Ben Affleck

Alice Braga

William Fichtner

J. D. Pardo

Hala Finley

Ionie Olivia Nieves

Dayo Okeniyi

Kelly Frye

Corina Calderon

Jeff Fahey

Sandy Avila

Jackie Earle Haley

Zane Holtz

Ruben Javier Caballero

Ryan Ryusaki

Nikki Dixon

Evan Vines

Bonnie Discepolo

Kelly Phelan

Patrick A. Grover

Dana Wing Lau

Georgia Foy

Jordan Hunter Jones

Justin Hall

Lawrence Varnado

Natalie D. Garcia

Carrick O'Quinn

Derek Russo

Steve Brudniak

Camila Téllez

Jose Barajas

Sonia Izzolena

Bobby Hernandez

Gabriel 'G-Rod' Rodriguez

Robert Rodriguez

John Debney

Mark Williams

Paul Alix

Caylah Eddleblute

Levi Kilgore Jr.

David Hack

Richard Hamilton

Pablo Berron

Nina Proctor

Walter Josten

Joel Sevilla

Caylee Cowan

Jenny Lin

Megan Gibson

Joshua Throne

Peter Touche

Lisa Ellzey

Travis Benavides

Garrett Fallin

Court Coursey

Ben Ormand

Trish Seeney

Lance Bradley

Nevada Newman

Crystal Bourbeau

Vincent Bruzzese

Christelle Conan

Rebecca West

Elinia Eads

Ethan Emmett Matheson

Alexandria Candelas

James Portolese

Maitreya Yasuda

Rebel Rodriguez

Angelo Palazzo

Christopher Milburn

Gareth West

Steve Joyner

Mark Gill

Cynthia Anne Slagter

Robin Simmerly

Ryan Basford

Jordan Wagner

Ethan Andrus

Granger Coats

Jay Mahavier

Raven Rodriguez

Dave Anglin

Nicholas Ortiz

Bret Stewart

A. Brooks Medoff

Shaun Mayor

Steve Urban

Edward Churchward

Hannah Handshy

Rick Owens

Derek Franzese

Evan Ho

Robyn Greer

Lesa Foust

Alan Allinger

Jason Hammond

Tim Rakoczy

Raul Mello

Aaron Atom Vyvial

Yvonne Wilburn

Kathy Kiatta

Clint Beckwith

Justin Moritt

Audrey Tommassini

Joe Vasquez

Obi Ariguzo

Sylvia Ramos

Beth Lloyd

John Sanacore

David V. Butler

Bob Trevino

Catherine Harper

Monika Petrillo

Ryan Green

Arthur Zajac

Ethan McDonald

Clark Crawford

Korey Pereira

Benjamin Verhulst

Christopher M. Campos

Reynaldo Diaz

Mary Vernieu

Josh Vinyard

Todd Smiley

Jeremy Fitzgerald

Zack Duhame

Mandy Kowalski

Skyler Millicano

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Leno

This movie is an attempt to create the new "Inception", and whether if you liked that movie or not is good indicative of if you will like this one.
The plot follows a detective who had his child kidnapped four years ago. He starts to work in a multi-bank roberry case and soon it gets clear the thief has hypnotic powers. Additionally, his missing daughter seems to have some relation to the case. Although the detective has some natural resistance to mind manipulation, the reality is wrapped between so many layers of illusions that it is hard to know what and who is real.
The writers do a good job in building the plot in a way it's very hard to predict the plot twists. The acting is good. I just felt the movie went too deep on the plot twists to a point that most that is shown throughout the movie has no importance. Good movie although, but I would be surprised if it becomes a movie that will forever be remembered.

Manuel São Bento

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"Hypnotic carries the narrative potential to become a mind-bending film packed with jaw-dropping twists and incredibly captivating storytelling. Unfortunately, despite some interesting moments and an excellent cast, Robert Rodriguez and Max Borenstein deliver a messily edited, extremely confusing mishmash of ideas not as clever as the filmmakers try to make them out to be. I don't remember the last movie that had such a brutal amount of lazy exposition to explain every plot point or character development moment. A complete disappointment."

Rating: C

Hypnotic failed to "mesmerise" this viewer. 

A disjointed story, weak characterisations and mediocre action, are my not so enduring impressions, of this film. 

In short, this is forgettable cinematic fare, that's predominantly driven by exposition and little else. Using a big name actor, like Ben Affleck, for me at least, wont fix this films shortcomings. 

Not sure too, why characters in the latter part of the film are dressed like car rental agents (oh well...)?

In summary, superficially watchable but instantly forgettable, action fare.

CinemaSerf

You know, for the first half hour of this, I thought it was just a remake of "The Mummy" (1999). "Danny" (Ben Affleck) and "Diana" (Alice Braga) are racing around trying to find his daughter who appears to have been kidnapped by "Dellrayne" (William Fichtner). The latter man is able to use his "Imhotep" mind-controlling powers to bend people to his will, and so can turn his friends and the mob into a baying crowd. Well what gradually unravels before us now is a rather lacklustre drama that explains that there are people amongst us known as "hypnotics". These beings, of varying strength, can manipulate those around them (with or without light-sabres) and it appears that his daughter could end up being their equivalent of a superhuman. Poor "Danny" has no idea whom he can trust or just quite what is going on, he just knows that he must ensure his child doesn't fall into their hands. This leads us, rather willingly for me by now, into the third phase of the story that really does kill any semblance of originality with our intrepid hero just one step ahead of a pursuing army of heavily armed holiday camp employees. The visual effects are adequate, but the rest of this is just derivate and the story tries to be too complicated for it's own good. It will do fine on the telly at Christmas but that's about it, I'm afraid.

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Written by Leno on Tue May 02 2023

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