I Came By

Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): August 31, 2022

5.0	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Ratings

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jsjaspreetSep 5, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Absolutely garbage. Movie will insult your intelligence. The characters make completely irrational decisions, for example the masseuse gets drugged by the judge, goes to jail, gets out, sees the judge on the street, and willingly gets back into the judge’s car based on some immigration threat. Let me get this straight, this guy JUST got DRUGGED and NARROWLY escaped god knows what from this guy he doesnt even know and willingly gets back into that same persons car a short while later? Terrible garbage.… Expand

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ZingersBaobabSep 1, 2022

So painful to watch. This could have been a great film, the premise is good, but it’s let down by thoroughly unlikeable protagonists and such heavy handed politics (although I did find it fairly amusing that the hyper-woke, right on, graffitiSo painful to watch. This could have been a great film, the premise is good, but it’s let down by thoroughly unlikeable protagonists and such heavy handed politics (although I did find it fairly amusing that the hyper-woke, right on, graffiti artist protagonist is a misogynist who abuses his mother).… Expand

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MeritCobaSep 17, 2022

There is a market for low-budget movies like this thriller, but you need to add something crunchy to the mix to make it stand out, such as a well-written script, an original take, tense dialogue, interesting characters, and good pacing. IThere is a market for low-budget movies like this thriller, but you need to add something crunchy to the mix to make it stand out, such as a well-written script, an original take, tense dialogue, interesting characters, and good pacing. I pick these examples on purpose because the movie is devoid of them. The basic story is so mundane that it baffles the mind. This script must have landed on someone's desk, and that someone must have given it the green light. I can only assume that there was some mistake with the original good script, and the wrong one was given the go-ahead. Or is Netflix's plight so dire that they can only get the mediocre ones?

In my mind, I see Netflix canvassing the universities for graduates hoping they get lucky. Perhaps they were inspired by Stalin's remark that quantity has a quality of its own.
And to drive the point home: there is nothing remarkable here, even though there could have been if the makers had just changed some parameters. One thing to take at heart is to invest in the protagonist and not swap him out halfway into the movie with another one. Or perhaps you could have considered making someone else the protagonist, like the mother. This would have created an interesting angle: the mother must learn from her son. Another piece of advice is that less is more. If you don't have the budget, why establish multiple protagonists? I go as far as that there are three. The worse aspect is that the movie feels overlong because it spends so much time on their backgrounds. And this would be fine if this was a social drama, but it isn't: it's a thriller. A thriller has the protagonist, the underdog, pitted against the superior antagonist, and the movie ends with their roles being reversed in a clever or unusual way. The film goes through the ropes but is never clever or unusual. Now to give you an example of what could have been done. The antagonist could be exposed by streaming the whole on the internet. This could have been foreshadowed by the son filming his break-ins and publishing them on the internet. Instead of the son, the mum will be the story's primary focus. Her son breaks into the antagonist's house and disappears. She has to find out what happens and then is up against the seemingly unassailable antagonist. And with the help of her son's friend, she chips away at the antagonist until he crumbles and falls. A few points.
1 There is one protagonist and it will be the mother.
2 What happens inside the mansion will be unclear until the end. There is footage, but it is distorted or unusable. This adds to the mystery. This is the old wisdom of not exposing the monster until the end. I would have omitted every scene inside the house. Instead, what happens in that house is something the mum observes from the outside. She calls the cops. They go in and come out. What has happened? She asks the cops; they tell her they didn't find anything. She learns that the antagonist is best buddies with the police chief. The low point for the mum would be that the antagonist uses his influence and connections to set the whole apparatus of law enforcement on her(including perhaps making her out to be a nutcase), which makes the antagonist untouchable and powerful. 3 The parent-child relation gets swapped. The son becomes his mother's teacher. 4 I would make the son become the father instead of the other guy(actually, I think he should be given a small role or be left out entirely). This creates conflict with the mother(you, dad? You can't even hold a job down for more than a week?) and perhaps with his pregnant girlfriend. (You have to stop these break-ins, you get to be a father now).
5 The mum is not tech savvy, but she learns from her son about making movies by watching and learning from his films. This can then be used to make her understand her son more. (For instance, he makes money and has a large following, so while he doesn't hold on to a regular job, he has one: being a streamer). 6 The antagonist gets exposed through his security system. These are just some ideas I came up with in an hour, and in my opinion, it would have led to a better script.… Expand

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JLuis_001Sep 7, 2022

Netflix may be selling this ''suspense'' to its most simplistic audience, sorry if that sounds arrogant, but for me it was almost a mockery of how lousy I thought it was.
I even felt my intelligence insulted when George MacKay's characterNetflix may be selling this ''suspense'' to its most simplistic audience, sorry if that sounds arrogant, but for me it was almost a mockery of how lousy I thought it was.
I even felt my intelligence insulted when George MacKay's character dies because of how stupid it turned out to be, especially because of how the story gets lost after that occurrence.

I Came By is simply another throwaway from their catalog.… Expand

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Man_next_doorDec 3, 2022

Dreadful, hammy dialogue. Unlikeable protagonists. Wooly motive for the bad guy. All in, a thoroughly tedious slog that robbed me of nearly two hours. I have absolutely no idea why critics are praising this amateurish, flavourless tripe.

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