Netflix built on a "horror movie" with deep social layers, but in practice we got something that is more reminiscent of conversations on a coaching podcast and clichés from Yair Lapid's early works.
A pair of iPhones have been cast in the lead role of the "Chaos Makers" in the new movie "Mr. Harrigan's Phone."
It's a shame that around them the whole business was full of broken plot lines and repeated disconnections at the level of logic.
But hey, the main thing is that there are quotes from literary classics and an upper class atmosphere.
paternal misanthrope.
Sutherland in "Mr. Harrigan's Phone", photo: Netflix
John Lee Hancock adapted one of Stephen King's stories into a film.
It's an overly slow coming-of-age suspense drama (which for some reason is classified as a "horror movie") about a relationship between a billionaire and a brooding boy in a town in pastoral Maine.
Donald Sutherland is Harrigan, an old man with a lot of money and worms in his coffers, who hires the services of a boy (Jaden Martel) to sit and read him the classics on the bookshelf.
The two form a close bond throughout the boy's teenage years despite the old man's misanthropic temperament.
It doesn't matter at the moment how and why, one day the boy buys him an iPhone and reveals to him the world of progress.
The same device later turns from a blessing to a curse that turns the phrase "these cell phones are a disaster" into an understatement.
"Cell phones are a disaster."
"Mr. Harrigan's Phone", photo: Netflix
In the end, this is a too little dramatic story that, probably because of King's portfolio, they insisted on calling it a "horror film", but it is not close to that, and it is not certain that this is not good news.
With the exception of a few dim moments at best, there is no storyline or scenes in the script that really justify entry into the suspense genre, certainly not horror.
But Sutherland is excellent as usual.
"Mr. Harrigan's Phone," Netflix
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