Goodbye Honey

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First of all, this is not a big budget Hollywood movie, it's super cheap, so it's not fair to use high standards to measure it. I admire what the production team (if any) did with just a few bucks, it's a great thriller where you don't know what's coming next, and when it comes it's a surprise, for example (spoiler) when the girl recognizes the furniture, you, like the girl in the movie, feel the chill and think, just like her, "it can't be". This movie is a lesson to all those filmmakers who don't have enough money but want to start making their own art. You don't need lots of money, what you really need it's a decent script with an interesting story that people might like, and one or more twists to keep people engaged.

It's actually not too bad a film. Obviously on a budget but the acting was fine and least the storyline was a bit different. Stick with it if you aren't sure to start with. It's not bad. Ignore the 1's. It's not a 1.

Oftentimes, when discussing more artful films, a general audience member may feel that the slower pace actually hinders their experience because "nothing is going on". In good movies, sometimes this complaint is disproven by the subtler details of a film, like an interaction between characters that holds a lot of depth beyond simply the narrow perception of what the characters are saying. A director has a specific vision for what they're attempting to accomplish and feels as though they can take their time to really develop it. Goodbye Honey (2020) is not one of those films. The direction is very bland and basic, showing a fundamental understanding of the core mechanics of filmmaking and nothing beyond that. The acting from the two principle characters is serviceable, while all the other actors are subpar. The soundtrack is a grating, thin John Carpenter-esque synthesizer loop that simply plays over and over throughout the whole movie in a way that's supposed to convince the audience what they're seeing is intense when it's really just a flaccid attempt to thrill. However, the biggest problem with this movie is the script and how frequently it wastes the audience's precious time on Earth. Dawn is a trucker that, while attempting to sleep in a state park overnight, is interrupted by Phoebe, who is desperately attempting to flee her captor. Phoebe and Dawn waste time for about 20 minutes in attempting to discern whether they can trust one another enough in a repetitive sequence of scenes that mean fighting over the most minute details. Then, once that plot point has been exhausted, there's a banging at the cargo door of Dawn's truck. Phoebe hides, Dawn opens it up to attempt to ward off kidnappers and phone 911 (Phoebe accidentally broke Dawn's phone for convoluted reasons), and bartering for a phone call takes 20 minutes and goes nowhere, with the only development in the plot being that Dawn's hair is now soaked in Mountain Dew. But wait, weren't those Phoebe's kidnappers? Well, evidently not, as once this scene ends, Phoebe reveals the two idiotic young men Dawn spoke with for 20 minutes weren't her kidnappers. So my question is, like many other sequences: what is the narrative point in including these scenes? Nothing happens, we don't learn anything meaningful about our characters. There is no theme that is developed or spoken on. It's just scenes of our characters experiencing trauma with nothing more added. Then Phoebe tells the story of her kidnapping in a hilariously-terrible sequence where a judge attempts to argue Castle Doctrine in shooting his own daughter and traps Phoebe in his basement ("I WAS WITHIN MY RIGHTS!"). The editing in these scenes is particularly obnoxious, reminding me more of Saw III than Room. After this overly-long flashback sequence is over, it's revealed that Phoebe's captor is actually the client Dawn is helping to move houses. (Cue canned audience gasping.) Then, in the final minutes of the movie, Dawn and Phoebe kill the kidnapper by trapping him in the back of the truck and lighting him on fire with a molotov cocktail. This scene accounts for the *1* star I would give this movie, as it was the only moment where I felt my synapses firing at all. Rarely does a movie actually make me angry, even terrible movies can be fun to laugh at. Plan 9 from Outer Space is a terrible film made by a terrible director, but at least that movie had a theme and a purpose for existing. Goodbye Honey doesn't, so what does that make it? Don't bother.

The movie kept me glued to the screen throughout and even had me talking back to the screen at times. Very professionally directed and edited. Very good casting and score. I loved the selection of fruit that was served to the prisoner. I am very proud of the writer/director. I see a big future for him.

A lonely truck driver is approached by a desperate girl at a remote road side stop. The truck driver is exhausted from working and the girl seems out of her mind with paranoia. There are plot holes galore (truckers are restricted to the number of hours they can drive, for one. Truckers typically are connected by satellite to their dispatchers, etc.) but the performances are better than they are in most indie films. I liked the movie in spite of the flaws, and enjoyed the grinding sense of unease it delivered. Give it a chance.

This shoddy waste if time was enragingly bad. Between the laughably terrible acting, plotholes you could drive a truck through, & illogical story, it beggars belief anyone rated this nonsense more than 1 star. Some prize chump admitted to watching this garbage TWICE. On PURPOSE. Wtaf. It was awful on literally every level & everyone involved should be banned from film making. Ffs.

The the writing is horrible the story is horrible I could go on and on but I'd be wasting your time just don't watch it Banging your head against the wall would be time better used.

This movie could have been like a 10 but Pamela Jayn Miller did not ask this real well and her script was terrible but she could not act like excite not excited but like scared she couldn't pull off being shocked so for example when this girl first comes up to her and tells her she's been kidnapped she doesn't play her answer well and some reason without any reason she just doesn't believe her there's also a scene that was written that like she lost her keys and instead of them just continually looking for her keys until they find them so they can leave with the truck they just stop so there were a couple scenes that were written really bad that drops the overall tea reading it do p lol,

If this is what I have to look forward to as far as future movies go, I might as well just give up now. There was no real connection or emotion between the two lead actresses'. The whole "Pour Mountain Dew over your head" was sad and laughable. No one in their right mind would do that with a BAT pointed at them. I mean a BAT, come on! Then the story changed and I thought maybe just maybe there would be hope for this movie yet. I was wrong! Boring, slow, even the high points were muted by the bad acting and lack of a good story. I do not recommend this movie at all and anyone rating it over a 5 is lying. This movie was not even half good.