It had a chance to end on a different note to add more tension, but it ended just 10 minutes later. The conclusion didn't really feel like much of one. The thought was there, but the execution kind of drew away from all the good. For example, there's a relationship and we hardly know a thing. So many side plots are either not talked about enough to understand, or just dropped entirely. Like I said, there's so much working for it, but that just doesn't always work. Honestly, though, all it does is limit the potential. In some cases this does work in creating the anxiety. With the success of Unfriended and Searching, Profile utilizes the computer screen format. All of this is good, except one major thing. But with the twists and turns, it's dulled down to the obvious. Shasad Latif's character does have a good amount of development, and it works it the favor of the message and script. She has to have two different personas-one personal and one for her interviews- but slowly they mold into one. This is the first I've seen her in a lead role, but she carries the whole thing. There were times where I found myself on the edge of my seat waiting to see what move was to be played next. This is a really intense movie especially with how fast it goes by. It's inspired by a true story which makes it all the more crazy and intense. Fortunately, I received a screener and watched it on a whim. Technically, it is a wide release, but I don't think I've seen it playing anywhere. The makers of this have been hyping it up ever since the announcement of its release. Her daily Internet contacts with an ISIS recruiter gradually pull her in and push the limits of her investigation. "You wouldn't lie to me, would you?" Profile follows a British journalist going undercover and infiltrating the digital propaganda channels of the so-called Islamic State, which has been mobilizing ever greater numbers of women from Europe.
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