nataliegibbs Just going to put it simply and say that I did not enjoy this. If I didn't have trouble turning a movie off half way through, I would have. The story line was just so all over the place and didn't make sense for the characters in it.There is already a lot of trash talk on here for it and I feel bad for the actors/actresses and film makers who put time and effort in, so I do have one positive to throw in - the cast is all very pretty and I had no problems at all with that!

KongKristin The only things I liked about this movie was the 80's music, and seeing a lot of Noah Centineo without a shirt 💦👙(this is the emoji closest to panties 😆😉) The plot is horrible, and the acting is awkward. The IMDb rules says I have to write 5 lines in this review. You should not waste your precious lazy Sundays on this. I'm just using space now. Lol.

SpookyUser SPF-18 is a bad movie but not bad in the same way Fast and the Furious; Geostorm or any other mainstream movie is bad, it's bad almost exclusively because making movies is hard and this is the first movie Alex Israel has made. In fact, I almost feel empathetic toward Alex Israel, the film now hitting Netflix is going to result in a barrage of negative reviews and some really amazing negative reviews like the one above mine. We might even see this movie join the ranks of "Troll 2" or any other "so bad it's good movie." Yet, when I watched this movie it had a strangely positive effect on me. I think this is because I watched SPF-18 while taking a break editing my own short movie. In fact, it was exactly after I had finished the first cut of my movie and felt nauseous after seeing how unwatchable it was. Taking a break watching a "nice" movie - I thought - might make it easier to edit and distract me from the the reality of what I had made. Instead what I watched was SPF-18. During the movie there was a lot going on in my brain, the first scene played with the main character doing a type of Vlog or whatever and I thought the movie was shaping up to be interesting. Then the film proper started. I noticed the bad acting first, as it's the most noticeable, and to begin with I considered stopping the movie - but instead I continued watching it. As the movie played, I started just feeling bad for Alex Israel. I thought of what went into making my own movie; how hard it was trying to find good actors; how long it took to film; how high the hopes we had going in were and how mediocre and quite frankly unwatchable the results were. All this while watching the cringe delivery of lines frankensteined together with drone footage made me imagine Alex Israel on set trying to explain each character's motivation in the hot sun, when probably he was unsure himself; the millions of takes it took to get a shot of a Jeep turning off the road that was ultimately for a scene that turned out to be so unnecessary i'm surprised it even came up as an idea. But most of what I was thinking is that Alex Israel knows SPF-18 isn't good, just like I know the movie I'm currently editing isn't good. Not only that, anyone watching the final cut of SPF-18 knows it's not good. The actors, the grip and Pamela Anderson doing her completely necessary cameo - they all know it's bad. And yet here we are watching this movie on Netflix. This is certainly not what Alex Israel imagined in his brain when thinking of the movie and I can feel that deep deep deep down the movie has some goodness in it. If the script had better dialogue, if the acting was better we might have been watching something like Garden State, instead of what the film now is. But that's not what happened and this is what we are ultimately left to judge the movie by. What we are left with, while probably not what Alex Israel wanted, had a profoundly positive effect on me. As soon as SPF-18 was over I went back to editing feeling invigorated, for one reason alone: However bad my movie was, it wasn't going to be SPF-18 bad. I felt permission to suck. To a further extent, I, like Alex Israel, am going to make tons of bad movies before I make a good one. This is ultimately why making movies or choosing any creative pursuit is hard. Not because it's hard to technically make the film - though that too - but rather because it's hard to make bad things when you know that they are bad during the production of the bad thing. The slow and tortuous dynamic of making something bad and then getting a little bit better and then making something bad again but being a little bit better is how art works. You only get better by sharing it with the world. While there are certainly savants who have made perfect movies on their first try - that is not an accurate picture of how ordinary art is made. David Bayles and Ted Orland highlight this extremely well in their book "Art and Fear." Ordinary art is a skill that you get better at by getting humiliated most of the time. This message of "Art and Fear" and others like it, is hard to remember on it's own and it certainly is easier to remember when you are in between projects and harder to convince yourself of in the process of them. But to me SPF-18 provides the perfect reminder of "Art and Fear", "The War of Art" and others like them. Pressfield puts it best in this single sentence: "It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot."SPF-18 is exactly what Pressfield meant by that line. Being in the arena is not pretty, but it's worth it, because eventually; after getting knocked down enough times you will have made something worth making. I look forward to Alex Israel's next movie because I know that it will be better than this and, perhaps, in a couple years we might be looking back on Israel as a talented director.In the meantime I'm going to get back to editing my movie and perhaps, in the future sometime, watch SPF-18 and read this review again - when I need reminding of this message and how crucial it is to any creative endeavour.

Kandiman Dear all who love film,Drop whatever you're doing and watch this film on Netflix right now, because this is the new shorthand for "worst film ever made" and it's so bad that it has to be seen to be believed. Let me give you the "kind" version of my review.Let's start with the writing. The writing on this movie is so bad that I'm not entirely convinced it was written at all. I think it may have been vomited onto the page. This is essentially what happens if you get really, really stoned, write a thesis on existentialism whilst watching the OC then decide to adapt it into a screenplay and subsequent movie having consumed your body weight in acid on every day of the process. I mean, it's just terrible. In fact, this is an analogy that screenwriters will understand that demonstrates how bad the dialogue is: You know when you're struggling with a scene so you just drop in some placeholder dialogue to come back to and fix later? This is what happens when you don't go back and do that.Now the acting. I'm using the word "acting" so charitably here that it physically pains me. I have never, in all my life, witnessed anything quite so terrible as the acting in this film. I mean, some of the lead actors would struggle to get a callback for a kindergarten nativity play. I'm surprised that they could get insured to make this movie... you'd think it'd be dangerous putting this much wood under studio lights. Honestly, it just needed a couple of squirrels and we could've replaced the nonsensical voice-over with David Attenborough narrating and improved the movie a thousandfold. And, somehow, Molly Ringwald pops up in it. If she's getting that hard up for cash, can we please start a Kickstarter rather than let her humiliate herself like this again? And, as if the director was painfully aware that the level of acting in this was bad, in an almost way too ironic act of definitely unintentional parody, there are cameos from Keanu Reeves and Pamela Anderson. Seriously. I couldn't make this up.Oh, and the directing? Awful. Like, the worst student film-level bad. Every single choice is wrong. Every single one. There's footage used, shot on a camcorder by one of the actresses, that is the only footage in the entire movie that is framed in any way correctly. The entire movie looks like the camera operator did his job whilst sitting on a pneumatic drill in an earthquake except for the camcorder footage.Ladies and gentleman, I submit to you that we no longer need to discuss Plan 9 as the worst piece of cinema ever. SPF18, quite frankly, makes it look like Citizen Kane.Although, because I want to end on at least one positive, I'll give it this: That soundtrack is absolutely incredible. Like, every great song from the 80s appears at some point. It doesn't make sense for them to be there, but they are...