Awake not Woke!

Not at all what I was expecting. The first 40 minutes or so had a decent if improbable start but than it sort of stopped and went off into corny rom-com territory. Another true story movie that is basically all fake and made up. The basic character of Gary and his fake hit man is true but pretty much everything else is b.s. including the love story that is central to the entire movie as well as the 'surprise' ending. The acting is ok and there are some humorous scenes but I just didn't find it all that funny. It also seemed to be a bit long at 2hrs for the story it was telling. I finished it and it isn't terrible just could of been better. The only woke is the usual DEI overrepresentation and the love interest just had to be Spanish so we can get that mixed race box checked. I feel like this is another 2.5 star movie but I think it's decent enough to bump up to 3 stars.

1 of the skits has 2 annoying unlikabe feminist type characters call 8 year old boys misogynsts for no reason othwise nothing really woke. This franchise is an anthology series of found footage horror shorts. I've watched one of them before but can't remember which one. The acting is pretty bad in almost every segment, none of them are scary, it's just tons of screaming and gore. The FX range from mediocre to bad the stories are pretty boring and these suffer the same problems all found footage type movie do. I suppose if you enjoy the franchise or don't mind found footage it's sort of ok but frankly I was bored by the second segment and started skipping ahead to others to find any that were a little better. They all sort of feel like a bunch of film students with an iPhone shooting home movies with minimal budget.

The daughter is a lesbian, and the moment the shit hits the fan, her father becomes inept, hysterical, and stupid (dumb evil white man in a suit and tie), while the mother remains calm and rational. Typical feminist role reversal. The script is incredibly bad, the movie makes zero sense. The family's stuck in a bathroom, which looks like a flat actually, and they're peeing in front of each other, and there's no explanation why they're stuck in it rather than just being stuck in the house with all the rooms being accessible.

Nothing political here whatsoever, no preaching at all. Coz it's a Mexican film? Good premise, clumsy script botches it.