Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
A night of drunken chaos rocks a quiet Dutch town in this shocking documentary about a teen's birthday invite that accidentally went viral on Facebook.
This documentary about the 2012 Haren Facebook party disaster that spiraled into a riot captures a genuinely wild real-life event. The storytelling is serviceable but uneven, relying heavily on shaky amateur footage and talking-head interviews. The cinematography is necessarily limited given its documentary nature and reliance on found footage. The novelty is moderate — viral-gone-wrong stories have become a familiar genre, though the scale of this Dutch incident gives it some distinction. The ending feels anticlimactic, failing to draw deeper conclusions about social media mob dynamics beyond the surface spectacle.