Y2K (My Review)

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I’ve watched the original Y2K movie before, but I don't really remember it to be anything like this movie though. The movie follows the classic formula of the lonely teen who just wants to kiss his crush on New Year's Eve, which in my opinion is not too much to ask. So he goes to the party with his wise cracking, overconfident best friend who wants to get so laid.

But I guess all of those end-of-the-world TV movies of 1999 were correct, when midnight hits and the machines do come to life and try taking over the world. The movie plays along like it's “Super bad meets maximum overdrive”, and there's things to like about it. It'll have a clever gag like when they get to the house party,
and it's divided into sections where people represent different music stereotypes of the time.

They have fun with the initial carnage when the machines come to life. It also doesn't play it safe with who lives and who dies. At some point in the movie, there are people who you think will be in it for a while, but then are gone, just like that. There'd be background lines from a random person in the crowd that would be funny, and being the kind of movie it is.

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It does have a good soundtrack. It winks at the camera a lot about the time period, but there are parts where they're shit-talking each other at the party, and the exchanges feel authentic, but then once midnight hits everything goes south –mainly the movie. I'm sorry but if I am being honest, I really didn't like this film.

I mean, here's something that could have been very, very clever, but instead just takes a blueprint for a generic movie like this and checks all the boxes. It's one of the most first drafty movies I've seen in a while. It's got everything, from one of them happens to be an ace hacker, and the machines are all on a hive mind, and “to save the world we must get to the school immediately.” It struggles with tone, which could still be fine.

If done well, I don't mind something that's silly, then has serious moments to remind you that the stakes are high. But when this gets super dramatic is when characters die, which I don't really care, because I don't like the characters enough to care. It grinds to a halt when it gets serious. The characters are either annoying, or they're assholes, or they're every single love-sixteen you've seen in a hundred movies by this point.

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They have a cameo in it too, like the movie once its own zombie land-like cameo, and at first I rolled my eyes, but then this person does become the best character in it, and the most likeable too. For all the other characters, it's the kind of movie where they'll just stand around waiting to die, because the movie says they have to.

Some of the violence is funny, but it's also like, “Why was his arm in a garbage disposal to begin with?” Or like, “How he has his own friendly ET robot for a minute,
just long enough to give them exposition in the form of a silly video.” There are scenes that feel like they happen just so they can isolate the clip and put it on YouTube, like when there's a dance video at the end credits.

My Rating on the Movie

Seriously, you will get way more laughs out of one of those 1999 movies that were unintentional comedies. This was a D+. It starts mediocre and just gets worse as it goes.

That's my take on the movie, thanks for reading.