There were several moments when I thought this movie was doing an excellent job creating tension, suspense, and creepiness, to build up to that eventual terrifying scare of a pay off. Like a scene where somebody is just staring at a mirror, and you know quite well that there's going to be a jump scare coming up, but it still gets you anyway. Another example would be a scene where somebody is looking through some social media posts of disturbing imagery that are able to just give you the creeps. I'll give this movie credit that it effectively gave me the creeps and the scares when it wanted to. What I won't give this movie credit on however is how it has some very stupid plot points that ruins any good will I have for it.
As good as it is at being able to create a creepy and scary tone in this movie, the whole experience gets ruined anyway by the amount of ridiculous things that the characters do in the story. What makes it worse is that there seems to be a slight awareness that the characters know they are suppose to do the logical and smart thing, but for whatever reason, they can't. The movie literally makes idiotic excuses as to why stupid things happen, just for the sake of moving the plot along. One of the lamest things that this movie creates that bugged the heck out of me, is almost everything involving social media. The whole premise revolves around the social media part of the story, and they can't get that element correctly.
It's unfortunate that "Friend Request" had many problems, because it really did have potential. I genuinely liked the horror-mystery angle of the plot, which reminded me of Gore Verbinski's "The Ring" remake, except it wasn't able to reach that same level of quality. I actually kinda wish that a potential sequel or a reboot would happen, so that it can fix the mistakes this movie had. Those mistakes and those unbelievable things about this movie, that made watching it a frustrating chore of an experience.
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