Every Breath You Take is a searing psychological thriller about a psychiatrist (Casey Affleck), whose career is thrown into jeopardy when his patient takes her own life. When he invites his patient's surviving brother (Sam Claflin) into his home to meet his wife (Michelle Monaghan) and daughter, his family life is suddenly torn apart.... (Full plot summary below)
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Every Breath You Take is a searing psychological thriller about a psychiatrist (Casey Affleck), whose career is thrown into jeopardy when his patient takes her own life. When he invites his patient's surviving brother (Sam Claflin) into his home to meet his wife (Michelle Monaghan) and daughter, his family life is suddenly torn apart.
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| Chicago TribuneKatie WalshEvery character is merely a stereotype or symbol, not a fully-fleshed out person. Indeed, one has to wonder what every actor, including Monaghan, is doing in this flimsily written psychological thriller, but perhaps, that question isn’t even worth the speculation. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanThe movie carries you along, and it’s got some high-tension moments, but there are one too many coincidental running-into-each-other-in-town close encounters. |
| Screen RantMae AbdulbakiThe cast does a lot of the heavy lifting in the film, which evades exploring the characters' trauma. The emotional drama is a vehicle fueling a messy story in a film primarily concerned with elevating the mystery that so easily unravels by the end. |
| The New York TimesKristen Yoonsoo KimWith only a few fleeting moments of nail-biting thrills, Every Breath You Take remains mostly tepid and frustrating. |
| The GuardianCath ClarkeThe whole thing hangs on a twist that anyone who has ever watched a trashy thriller will have cottoned on to at around the 20-minute mark. |
| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyThe film initially pretends to have some sensitivity about mental illness, but blatantly trivializes it and uses it as a crutch upon which to hang the villain’s increasingly maniacal actions. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenSam Claflin is best in show, but his performance is undercut by the film’s inability to escalate or explore the ramifications of its premise. |
| User ReviewJLuis_001Inert and exaggerated. Every Breath You Take apparently has the idea that despite looking totally like a conventional thriller, it isn't, but let's just say the play doesn't go well, and ends up in an unpleasant position. Predictability is certainly its largest weakness, but if you add that the three main characters can't fit together in the absence of a noticeably better plot development, Every Breath You Take starts to break down pretty soon, and it's frustrating and flawed until the bitter end. |
| User ReviewMauro_Lanari(Mauro Lanari) By now they are defined "movies in Casey Affleck style", yet this time he has even surpassed itself for the worse: "All psychiatrists are charlatans and frauds". It's certainly true for how his character acts, and in general for how his professional category believes it can/knows how to manage death. |
