Linda Holmes

Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice.

And yes, I think we all call it by a variety of different names.

All right.

So this is one I was very much of two minds about this movie.

So

Apex is a Netflix movie.

It seemed when I saw the trailer like this was going to be right up my alley.

I like a thriller.

In the trailer, you see Charlize Theron playing this woman named Sasha who is doing a wilderness camping thing solo in an Australian national park.

She meets this seemingly friendly guy named Ben who is played by Taron Egerton who gives her directions and so forth.

But then he turns out to be a violent weirdo and he's chasing her through the woods, this kind of cat and mouse thing.

When you actually watch it, it is partly that, but I want to stress that this movie gets very, very wackadoodle by the end.

It spends more time than I anticipated with him kind of holding her captive.

I did not enjoy that as much because then you kind of have him kind of menacing and tormenting her, which is not as much fun, right?

Yeah.

But you also see some things that feel very much to me like the current Netflix formula, which is that you have to put an action sequence right at the very beginning, even if it's not really necessary for the story.

And the weird thing is they've packed this action sequence up front, and then it takes a really long time for the movie to actually get to the central action part.

You know what I mean?

There's kind of a long, dull part in between the action part at the beginning and the part where...

You know, he kind of goes into full, I'm going to chase you through the woods now, you better run.