Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
Brandon Cronenberg's Possessor is a genuinely distinctive piece of body horror sci-fi that earns its novelty through a singular, deeply unsettling vision of identity dissolution and corporate violence. The cinematography is exceptional — hallucinatory, visceral imagery with striking practical effects and a deliberately disorienting visual language that feels wholly its own. The performances, particularly Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott, are remarkable given the literal challenge of portraying fragmented, contested identities. The plot is inventive in concept but occasionally thin in execution, more interested in mood and texture than narrative mechanics. The ending, while tonally consistent, lands with a somewhat cold and abrupt finality that feels intentional but underdelivers on emotional resolution, leaving the film's thematic payoff slightly muted.