check out early courtesy of amazon  
i’m really excited to let you all know if this 
erotic thriller is worth checking out this weekend  
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excited for it if you liked this cast but more  
importantly once you’ve seen this erotic thriller 
what do you think about it let’s talk about  
the highs the lows what did you think of the 
direction the cinematography the performances  
the twists the turns and more importantly what 
you think about that ending let’s talk about it  
all in

the comments below so i will say right up
top this movie will not be for everyone ladies
and gentlemen as i mentioned this is an erotic
thriller and for me personally i love thrillers
uh you know erotic thrillers falls within the
sub-genre of the thriller genre but i don’t
normally gravitate towards erotic thrillers not
just not because of the sexual nature of the film
i don’t get uncomfortable with sex scenes but it’s
more so i find erotic thrillers and i’m gonna put
some up on the screen right now for you all to see
for example but i i tend to find those movies to
be a little bit too dramatic for my taste to be a
little bit too over the top to be a little bit too
unrealistic in the situation at hand so i don’t
always watch this type of film the last one i
think i watched was uh netflix’s what was it 365
dni which was a very toxic film which is another
reason i don’t really dive into this genre they
tend to be toxic and have like the wrong messages
and they romanticize toxicity and listen who am
i to judge you know erotic novels and this erotic
thriller because i watch horror films i love
horror genres and i watch people get their heads
chopped off and bloods and guts and everything so
what does that say about me so who am i to judge
people that like this genre but nonetheless
here we are discussing this film when i saw
the trailer a couple months ago or about a month
and a half ago i was intrigued i’m like okay this
seems like an interesting story it seems like it’s
saying something about today’s society but also
i like the actors uh sydney sweetney i like her
justin smith i like him so here we are discussing
and starting off my positives and i want to touch
on those two actors starting off with the lead of
this film sydney sweden who i think personally the
stuff i’ve seen her on on television like euphoria
which i can’t wait for season two of that but
more recently the white lotus i think she plays
so great in her roles on television unfortunately
the movies i’ve seen her in hasn’t really worked
that great for me there was a movie that came out
on amazon it was a horror film that i just wasn’t
a fan of her acting but it was more so the script
but neither he know there i think for me this
is her best role on a film that i’ve seen thus
far i think her as i believe her name was peppa
she’s a newlywed uh woman married to jessica
smith who we’ll talk about here in a second but
it seems like everything’s going well in her life
she’s just married moving in with her husband for
the first time which by the way not to give too
much away in the film because i want you all to
kind of experience this if you decide to watch
this erotic thriller but essentially this married
couple moving in for the first time really nice
apartment they look across the street and their
neighbors have their windows wide open to see
right as their lives and what i mean by right
into their lives not what they’re watching on
netflix or what they’re eating for dinner but
what’s going on in the bedroom if you know if
you know what i mean and they get tied into
as jada smith would say this entanglement in
their relationship so i just kind of leave
it at that but seeing peppa again it seems like
everything’s going well in her life but she sees
this couple and she kind of gets entangled in
their relationship in regards to being obsessed
with what’s going on with them which i think her
character in the narrative that the film is trying
to say which i think they do an okay job at i’ll
get to my criticisms about the narrative of this
film but in regards to what pep is doing in this
film she’s spying on these people and she’s so
consumed with what they’re doing she’s forgetting
about her own life she’s forgetting about her
husband and stuff that you know what they’ve
built together because she’s so engrossed and so
and infatuated by their sexual life their
personal life and everything that they’ve
got going on so i really enjoyed her narrative and
kind of how she navigates to the film emotionally
and there’s a lot of emotions that this character
goes through for better or worse and i thought
again that sydney did a really good job of
bringing out that character in my opinion but
speaking of her co-star her co-lead justin
smith who very similar to her i like him on
television i liked him and the stuff i’ve seen
more recently generational hbo max as he plays
chester i think he’s a really cool character and
a really interesting character on that show but
translating to film i’m not the biggest justin
smith fan but i gotta say he did a pretty good
job in this movie now he’s not as heavily involved
in the narrative besides being the husband that’s
okay yeah honey this is interesting this is okay
this is a turn on for us i guess it’s something
new that we’re doing because again if you all
don’t know the definition of this film the voyage
uh the voyeurs essentially the definition of it is
people that watch other people have sex and they
get off on that switch i don’t know what would
you call me for someone that’s watching the movie
about people doing that me watching that what does
that make me but neither here nor there he’s like
yeah honey this is cool i guess but after a while
you see justin smith’s character thomas start to
be like is am i not enough is our relation not
enough are you like are you do you want to be with
them so seeing him kind of handle that and seeing
all his switching turns really interesting so
as far as our two main leads i thought they
gave solid performances i thought that the
the script kind of you know changed my thoughts on
some of the characteristics of our characters but
also i do want to point out ben hardy who plays
sebastian who’s the guy who’s in the relationship
with the women the per the people that they’re
spying on i thought he did a really good job i’ve
only seen ben in a couple movies i know his first
film was x-men apocalypse as angel uh which let’s
