The following review makes reference to the 2015 film The Gift, and does not contain spoilers of any type.

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Year: 2015 Category: Psychological Thriller. Director: Joel Edgerton.
Cast: Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton, Tim Griffin, Allison Tolman.

Plot

The life of Simon and Robyn, a young couple who has just moved to a new home in California, begins to be uncomfortably disturbed when they begin receiving mysterious gifts from a former schoolmate.

Opinion

Simon and Robyn try to forget the past and start over, since Robyn had problems with a pregnancy, so now that Simon's career is going well and will probably be promoted, they decide to move to a new house and then go shopping, where they meet Gordon "Gordo" Moseley, a former schoolmate of Simon.

Soon Gordo begins to give gifts to Simon and Robyn, and then he visits the house when Simon is not there, he talks to Robyn and continues giving presents and being very helpful. The situation uncomfortable to Simon, but Robyn thinks that Gordo is being friendly, also believes that Simon is exaggerating the situation.

The direction is very good, at the beginning is dedicated to follow the manual of the genre, the first 40 minutes are almost exclusively psychological thriller, and although the edition always remains and equal, the next 40 minutes become a drama, for finally return to the thriller but now lighter.

Joel Edgerton is the great architect of this film, who is not only responsible for being the producer and directing in a great way, but also wrote the script with which I was very satisfied, because just when we think we knew what would happen, we are surprised. And then, it surprises us again. But it's not just about his great direction and great screenplay, but he also acted in the film, playing Gordon "Gordo" Moseley, and he does it very well. Just fantastic. The performances of Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall were very good too, especially Rebecca, because although I think Jason does it in a great way, I also have the impression that someone with other physical characteristics was better fitted with the description of the character than him interpret.

I think it's a solid film, I did not expect much from it, and I was pleasantly surprised. At first I thought it was the classic manual film, but then it showed me that it is not like that.

Although if I have to mention something negative, it is that I thought that the story is not very credible, but it is something purely fictional, because all events are presented in a very unlikely when you think about it.

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Score

8/10

Acceptable film, with a couple of twists that will surprise anyone. At the time of publishing this review the film is available in the Netflix catalog for the following countries: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, India, Italy, Japan and Mexico.