The Beta Test (2021)
5/10
The Beta Test
9 May 2024
Jim Cummings plays Jordan Hines, an ambitious, outspoken, extremely wired and deeply confused ex alcoholic Hollywood agent who is days away from getting married. One day he receives a letter inviting him to a confidential, no strings sexual encounter, which he accepts. Thereafter the mystery of who he was with (he had to wear a mask) and the potential threat he is faced with drives him around the bend and he set out to discover who has organised this. Meanwhile users of the service are being killed and prompting suicide when their indiscretions are discovered.

Whether you enjoy this so called dark satire on Hollywood is obviously a matter of taste, however it's unlikely you'll forget it in a hurry. The script and subsequent editing operate at a million miles an hour supported perfectly by a bizarre performance by Cummings, playing an even more bizarre, unhinged character. A lot of it is fun - I wouldn't call it funny, but you come away transfixed by the notion that such people might exist in Hollywood and why haven't they been murdered yet. Unique, somewhat amusing if not altogether fulfilling.
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