Review of Compliance (2012) by Icefyre — 04 Jul 2021

Compliance is the worst movie I have ever seen in my whole life. Though the movie is based on real life events, the actors and situations that occur don't seem to be very realistic. The one good thing about this movie is that it provides some form of awareness, but now that I am aware, I am just upset that people are stupid. I don't know if the script was the problem or if it's everyday life human beings just being humans, but something in this movie just really pissed me the hell off. Officer Daniels, a fake police officer who is the antagonist pulling the 'prank phone call turns to sexual assault' thing, is not charming enough, at all. As a viewer, I'd like to feel that I can also trust this guy but it was so obvious to me that he was fake that I just couldn't see how these people couldn't. It is nice that we got to see that this is just an everyday man with a kid, but he really just... wasn't that great. He sounded confident, but people can sound confident and stupid. He was clearly stupid. I don't know how anybody in their right mind could ever believe he was a cop. This was the worst example ever and he is the worst fake cop I have ever seen. Anyone with half a brain could have known that this loser wasn't a cop, just by the way he spoke and the words he used. It was so bad. The worst, actually. The absolute worst. It was a disaster. It literally ruined my night and my perception on movies that are based on true stories. Rebecca, or Becky, was the fast food worker who was the main victim to "Officer Daniel's" assaults. However, she is also not the brightest. She does not know how the law works, and Sandra, do not get me started on Sandra. Sandra was such an unrealistic manager, you'd think that managers would have at least some sort of common sense but nope. Sandra, even though she may be stressed, is still the manager and was given this job for a reason. This wouldn't be the first time that they have a lot of people, so she should be used to that stress. On top of the stress of handling a police officer, she should have noticed. She really should have. Especially since the movie states that a police station is a half mile away and Officer Daniels just doesn't show up. Sandra is a silly goose, a little silly in the head. Rebecca, on the other hand, is more believable with two authority figures and the fact she really didn't want to lose her job since she had a reason for wanting it. Harold, a respectable man who showed up right at the end, was smart enough to just not listen to "Officer Daniels," which really made me question Sandra even more. Van, was watching over Sandra before Harold came, and it's insinuated that he's a little drunk and that he sexually assaulted her. This would be believable too but Sandra really shouldn't have let it get to this point in the first place. I don't think I have ever once in my short life known a strip search to happen without an actual police officer in sight, especially if the crime was so important as "Officer Daniels" tried to make it out to be. The witness that Officer Daniels brought up or the surveillance team, why did it not go through anybody's mind to just ask the simple question of, "HEY??? HEY BUDDY OFFICER DANIELS WHO WAS THE LADY? CAN WE TALK TO HER? HOW MUCH MONEY? WHAT WAS THE COLOR OF THE PURSE? I THINK THE REGIONAL MANAGER WOULD LET US KNOW SOONER IF THERE WAS A SURVEILLANCE TEAM??" Sorry for the capitalization. When Sandra called the regional manager around the end and we figured out that he was never in the call with "Officer Daniels," like, why didn't they do that in the first place? It just makes this movie very detestable and very unrealistic. Needless to say, this is the worst movie I have ever seen in my whole life and what makes it worse is that it's based on a true story. I don't think half of what I said could even briefly describe how much hate I have for this movie.

After reading a quick review by TylerDsCreation, I have decided that this movie may not be as simple as I thought. "Officer Daniels" is truly a sick man and I didn't truly realize until TylerDsCreation pointed it out, that he really was causing confusion. When people are confused or panicked, they don't think straight and get tunnel vision which I'm assuming is why they complied so easily. However, this does not safe the movie from being a complete failure to accurately show the true events of the truly traumatic things that happen in the real world which make people think that it's just stupid. If they had done better, I wouldn't have needed to read a review to convince me these people were brainless idiots. It's a bad movie.