Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
After suffering a potentially career-ending brain trauma, Cameron Cade receives a lifeline when his hero, legendary eight-time Championship quarterback and cultural megastar Isaiah White, offers to train Cam at Isaiah's isolated compound that he shares with his celebrity influencer wife. But as Cam's training accelerates, Isaiah's charisma begins to curdle into something darker.
HIM blends sports drama with cult horror in a premise that has some genuine intrigue — the celebrity-athlete-as-messiah angle taps into timely anxieties about hero worship and influence culture. However, the plot struggles to sustain tension, with the cult mechanics feeling underdeveloped and the descent into darkness telegraphed too early. The acting holds the film together reasonably well, particularly in the central dynamic, but the characters remain thinly written. Cinematography is competent with some effective use of the isolated compound setting to build unease, though it rarely transcends genre convention. The satirical sports-meets-satanic-cult concept has novelty value and a distinctive hook, but the execution doesn't fully capitalize on its most interesting ideas. The ending is the film's weakest point, resolving its tensions in a manner that feels abrupt and unsatisfying given the buildup, failing to deliver a meaningful payoff to either its horror or thematic ambitions.