Review of Fresh (2022) by Jluis_001 — 05 Mar 2022

Simple and practical. Fresh really doesn't look for unnecessary fuss or fanfare. The story is simple, a mix of the social anxiety of online dating and cannibal horror. Noa the young lead character is looking for a man. I wouldn't say the love of her life, but a decent man, and when she meets the one who seems too good to be true, plot-wise uncomplicated if predictable, it turns out that this man is actually too good to be true and not in a good way. Fresh's critique of the horrors that modern dating can entail is present. There are some scenes involving the fear and verbal abuse that women often experience in that arena, but Fresh is not a film that seeks to be a purely social commentary story. It never delves too deeply into that area because ultimately the overall concept is and remains that of a horror film. The plot collapses in a poorly prepared third act that is limited by its setting to a death-or-escape closure that fails to build to a satisfying payoff.

It cleverly doesn't push things too far and knows it's time to conclude, but at that point the very absurdity of the story is merely functional cause there was no where else to go. Was good, but it will only stay with you for a moment.