Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.
Spree earns its highest marks for Novelty — the found-footage/screenlife conceit applied to ride-share culture and influencer obsession is a genuinely distinctive and timely satirical framework that feels singular. The film smartly skewers social media validation culture through its form as much as its content. Joe Keery delivers a committed, unsettling performance as Kurt, and the supporting cast holds up, landing the acting in solid above-average territory. The cinematography, while deliberately lo-fi and screen-mediated, uses its multi-camera dashboard aesthetic with enough intentionality to be above average within its genre constraints. The plot is serviceable but thin — it's more of a sustained mood piece and satire than a tightly constructed narrative, keeping it at average. The ending, however, deflates somewhat; it resolves in a way that feels rushed and slightly anticlimactic given the escalating energy of the film, failing to fully capitalize on the satirical bite it had been building.