Red Dot is a Swedish horror thriller film directed by Alain Darborg. The plot sees a struggling young couple head up to the mountains for a hiking retreat to fix their issues before their child is born, however, once they head up the mountain they become the prey of a killer, a hunt for survival ensues. Real original I know.
Don’t waste your time with this please. I am a big defender of Netflix in a lot of ways, I think they are often given an unfairly hard time, however, when they release trash like this one can understand the hate. The film is deeply, and I do mean deeply unoriginal: this feels like the 4th or 5th time I’ve seen this premise done and it does not feel any fresher.
Moreover, the main couple, who I have no idea what they were called and don’t care to look it up, are two of the most bland and unlikeable characters ever put to film. The opening ten minutes is just them having argument after argument, yay? That’s interesting. To be frank with you by the time they made it up the mountain I already disliked them so much that I was hoping the killer would hurry up so I could lose less of my free time.
Everything about this film progresses as you would expect it to and there are no surprises.
Overall, the weakest Netflix original of 2021 so far.
Pros.
There are some pretty shots
Cons.
The main couple are awful, and you don’t care about them
It is not tense or scary
It is predictable
It is sorely unoriginal
0.5/5
Reviewed by Luke
Another Millennial Reviewer 