#Manhole had a very interesting premise and good performances. I watched this because the Rotten Tomatoes reviews were mostly positive, and the one bad one said "it got ridiculous halfway through" which sounded just fine to me. Unfortunately they were pretty much correct. The film dances back and forth between a realistic situation and an over-the-top fantasy before finally being violently hurled towards the latter. Some of the weakest moments are that much of the plot involves the movie's version of Twitter, so there are long periods of reading tweets while the main character looks at a screen. The ending has me very conflicted, because while it was handled poorly it had a couple of good points to it. Overall it was a fun watch, but not anything I'll tell anyone they NEED to see.

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