Review of the 2022 Mystery Movie "Reset"
First, I mentioned this is an American movie because if you look for the movie "Reset" online it will show an Asian version first but this is an American version. This movie is classified as a survival thriller but I also put it into the mystery category because of the strange events happening at the end. This movie is very unnerving because it is about a "good" man named Edgar looking for love in all the wrong places. He sees a beautiful young woman, a college student Danielle on Facebook and wishes she was his bride-to-be. This man lived with his mother until his mother died and he inherited the house. This is how IMDb summarizes this movie, "A college student passes out at a party and wakes in the bedroom of Edgar, who seems nice but has sinister intentions. As she tries to escape, she finds an heirloom that may help her gain the upper hand against her captor."
Danielle Prefers the Bad Men
Danielle seems to be into getting drunk and having one-night stands with various men and she seems to enjoy this type of lifestyle. It reminds me of how some women prefer bad men to good men. So Edgar sees her on Facebook and he wishes she would be his own even though he knows he has had nothing but bad luck with dating women. I don't see how he thinks she will like him after he has seen what she is all about on Facebook and in person at the party that he also attended or where he went to kidnap her.
The Kidnapping of Danielle
So Edgar kidnaps Danielle and Danielle is a tiny woman and Edgar is this huge bear of a man and when you see them together they look like complete opposites. So Danielle wakes up in a bedroom in Edgar's home and Edgar enters her room and explains how she wound up in his house. He said her friends abandoned her at the party as she was drunk and he took her to his home to help her. At this time Danielle throws horrible words at him and tries to escape for at least 3/4 of the time of the entire movie. The whole time this is happening Edgar is very kind to Danielle but Danielle does not appreciate any of his kindness and she views him as a complete pervert which hurts Edgar very much.
Danielle's Many Escape Attempts
Edgar prevents many of Danielle's escape attempts all the while Danielle is trying to hit Edgar with objects but he catches her in time every time. Edgar gives crackers and meat to Danielle and water to drink and at one time she breaks the glass and tries to stab him with the glass shards.
A Mysterious and Sad Ending
The ending is very strange because it seems to be a different version of what happened in the first part of the movie. In this instance, Danielle acts all nice with Edgar for at least 10 minutes. Then they go into the kitchen and she says she will cook. Edgar is unsure about this because he knows the kitchen has many hidden weapons but since Danielle has been nice, friendly, and appreciative the last 10 minutes he trusts her and this is a big mistake.
As the spaghetti water is boiling and Danielle is cutting up a chicken, she drops the dry spaghetti on the floor and Edgar, the gentleman that he is, says "I will get it." As soon as Edgar is on the floor picking up the spaghetti she throws the boiling water at his face and stabs him many times. He manages to stumble into the living room where she throws his mother's ashes in an urn at his face. As Edgar lies dying on the floor she talks to him (I won't say what she said to keep the mystery going). As she sits on the steps outside the house waiting for the police she does mention that he got what he deserved.
My Observation of the Movie
My conclusion to this movie is that some women, mostly narcissistic ones, they want the bad men and they want to sleep around and they don't want a man who is kind and nice. This becomes clear because of how intensely she is fighting him every step of the way in the first 3/4 of the movie. The saying "nice men finish last" seems to be true at least in this movie and it also seems this is how it often happens in real life.
Edgar made the mistake of choosing beauty over good character when choosing a woman to kidnap to make her believe in him and accept him. Also, he makes another mistake thinking that if he could kidnap the beauty he could fix her with his kindness, of course, that would never work with a narcissist like Danielle but it might work with a good Christian woman who would lead him into the right direction even though he might have kidnapped her. He was looking for love in all the wrong places and then he applied kidnapping to this act and he lost his life because of the fierce character of the beauty Danielle.
I give this movie 4 stars **** out of 5 because the movie holds a lot of truth and is also full of suspense.
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