not even talk about that uh and that’s really
the only thing i’ve seen him in but i was pretty
impressed by his thrilling kind of menacing nature
mysterious nature of this photographer who’s doing
things outside of his marriage with other women
and and what his character goes through i was
pretty impressed by him so i thought for the most
part guys that the performances were pretty solid
i thought the cinematography was pretty solid in
this film i thought again the theme of what the
film was trying to say which i think they over
they threw their hand and kind of beat you over
the head with this message but the message of the
film is we get so consumed with everyone else’s
lives whether it’s on our phones scrolling through
tick tocks scrolling through instagram and we just
get so lost in their lives we forget to live our
own life so i kind of like how the film throws
that kind of social commentary within the film
and i thought that they for the most part handled
it pretty well but let’s get into my criticisms
guys this film as i mentioned when it comes to
this genre when it’s just like over the top and
just like this really wouldn’t happen in reality
there’s a lot of that going on now i will say the
first half and the third act are really when the
film has the most interesting elements to it the
setup was really interesting the first half of
this film to me was a legit really good thrilling
aspect of a thrilling film the second part of this
movie guys this is where the film kind of loses me
because we see our character and i won’t say who
one of our main characters does something against
the grain which i just don’t think mentally
again i mentioned that this genre plays into
toxicity and just kind of romanticizing certain
elements of like bad characteristics in people and
i just like i i can’t really roll with where this
film is going and then in the third act it kind
of you know flips itself on the head but that
second half of the film man really kind of was a
bit of a bore fest and also just really kind of
narratively speaking just didn’t make that much
sense to the characters that we had seen on film
and it just kind of went from zero to 100 like
really really quick and i just thought that the
way that they handled this switch and tone
switching the narrative just wasn’t executed
from my personal taste which brings me into again
this film um gives you a lot of twists and turns
and i think the one main twist and when you all
see the film you know what i’m talking about
i just didn’t buy it uh i just didn’t buy on and
again i know this is this is the trope this is
what plays in this genre i just just like to me
it’s just like what world are we living in that
this would go down that this would happen it
just it wasn’t believable for me in that sense
and once we kind of go throughout the film again
i thought that the performance was really strong
and i still think the performances are strong but
i think the script unfortunately plays against the
characters and it plays against what we’ve learned
from these characters in the first half the film
and it just really switches on the head just
to play into the tropes i don’t like when films
build characters and then they just throw them
into the stereotypical tropes with her come within
that genre which i thought really kind of was a
detriment to this film outside of those things
you know i have to say it’s very toxic i don’t
know if the message again i feel like this film’s
message was was saying something for the most part
again about living in other people’s lives and not
minding your own goddamn business uh neither here
nor there but i feel like the film just really
beats you over the head with that message
especially when you get the big big twist and
it’s just like really i i’m not an idiot i know
what you all are trying to say and just like the
film to me was just kind of like forcing down
your throat do you get what i’m saying do you
understand what i’m saying is it cool are we being
unique i just felt like the film just kind of
really played its hand into what it was trying to
say so there’s other things i can say negatively
about this film but i don’t want to give too much
away in regards to spoilers but again when you
all see this movie this is just a lot of moments
where i’ll give it props for i was entertained i
was like what the this is those type of movies
where you’re sitting down watching it with your
friend and your sniffing other you just like
no that ain’t she he ain’t that and they do it
it’s that type of film and sometimes it plays to
that but then sometimes like come on they’re not
it’s that type of movie ladies and gentlemen so
before i give you all my overall thoughts and my
score this film if you haven’t already make sure
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once you’ve seen the film and of course subscribe
to this channel if you haven’t already so overall
what i think about this movie i think that it
plays within this genre which is a good thing but
also a bad thing i do applaud the performances i
do applaud the narrative that it was trying to say
before it unfortunately played too much into
the message of the film and trying to beat the
audience over the head of what they were
trying to say in regards to social media
minding your business being in people’s other
business and all that stuff and then also to
just some of the twists some of the turns just
felt too unrealistic for my personal taste so
with all that being said knowing that this is
an erotic thriller knowing that it has certain
tropes and certain things that it has to kind
of play within to appease its normal audience
because i’m not the target audience i can
admit that i’m going to give this film a
2.8 out of 5 again on an erotic scale i didn’t
touch on the erotic nature of this film there’s
some pretty interesting hot and steamy sexual
scenes that don’t pan away from the camera you’re
seeing what’s going on so on an erotic level this
is probably you know one of the best erotic films
i’ve seen in a long time that nature but as far
as the narrative and the film goes like i said
2.8 out of 5 from me take that score for what
it is and let me know if you end up seeing this
movie and if you did what did you think about it
again the performances the direction the story
the message did you enjoy it did you not
enjoy it let’s talk about in the comments
ladies and gentlemen that is my review hope you
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