There’s an excellent sci-fi idea at the heart of Spoiler but it’s utterly wasted on a bad film with bad acting. The idea involves a Gilliam-esque society with a developed judicial system that punishes repeat offenders by placing them in suspended animation. When they’re released their loved ones have aged or died but they haven’t, so the punishment seems instant (for the convict) but the resulting anguish lasts a lifetime. There’s so much potential there that opens up so many doors, but when Spoiler lurches toward one of the more attractive ones it trips over its own shoelace (that it was too stupid to learn to tie) and shamefully crawls through.
1 cold one out of 5
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