This was kind of an ok movie throughout, but the last 20 minutes or so were just absolutely brutal. Our shero, Angela, is a reclusive germaphobe shut in who is dealing with the mental trauma of a past sexual assault and her job is to listen to faulty user interactions with Kimi - a smart home assistant like Siri or Alexa - and take corrective action to improve Kimi's responses.
Taking place during what I assume is shortly after peak-COVID lockdowns, we learn that during lockdowns Angela befriended a guy living in an apartment across the street and she invites him over occasionally for a booty call, but she can't muster enough gumption to meet him at a taco truck parked on the street between their 2 buildings.
There's also a guy across the street in a different apartment who seems to like watching Angela.
Oh, and apparently the apartment above hers is under construction/renovation because the noise from all the tools and hammering makes it impossible for her to do her job. It's cool though, she calls the foreman and reminds him of their agreement that they not work between the hours of 9am - 6pm M-F, 10am - 5pm on Saturdays, and NEVER on Sundays. This is definitely a very realistic scenario because contractors love working night.
Ok, so Angela is listening to recordings of faulty interactions and making simple corrections when she comes across a recording that sounds like a crime, but there's some loud music or feedback or some sort of interference that makes it difficult to hear exactly what is happening. So she downloads the audio file and using what I can only imagine is the free version of the worst audio app ever, she is unable to remove all of the background noise to focus in on the vocals. So she goes to her closet and breaks out a relic audio decoder from 1994 that she hooks up to her computer and is finally able to eliminate all the noise and she discovers that a woman was murdered. This is obviously a bad thing that happened.
So Angela does what any reasonable person would do and she alerted the authorities. SIKE! She emailed her boss, who then called her via video call and told Angela to never email him stuff like that again and suggested that she just clear the error and go about her life. He is apparently perfectly ok with their devices recording murder things and sweeping it under the rug and he just wants all of this to go away. So I'm just gonna assume this guy is an all around a-hole and terrible person. Also, his kids are out of effing control. So he's also a terrible parent. Shocker.
But Angela doesn't like his proposal so she has to practically beg him to give him the name of someone else in the company that he could report this to. And by beg, I mean that she simply asks and he gives her a name even though like 3 seconds ago he wanted to pretend like none of this even existed.
So Angela calls this lady at the corporate office like a dozen times in what I can only assume takes place over the course of maybe 2 or 3 hours. The secretary assures Angela that big corporate boss lady will call her back that day. And eventually big corporate boss lady does call her back and tells Angela to come to her office and they'll call the FBI.
So Angela puts on her big girl pants and ventures out into the world and meets boss lady at her office. Boss lady tries to pressure Angela into giving her the recordings and Angela insists they call the Feds. So boss lady excuses herself from the office for a few minutes. Then Angela notices that the secretary is gone and the only people who remain are 2 guys in black suits walking towards her. So she runs, but not very fast. The 2 guys run after her, but they do so at a safe following speed rather than full blown pursuit speed. They almost get her, but she's too quick for them because I don't think they were really trying.
Now Angela decides to go straight to the FBI office in Seattle, which according to her phone is like a 25 minute walk. Naturally she opts to do this instead of hailing a taxi or calling for an uber because who the bleep knows why?
She arrives outside a building and there's some sort of protest going on. Just as she's about to walk through the crowd, a black van pulls up and one of the guys who chased her before grabs her and pulls her inside the van. But this catches the attention of some protestors who spring into action doing what protestors do best....obstructing traffic. Luckily, the hitman in the driver's seat seems to have a moral code that prevents him from running people over, so he instead threatens them with the prospect of being run over by revving the engine a couple of times, but our intrepid mob doesn't budge. This gives Angela (who appears to be about 5'5/105lbs) enough time to overpower her assailant (who is like 6'/200lbs) and open the back door of the van where some protestors grab her and pull her to safety. She runs away and I have no idea what happened to the hitmen, the van, or the protestors. Side note: I'm not even sure what they were protesting for (or against), but I hope it was a successful venture that brought about positive change.
So now Angela arrives near another building, which I assume was the actual FBI office. She spies a shady looking character who she believes may be one of the men chasing her so she tries concealing herself among other pedestrians and a bus stop structure. Personally I think she would have been better off disguising herself like a trash can and moving a couple of feet at a time.
So the shady looking dude see her. I'm serious. He is looking right at her. And now he's walking towards her. Except he wasn't. He was actually looking at a woman who approached him from a significantly different angle. I assume he had 2 lazy eyes and that it only looked like he was looking directly at Angela but he was really looking like 30 degrees to her left. That was intense.
So now Angela is in the clear until some blonde lady calls out to her like they know each other. Angela stops and another passerby appears to jab her with something. Suddenly, Angela is looking a little woozy and collapses into the arms of the blonde woman and....surprise!....one of the hitmen. They throw her into the van and take her back to her apartment. The blonde lady is never seen again.
As the 2 hitmen are trying to carry Angela to her apartment, they are met at the building entrance by the previously unnamed stalker guy from across the street. He greet Angela and is promptly stabbed by one of the hitmen, but during this commotion Angela breaks free and gets into the building, runs to her apartment and is able to get in a slam the door shut just before one of the hitmen can get her. She's finally safe. Except she isn't.
There's a THIRD hitman already in her apartment and he has a gun. He opens the door and the other 2 hitman enter and they are dragging the stalker guy, who is still alive.
Angela and stalker guy are sitting on the couch and the hitmen are trying to determine if Angela has any more copies of the recordings. She eventually tells them they are on her laptop. As the hitmen go to retrieve the files, Angela asks how stalker guy knew her name and he basically admits that he had been searching her online.
While the hitmen are on Angela's laptop, Angela's mom calls via Facetime, which seems to sort of freak out the hitmen for a moment. Angela tells Kimi to answer the call on her laptop, and mom shows up and can see these hitmen dudes and she's like "WHAT THE F" and the hitman slams the laptop closed.
Then Angela tells Kimi to turn off all the lights and to play Sabotage by the Beastie Boys (RIP MCA) and she runs to the closet and climbs through an access panel in the ceiling that takes her to the upstairs apartment that is under construction. From here, she channels her inner-Bruce Willis from Die Hard and rigs a nail gun with duct tape so that it can be fired freely. She then comes back to her apartment and kills all of the hitmen with the nail gun.
Then she calls 911 and her booty call friend from across the street shows up with flowers because he wants to be more than just a booty call. The next day she meets him outside at the taco truck. The CEO of Kimi is arrested but we have no idea what happened to any of the other people who were complicit in the cover up and/or attempted murder of Angela (her supervisor, boss lady, the blonde woman). And what about stalker guy? Was he just allowed to go free and keep being all stalkery?
It was just a really bland movie with hitmen who were unintentionally comically incompetent and some of the most incomplete storytelling ever. The one positive was Zoe Kravitz. She played the role of a completely neurotic shut in very well, but that's the only bright spot from this otherwise terrible movie.
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