00:00Imagine you are a kid, you just landed your first real acting job, you walking into a house,
00:06cameras are hidden everywhere, and in a few minutes a grown man is going to walk through that
00:13door hoping to do something horribly to you. Except it's not real, it's a shit,
00:19but somewhere in this story, someone forget where the acting stopped it and something much darker
00:26began. Hey everyone, welcome back to the channel. Today we are talking about Prime Time from A24
00:34directed by Lance Oppenheim, starring Robert Pattinson, and honestly this might be one of the
00:41most uncomfortable, most brilliant movies I have seen all year. In this video I am going to break
00:48down three big things. This movie is really about tell you what didn't fully work for me,
00:54and give you my honest verdict at the end, so stick around. Quick setup, Pattinson plays a character
01:02based on Chris Hansen, the man who hosted To Catch a Predator back in the 2000s. His producer played
01:10by Merit Weber is obsessed with keeping the show number one, no matter what, and one young actor
01:19played by Skylar Jisundu gets pulled in as a decoy just trying to land his first big break.
01:27That's the setup, now let's get into this movie is actually saying.
01:32Theme one, is this justice, or is this just a show? Early on the network tells them they are getting
01:40a
01:40better time slot, but there's a catch, the stories needs to be juicier, every case has to be bigger
01:48than the last one. And slowly, this stop being about protecting kids, it becomes about finding the
01:56next big catch. I genuinely felt stick watching that shift happen on screen, because you realize
02:03nobody in that room is thinking about safety anymore, they're thinking about ratings. Theme two,
02:11the man behind the marks. Before every sting, Pattinson's character stands in front of a mirror
02:19and repeats his lines to himself, almost like he's putting on armor. And his performance completely
02:26unsettled me. Not just the voice, the way he breathes, the way he calculates every word before he says it.
02:36There's a moment where someone confronts him and basically asks, who do you think you are? And for
02:44once again you see real fear on his face, just once again. Then it's gone and he's back to performing.
02:52Theme three, the people we forget about. This is the part that hit me hardest.
02:59Zisundu's character is on some hardened agent. He's just a kid trying to start his acting career.
03:06And he ends up face to face with real predators. Over and over again. Later in the film,
03:14in a small town called Murphy, Texas, things go horribly wrong. And you can see on his face that
03:22he knows this isn't just acting anymore. I actually paused the video after that scene. It really
03:29sat with me. Now war didn't fully land for me. Do not get me wrong. This is still one of
03:37the best
03:37films I have seen this year. But around the truth arc mark, the patching gets a little messy. The story
03:45loses some of its grip for a stretch. It's a small stumble thought because visually this might be
03:52the best looking of the year. Honestly, the camera work alone makes up for it. So here's my verdict.
04:01Should you watch Prime Time? Yes. A hundred percent yes. But go in knowing this isn't a fun, popcorn kind
04:09of movie. It's heavy, it's uncomfortable, and it's going to make you question why we were ever
04:17entertained by something like this in the first place. Now I want to hear from you. Did you watching
04:25the real catch a predator going up? And be honest, do you think shows like that were really about justice
04:33or were we all just watching for the entertainment? Let me know in the comments below. And if you enjoyed
04:41this review, hit like, subscribe and I will watching you in the next one. Bye-bye.
