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Netflix fans warned ‘don’t waste time’ on thriller ‘I switched off’(Image: RELATIVITY MEDIA)

It received a disappointing 31 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

A recent thriller that’s just dropped on Netflix UK has been critically maligned despite its star power.

This 2023 thriller led by Ben Affleck was added to the service today (Thursday, 30th April), but subscribers have been warned not to bother.

Affleck stars as Danny Rourke, an Austin, Texas detective investigating a series of mind-boggling crimes, enlisting the help of a psychic to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of his daughter.

Along the way, Rourke starts to interrogate his reality as the case calls into question everything he thought he knew about the world, while he is also pursued by a sinister presence.

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A grieving detective enlists the help of a psychic to find his missing daughter(Image: RELATIVITY MEDIA)

Although the synopsis of Hypnotic, directed by Robert Rodriguez, sounds intriguing, reviews for the action-packed thriller that also stars Queen of the South’s Alice Braga were sadly disappointing.

A scathing 1/10 review on IMDb described it as “quite possibly one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen”.

They went on: “The writing is so lacklustre, acting is awful, you can tell Ben Affleck is zoned out the entire movie due to poor script, and the frequent ‘plot twists’ had every viewer in that theatre confused because none of them made any sense to the story or would just retcon the previous one which made no sense to anyone.

“Almost every viewer was laughing about thirty minutes in due to how bad it was.”

Someone else urged other users: “Seriously, don’t waste your time watching this movie. The plot makes little sense with its myriad loopholes. The dialogue had me dumbfounded,” they added, accusing the script of being written by ChatGPT. “I couldn’t focus on the movie not just because of how bad it is, but weird.”

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This mind-bending thriller has been dubbed ‘Inception for imbeciles’(Image: RELATIVITY MEDIA)

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Another review branded it “ridiculous nonsense” and said: “I was open minded at first, sounded like it could be ok, but nope, complete drivel.

“Painful to watch and I gave up after 20 mins. DO NOT BOTHER WATCHING. A bad version of Inception meets Jason Bourne, supernatural thriller home badly wrong. Perhaps Affleck thought he could pull this off, unfortunately not.”

And a final fan made a similar damning critique, dubbing Hypnotic “Inception for imbeciles”.

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“The ending is SO ridiculous that had I been in a movie theatre I would’ve walked out immediately so as to not waste any more of my time (I streamed it at home, Thank god),” they wrote.

Despite the poor reviews, Hypnotic does have its fair share of defenders and received a more generous 62 percent audience score from Rotten Tomatoes users.

One IMDb user called it one of director Rodriguez’s “best films” and said: “This is a seriously entertaining, well performed, engaging, curious, and thoroughly enjoyable film.”

Will you be judging for yourself or giving Hypnotic a wide berth?

Hypnotic is available to stream on Netflix.