A woman who acts for a trouble shooter for a large corporation is brought in to get a brutal sexual assault under control before the story gets out and sinks un upcoming deal. However she quickly learns there is much more going on and she is in the crosshairs.
This is a story told via found footage, CCTV images, texts and computer screens. I mention that up front because some people, myself included, are wary of films told in this manner.
While I don't hate the computer age found footage genre I am not one to run out to see any film told in this manner. When the images and computer screens are put together well and logically I think the genre can be great, when it's not I think it kind of collapses.
Unfortunately COMPLIANCE is one of the times it collapses. The problem with the film starts early on when we begin to see CCTV images that make no sense. Why would our heroine have cameras in her home, and in those locations? The shot choices frequently include CCTV or hidden cameras in places where they never would be. I was taken out of the film because there was no logical reason why we are seeing these things (or why it would all be cut together like this.)
The bigger problem is that the way the story plays out makes no sense. Cops and most of the people in the film don't behave like they do in this film: a rape victim would not be left to just sit in a hopital waiting room, a corporate trouble shooter would not be allowed to run around like this because it would piss people off. No one on screen was a real person, rather they were a badly written character that was created based on watching bad conspiratorial thrillers and too many deranged YouTube videos about dark overlords.
I never bought a moment of it.
Honestly if I didn't trust the programmers at Fantaspoa so much I would have walked away early in the film and never mentioned seeing the film.
A miss
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