It's What's Inside

It's What's Inside is one of the funniest, most clever, and narratively ambitious movies I've seen in a long while.

There are few things better than when a good idea blossoms into a great movie. It’s What’s Inside, written and directed by Greg Jardin, achieves this rare feat.

As ambitious or complicated as the script may get, the film is the ultimate crowd-pleaser, entertaining the idea of horror tropes but structuring the story with clever twists and thrills that defy the genre.

The camera, the cuts, the needle drops, and story twists all contribute to the feeling of a machine that’s spinning faster and faster until finally it careens right out of control.

The body-swap movie “It’s What’s Inside” dazzles up to the moment its plot gets going.

There’s a cracking elevator pitch of an idea here (one wonders if inevitable sequels will be able to squeeze more juice from it) but Jardin’s cocky, in-your-face excess coupled with his lack of follow-through makes this an unwinnable game.

This tale of self-involved millennials, a mystery machine, and a whole mess of purposefully mistaken identities is the kind of mashup of high-concept horror and ham-fisted satire that mistakes complicated for complex and a pile-up of confusing plot twists for storytelling.

Mind-blowing candy pop with zesty and profound themes, kinetic and krazy kudos for the excellent music, editing, acting, and direction. It's always great to see a movie that upends your expectations.

Im really conflicted over this film. On one handi really enjoyed the first half. Its a very unique and funny ride. Not unlike Talk to Me, which i liked. Acting is superb across the board in nearly every scene. But as the story progresses it becomes quite repetative. It becomes a "boyfriend bad" thing, basically enumerating the shortcomings of men. Particularly one in particular. Then you get a superfluous final scene that literally states something thats been hammered in throughout the film. Instead of a jubilant moment of catharsis, it merely falls flat with condescension. But on the whole there are some strong comedic moments, plus some great performances overlayed on a unique concept.

A group of narcissists get together with a magic machine that lets you swap bodies. Of course stuff starts going poorly when you have a couple psychopaths mixed into the group. The ending is obvious from round one so don't expect any big reveals, but there are enough twists and turns throughout to make it enjoyable.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

It felt like a (way too) long and tedious episode of Black Mirror. It would have worked perfectly as a 50-minute episode, but as a feature film, there’s about 50 minutes too many. The story only really starts after the first hour, and everything before that is pointless and painfully boring. The direction is a disaster. The director tried to give it a ‘New Wave’ style by using a 1.66 aspect ratio — a format used only in Europe and only in the 1960s, and abandoned for a reason. The ending is nothing original either; it’s the same old body-swap trope we’ve seen a thousand times. Just barely passable as a film.