Three MIT students – Jonah, Nic, and Haley – are on a road trip to move Haley to California. Part way through the journey, Nic and Jonah discover that a hacker named NOMAD, who nearly got them expelled for breaking into MIT servers, has found their location and is taunting them with strange and ominous emails. They track NOMAD to an abandoned house in the middle of Nevada and decide to go after him. It's a decision that will have repercussions they never could have expected ...
Unfortunately, said repercussions are unexpected because they don't actually follow on from previous events in any kind of coherent manner. The script is constantly looking to throw the next mystery or twist at you without ever considering if it has actually established the necessary foundations to land it with any real emotional or narrative impact. To me the whole thing feels like the film-makers desperately waving their hands and chanting "oooh spoooooky" in the hope that you won't notice that none of it makes a lick of sense.
A waste of your time (which is a shame, because the cast are solid and could have given us something worthwhile with a decent script).
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