This one’s on me… or maybe 50% is a me thing and 50% is the movie. Give or take. Percentages subject to change without notice. But, yeah, my combo of minor face blindness and ignorance of these actors turns a metric ton of body swapping into my personal nightmare.

It’s What’s Inside is the MOAB of body swap movies. Eight or nine twenty something friends wind up swapping bodies as a party game (as you do). Who’s in who’s body? Hell if I know. I mean, hell if they know! Craziness ensues.

Yeah, a body swap movie is bad enough once you get over two characters, now imagine eight characters who are all of about the same age. Now give us no time to really know them and then have them pretend to be each other. Now imagine a guy (me) who won’t remember your name twenty minutes after meeting you. Now make him watch this nightmare.

Eventually the film more-or-less finds an existential nightmare groove but I’d long since checked out. And the film even tries to help out by occasionally giving us flashcards of who is really in a body at any given time, but since I don’t know the current face, the original face doesn’t help matters.

And, yeah, this is partly on me but also partly on the baffling nutso choice of making this movie in the first place. Ninety minutes isn’t enough time to establish who this many characters are. Hell, it’d take half a season of tv for it to work as planned.

The only way this movie worked for me was in the direction, editing, and fun visual tricks. Genuinely a neat looking flick with a lot of clever ideas and fun shots. No argument there.

So this flick just didn’t work for me… it might work for you if you are better at being a human being than me. Or are more willing to go with the <shrug> “whatever they wanna do is fine with me” approach. My stick is too stuck in the mud for that, I guess.

Score: 67