“Hypnotic” plays the most tedious type of bad movie mind game, in that it’s neither as sharp as it wants to be, nor self-aware or goofy as it could be.
It does have a juicy, fruitful pitch—to stretch the realities of hypnosis and use them for a psychological thriller about mind control in which a shrink’s patients black out and commit unspeakable acts.
But the thrills here, whether you want to believe what “Hypnotic” is hawking, are far too mild to be satisfying for even a mindless viewing.
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