Latency is a sci-fi thriller that doesn’t know how to sci-fi and winds up a generic horror flick. I suspect they didn’t know how to stretch their concept out to 90 minutes so just filled it with haunted house (apartment?) stuff you’ve seen before.

The flick is about a pro video gamer/tester with severe agoraphobia so she won’t leave the apartment. She receives Not-Apple’s new VR/AR-type gear that she’s asked to test… it’s a device that reads her brain patterns so she can use her PC hands-free.

And since it’s reading her brain, it distorts reality… and she can’t take it off. And yeah… that’s the gimmick. She doesn’t know what’s real or fake because the magical head mounted device shows her whatever random shit the screenwriter thought up to fill a few minutes of screen time. Is the neighbor real? What’s with the screaming banshee? Oh, it’s the Tetris effect, I guess.

The acting is ok, the presentation a little dark, and the very very very end is all right for an ending that doesn’t have an ending. I’ve seen better reality distortion films and better VR-esque techno thrillers (thought not by much).

This film is just too generic to care about. I didn’t find any of its jump and scream moments very scary, possibly because it’s too obviously being simulated by the device. Eh. Meh. Whatever.

Score: 64