Clock was a frustrating watch for me. My feelings on the movie kept changing as what it was about ebbed and flowed.

The flick is about a woman who’s biological clock is NOT TICKING LIKE THIS. Her husband wants a baby but only if she does… and she adamantly does not. So she decides to go to a clinic that promises it will change her desire to have a baby. And since this is a thriller/horror film, things get weird.

I thought this flick was pretty middling in its first (and a decent amount of its second) act. But I could see the underlying anxiety they were building and I allowed that some of them simply were not things I feel. And then it kept spinning its wheels with mediocre horror movie clichés… and then, yeah, it got better. I got more into the anxiety… and then it provided a couple shrug twists and ended flat (and with some strained metaphors too).

The anxiety of society insisting you want kids. The anxiety of not satisfying your loved ones. The anxiety of ending centuries of family line. The anxiety of doctors. The anxiety of medications and side effects. It’s all one swimming pool of anxiety and gaslighting that I can totally believe really hits for some people. I felt it a little… mainly in the loss of control… but not enough of it.

The flick may work for you. I think there’s some pretty decent ideas here that are surrounding by mediocre horror movie clichés and a shrug of an ending. At least I wanted the ending to be better which means I cared a little bit.

Score: 70