Main cast: Julia Sarah Stone (Sarah Dunne), Landon Liboiron (Jeremy), Carlee Ryski (Anita), and Christopher Heatherington (Dr Meyer)
Director: Anthony Scott Burns
Sarah Dunne is a teenager that has run away from her mother. She also has severe sleep issues, as she has difficulties in both falling and staying asleep, what with her plagued by nightmares and all. When she comes upon a sleep study conducted by a team of university researchers, she figures that she has nothing to lose by signing up to be a test subject. She gets a bed, at the very least, so it’s not a bad deal. Well, that is, until she soon finds herself in what seems like an overlong nightmare, tormented by shadowy jump scares, I mean, figures and all. Oh dear, what has she gotten herself into?
Come True is, at its very heart, a mystery box movie. It is designed to throw twists and turns at the viewer, culminating with a revelation that is meant to make the viewer go, “Woah! That’s so smart! I feel so much smarter just from having watched this movie!” Just like many movies of this sort, unfortunately, once the revelation is dropped into the movie, there is nothing left to savor should this revelation be unsatisfactory to the viewer.
The grand revelation of this movie is an Internet meme that has been around for a decade or more. I am not joking. Admittedly, it’s a horror-related meme, but the nature of memes is that it is played out by the time this movie comes by way, and worse, it’s the least interesting kind of revelation to have in this movie. If the viewer is taken with the twist, then they can watch this movie again to try to figure out the parts where this twist is foreshadowed, or come up with theories to explain the other red herrings introduced to obfuscate things.
Me, I’m underwhelmed by the twist, so when the movie ends, I just shrug and move on with my life.
The acting is okay, although the poor cast members are sometimes made to say some corny lines that make me cringe, but this movie is all about the big reveal. Everything it does is to build things up to that reveal. Hence, since I am not wowed by the reveal, the movie does little else for me once it has placed all its cards down on the table, so to speak.
Is it worth a watch? Well, I suppose there’s no harm to give this a try, as who knows, you may end up being bowled over by the big reveal and hence like this one more. Still, there may be other more interesting movies out there that don’t bet all it has on the viewer being impressed by the reveal. You’d have to take a gamble, but then again, all mystery box movies are like that.
