Bad match

Year of release : 2017

Run time : 1h23m

Genre : Thriller / Mystery

The movie was written and directed by David Chirchirillo.

Harris is a man who uses a dating app to have s3x with women, and leaves while they are sleeping, in the middle of the night. If they wake up he tells them he has to wake up early or he still has work to do for the next day and that he has restless leg syndrome.

He looks them up online, before the date, to see what they are into, pretending he’s into the same things so they’ll trust him, and have s3x with him, and then he never talks to them again.

He has a good job, his boss seems to like him, as she favours him over his colleague to get an important deal.

When he’s not using women he plays videogames with a 15 year old kid who is always rude and vulgar to him, because he keeps on losing to Harris,although Harris is nice to him.

One night he meets Riley through the app, and his stupid excuses like work in the morning or having to shower don’t work.

He wants nothing to do with her anymore, because he got what he wanted from her, but she keeps calling and messaging him, because he said he likes and knows personally a band she likes, and that he’ll take her to their concert to meet them. He invites her over when she sends him a picture in lingerie, and she comes with alcohol.

He wakes up late the next day,as his phone rings, and finds out from his colleague he missed the pitch meeting,so they went with his colleague’s idea. Being in a hurry he leaves Riley at his place hoping she’ll leave, but when he gets home she’s still there, cooking. He politely throws her out, and throws away what she cooked.

He hates her now, because while sleeping at his place she accidentally shut down the alarm, and he missed the pitch meeting, thinking it almost cost him his job.

One night, as Riley keeps on messaging him while he plays video games with the kid, he offends him by saying it’s gonna be a long time until he’ll get a girlfriend, being into video games, and the kid leaves the game.

Because he doesn’t answer her calls and messages, Riley calls his office pretending to be his mother.

He complains to his friends about her, who kinda take her side, telling him he’s only using women to sleep with them, he never had or wanted a girlfriend. He calls her a lunatic, and Riley hears it, as she saw his friend’s post about him being at the restaurant at that time, and went to check on him, while he lied to her he was sick.

After this, things start getting bad for him, as his boss fires him seeing what was posted from his account about his job, her and his co-workers, but he says it must have been Riley.

He also has problems with his credit card, and the police come to his place, arresting him, as they say they traced huge amounts of child p0rnography being downloaded into his laptop.

Harris thinks this is Riley trying to get revenge for how he treated her, and is desperate to prove it.

 

I personally liked the movie.

Harris is unlikeable due to how he treats the women. He doesn’t see what he does as wrong and using them, as long as he gets what he wants from it, he thinks the women want the same thing as him, so it’s hard to feel sorry for him once things start getting bad for him, as it feels like karma. After his life is ruined, under the threat of going to jail or being known as a criminal his whole life, he goes to Riley’s place to apologize to her for how he treated her, but only so she’d confess what he thinks she’s doing to him, so his apology is not genuine, because he doesn’t feel any remorse for how he treated her or any woman.

The movie has a twist at the end which is priceless.

The acting was good.

The soundtrack was good.

The movie has a metascore of 56 from the critics and a 7.0 from the audience on Metacritic, and a 100% rating from the critics and a 46% one on Rotten Tomatoes!

Rating : Worth a watch !