Pet

Once past a first reel which deliberately sticks to torture porn conventions, Pet is redeemed by a series of developments that take the film into surprising story and character areas.

The film is engrossing, thanks to the director’s skill at delivering sustained tension, and the excellent performances.

Pet isn’t much more than a twist on an old conceit, and the character beats are painted with overly broad strokes, but it’s sharply shot with a crystalline sense of unease, and Monaghan and Solo lean into their creepy performances wholeheartedly.

As hard as Pet tries to be something different, it still feels like a film about a woman in a dog cage.

Pet is scariest when exploiting our social fears of being rejected, and at its worst when playing some psychological switcheroo in a Saw-like basement.

The screenplay quickly loses this moral clarity as the plot twists pile up and the power balances shift.

In a movie year in which I’ve had to see both “Clown” and “Trash Fire,” the bar for worst of year is pretty low. I suppose that Pet, for me at least, completes a trifecta of sorts.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Really enjoyed this movie. Interesting, completely unexpected twists and all that. And I have seen so many movies with twists that it is hard to surprise me, but this movie did just that. Didn't like the ending a bit though and some parts towards the end of the movie were just a bit too much unreallistic and made it not as good, but otherwise great movie.

This movie tries so hard to play with it's plot twist that it becomes difficult to identify if it helped the overall plot or sank it. Personally, the parts where the psychological aspects regarding the antisocial behavior, lonely life of the "villain" and how far he would go to have some type of company are showed are the best, and could have been worked on more.

The secret life of being somebody's Pet! The last time I saw Dominic Monaghan was pretty impressive in 'The Millionaire Tour'. This film was not bad. But it kind of reminds other titles like 'Tusk', 'Eyes of my Mother' et cetera. Only thematically. The screenplay should have been improved by extending more dramatic events. At present, it was simple, though the twists were the saviours. Not the mind blowing twists, but for a small storyline like this, everything justified. I liked how film characters switched nature of their roles while story progressing. That was nicely designed characters for a thriller which added a bit of mystery flavour. The character Seth was really interesting one. Drawing a story out of him lacked depth in the later parts. Especially after the first twist revealed. The second half was unexpected, but also that's where the narration stared to fall off the track. One of the reasons was predictable. Though enjoyable film, until the finale. I thought it was overall a better film than I expected, but the end was not any good. Too cliché. You can easily spot they are interested in a sequel, so they kept it open. But closed conclusion would have made it a decent film. 5/10

This movie is terrible. The narrative it tells is contrived and deliberately demonic with no cultural value. You would benefit more from reading the back of a cereal box than watching this demented movie try to carve out relevance from an utterly ridiculous plot and mission.