Review of Regression (2015) by Aubreyr — 10 Feb 2016

Anyone with half a brain will find it very difficult to suspend their disbelief watching this movie. Almost nobody in this film behaves in a rational way. Cops don't behave like cops, and detectives jump to premature conclusions which they explicitly base on "not a shred of evidence.

" Very hard to watch, especially if you are skeptically minded (in the proper sense, as in basing your beliefs on evidence). The plot is contrived and the directing is sub-par (we know these actors can do it, but performances fall flat).

I almost turned it off on multiple occasions. The only time when any of the characters actually do anything with believable motivation is at the very end of the movie, when they finally realize that they are idiots and everything they thought all along was just hasty generalization with a lot of jumping to conclusions.

If you are non-skeptical minded (e.g. the type who likes to believe in conspiracies or other nonsense which has no basis in fact or evidence), then this movie is probably a good one for you.