{"id":48792,"date":"2022-06-13T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/miles-teller-steals-the-show-in-another-negligible-netflix-original\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:19:09","slug":"miles-teller-steals-the-show-in-another-negligible-netflix-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/miles-teller-steals-the-show-in-another-negligible-netflix-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Miles Teller Steals the Show in Another Negligible Netflix Original"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Still riding on the high of “Top Gun: Maverick” ‘s box office-smashing success in recent weeks, director Joseph Kosinski is firing out another, less bombastic project on Netflix, created in Australia during the two pandemic years that delayed the release of the Tom Cruise vehicle.<\/p>\n

Adapted from a short story by George Saunders originally published in The New Yorker, \u201cSpiderhead\u201d imagines a not-so-unfeasible reality where a pharmaceutical company experiments on inmates with chemicals that can drastically alter a person’s behavior.<\/p>\n

In an increasingly rarer onscreen sighting of the Australian actor without his Thor attire, Chris Hemsworth plays a smarmy villain, Steve Abnesti, in charge of this ethically questionable pursuit, but still a pawn of the larger corporation that he claims forces him to push the boundaries of his test subjects’ health. He’s all smiles and pleasantries, but he’s hiding something sinister. Up in his Bond-villain lair overlooking the ocean, on the island where this supposedly more humane prison is located, this is the sort of kooky character that the likes of Jake Gyllenhaal or Oscar Isaac could make memorable; Hemsworth, not so much.<\/p>\n

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Steven and his sidekick Mark (Mark Paguio) attach a device to prisoners’ spines that dispenses a cocktail of drugs that they tailor to each captive. That Steven controls every substance administered from his cellphone feels at once accurate to our reliance on handheld devices and absurdly simplistic considering what’s at stake. Before a new dose enters the inmate’s bloodstream, Steve requests each to verbally \u201cacknowledge\u201d their consent of lei, creating the illusion of agency.<\/p>\n

Guilt-ridden over a car crash that landed him in jail, Jeff (Miles Teller) has become Steve’s preferred specimen. Early on, he withstands a drug that replicates sexual arousal and postcoital attachment with multiple partners; these scenes eventually fall into homophobic tropes about prison rape that ring lazy. But Jeff’s romantic interest rests in Lizzy (Jurnee Smollett), a fellow prisoner, and Steve will later exploit their relationship to try out another mix that causes paranoia.<\/p>\n