The Thinning (2016)

A Masterpiece!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This movie has no reason to exist. It's one of the worst things I've ever seen and only partly due to the casting of Logan Paul as the protagonist. I'm no fan of Mr. Paul and his Youtube shenanigans but I know he's popular with the young crowd. Problem is, he's not a good actor. In fact everybody seems to be sleepwalking through their roles in this but that's only part of the problem. The rest of it is they took an interesting concept for a dystopian future and turned it into an unbelievable and frankly boring piece of crap.Nothing makes sense in this movie. Absolutely nothing. Things happen because they're supposed to happen in the script but there's no lead up or reason for them. The story itself contradicts it's own narrative. This seems to have been directed and edited by somebody with ADHD because honestly it was cut so badly I didn't know what I was looking at half the time. Of course it's a "Youtube Red original movie" that might explain it. Hey, it works on Youtube in a two minute video, it's going to work for a full length one right? Wrong. Some real actors in the lead and a better script and director and maybe they could have made something that people would want to watch instead of just a product to be consumed.

The flaws are typical of movies that have young main characters accomplishing impossible things. But overall, it's a good movie. I believe the people giving it ridiculously low scores saw the possibly intentional similarities between the politician and Trump, hence the false accusations against Democrats, to deflect from the fact that someone like Trump just might be for an education system like this. Some might also be Chinese trolls who can relate to the stress of their final high school exam by which the students' university choiices, thus future is determined by their score. Others giving it low scores might've been disappointed there weren't f-bombs throughout, and that there was only a scene that suggested nudity without showing any, and another where a couple only strip down to their "modest" (no thong or cheeky) underwear, And, the other group are haters of the lead male character. But the character he plays needed to be his size, and the good-guy jock type. If you don't fit any of the 3 groups I mentioned, you just might enjoy it. My wife and I both enjoyed it, and I recommended to my friends on Facebook.

I swear this is the worst movie I have ever EVER seen!I thought the story sounded good, but the writers made this into an unbelievable boring cheap looking dated piece of trash!Nothing makes sense. The story does not fit into the events.It is so unbelievable and I found myself hating it all the way through the 30 minutes I endured! ...after that I switched off.The actors were awful and the director must of been some hyper video blogger who became famous through YouTube.Just because it was produced by 'YouTube Red original movies' I think this poorly made movie got more credit than it deserves. I reckon most of the extras and cast were probably top video bloggers from YouTube, instead of real actors who have a soul.This movie was soulless - you might like it, if you are some dumb teenager though.

I'm shocked still at how great of a movie this was. There are flaws in the movie but I ignored them because of how much action was in the movie and the suspense kept me on the edge of my chair. The characters are very diverse and are all different. This movie has one of the best cast I've seen in years. the crazy part is the Thinning is low budget. The thinning should made it to the Theaters because of how amazing it was. Through out the movie I couldn't tell that it was low budget they did a great job through out the of making it look great. Well The plot and the writing are truly Spectacular. There are flaws in the movie but the greatness of the cast and writing is easy to look past.Give it a chance the movie might surprise you.