REVIEW: 'Hypnotic' drops Ben Affleck into a twisty thriller about a detective, a missing daughter, and psychics. Spoiler alert: It’s ridiculous.
) sits in a therapist’s office. His daughter was kidnapped at a playground — he’d been watching her, then suddenly,, she’s gone — and the story has been all over the news for months. The cop is dutifully attending his mandated psych-evaluation sessions. Rourke is finally cleared to go back to work, and he and his partner have been assigned to a stakeout. Two banks in Texas have been robbed; in both cases, the culprits have only taken a single safe-deposit box.
Then a curious thing happens: Rourke and his team see a man sit on a bench in front of the building they’re watching. The gent makes an idle comment to a woman next to him about it being hot out today. The next thing you know, she’s stripping her clothes off and walking into traffic. Rourke thinks this guy is the robber. He follows him into the bank, where several employees seem to be under his mental control. The cop gets to the deposit box first.
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: A man finds himself in a situation in which nothing is as it seems; he must rely on the aid of strangers to avoid the mysterious people who are pursuing him; and the world around him keeps warping into live-action M.C. Escher sketches. This is the plot, such as it is, ofand if you recognize that this description could easily apply to a dozen other movies off the top of your head, it’s probably not a coincidence.
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