Inoperable (2017) User Reviews

Inoperable is unwatchable

[casablancavic · 3/10 · 17 April 2018]

This is like a very very bad version of Groundhog Day.

Like a very very bad acid trip.

Like a bad bad bad hangover and like a very bad dream which you can't awake from.

First we have a 30 something year old made to look like an early 20's teen.

Then there is a beat-up hospital with almost no staff around - but when trying to escape, they just seem to be at every turn.

Then there's a hurricane thing which begins to complicate things even more...and then it just gets boring and stupid - or stupid and boring...whichever comes first.

Ahh, well - it was a free watch, so I didn't worry about the cost - and I had a day off...but I know there could have been better time spent doing nothing.

You need to get back in your room.

[nogodnomasters · 5/10 · 9 February 2018]

Amy Barret (Danielle Harris) wakes up, living a "Ground Hog's Day" episode in the hospital from hell. She allies with two people who find themselves fighting for their life against the staff. They conjecture that Cat 5 Hurricane Sybil which hit Fort Miller caused a disruption in the time line. It was interesting at first then went on to become boring and then the ending ruined everything turning this into a been there, done that type of film.

Had potential. Needed some light moments.

Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity. Some blood and gore.

Eh, it's not the best nor worst

[RuiChiu · 4/10 · 28 February 2019]

On the plus side, the concept behind the story is interesting, it's beautifully shot, the location works well. I found the actors to be competent, if a little green. To it's detriment, the story needs some work, nothing in this really wowed me. It's an ok watch once time killer. For an indie thriller, you could certainly do worse.

Horrible

[africe · 1/10 · 26 November 2019]

Good pretense but terribly written. I don't mind the time jump but it got irritating after the 3rd time.

Someday, I'll learn not to get my hopes up

[GreyHunter · 4/10 · 14 September 2019]

I vacillated over watching this -- the premise seemed interesting, but the reviews and ratings suggested that the execution didn't live up to the premise. I decided to watch anyway, partly because I prefer to decide for myself, partly because I have this hopeless optimism about premises that sound like something I'd enjoy.

It was..serviceable for a while. The gore seemed a bit gratuitous in the early going, but I held out hope that it would be explained in terms that made it indispensable, or at least logical. For at least the first hour, it seemed possible that everything that was happening would hang together once the twist/reveal/epic epilogue/whatever came. It didn't. Or, rather, the reveal was trite and poorly done even by the standards of triteness. It was one of those endings you could see coming a mile away and yet dismissed that possibility because the filmmakers surely wouldn't dip into that cliche well Yet they did, and poorly, leaving us completely baffled as to what *actually* happened, that is, what objectively took place. Because not only did it fail to explain the vast majority of the film's action, it failed to explain what Amy was doing during all of this, and what logic underlay the nature of the various aspects of the action. It answered maybe three minor questions and left the major ones unaddressed. It's not ambiguity if you don't even give us something to be ambiguous about.

The acting was...okay. Uneven, especially with the actress who played Jen, but okay, even if all the make-up in the world (and it certainly looked like they applied approximately all of it) couldn't disguise the fact that Danielle Harris, while still quite lovely, was at least 10 years older than her 30 year old character.

Someday I'll finally learn to stop letting my hopes for a good movie based on the synopsis triumph over common sense and experience. At least I got about an hour of ongoing hope out of this movie before it all fall apart. That's something, right?

Danielle Harris is washed up

[biscuitskhan · 1/10 · 27 February 2023]

That's what the ending should have been when they show her name in the comic book style effect..

This movie makes no sense she wakes up in a abandoned hospital searches for others finds nobody then steps on a needle then passes out and starts again but this time she finds people but gets ignored like she doesn't exist ok seems interesting but that's when it all went downhill..

She keeps waking up at the hospital and at the end it turns out she's just plain old mental.. But then I realised I must be the mental one for watching this rubbish movie all the way through..

It's actually a yawn fest.

Really bad

[angelicakilgren · 3/10 · 8 March 2019]

This movie is a sad way of showing off cool gore effects. Really bad acting and a thin plotline that never makes any sence. I gave it three stars just for the make up, which were actually nice

Decent story, not well made

[duckman_079 · 5/10 · 17 December 2020]

If you look past some of the unnatural dialog and a bit less than believable acting of some of the cast, you may think it's a typical time-loop slasher. About halfway through, the movie was barely holding my interest at all. But, I'm glad I saw it through to the end because the story became interesting as it progressed. It ends kind of sad, and kind of thought provoking. Overall, It was worth seeing for me, but may not be for less patient people.

I rather liked it.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 7 August 2020]

I have to disagree with many of the reviews here, I rather liked this film, sure it's all over the place, and it makes no sense, but it's original, and sure is entertaining.

I imagine they had a script, and set of ideas, and chose to middle them all up, as a film it makes no sense until the ending, and even then you'll be scratching your head wondering what you just watched.

I was reminded a little bit of Triangle, a similar sort of illogical order, but enjoyable.

The acting is patchy, but fits in with the film, but some of the imagery was good, menacing.

I'm not racing to watch it again, but it was fun, 6/10.

A Well Polished Student film.

[mattegallegos · 3/10 · 16 November 2020]

Synopsis: Amy Coney Barret replaces Bill Murray in a wildly unfunny twist on Groundhog Day, discovering additional pieces to the puzzle around her with each reliving.

Inoperable feels like a well-funded student film. Unfortunately, as with many student films, the casting is bad, the acting is awkward, and the story is poorly developed. This is a classic case of style over substance; the only enjoyable part of the movie is some of the camera direction and attention to detail in the practical fx. Onnthe other hand, however, one of the biggest problems breaking your suspension of disbelief is the set design, it tried hard to be silent hill but looks more like the janitorial staff at Scrub' Sacred Heart quit the day of. Wardrobe also suffers from the same problem, likely being managed by the same production designer.

Sound is... Good. Nothing particular stands out as food or bad in the audio department.

The pretty cool low budget sci-fi movie

[eliberator · 8/10 · 11 January 2019]

I really enjoyed this movie. Inoperable is an effective low-budget thriller.it is very eerie and atmospheric being stuck in the hospital with her....Amy Bennet... Very trippy movie if you can suspend belief a little bit.... those other reviewers who gave it low marks took it way too seriously ....and themselves too seriously also... I watch this movie late at night while falling to sleep because its pretty suspenseful...not scary...not horror...but fun and worth checking out...bababooey to yall

Pretty Decent

[kyleallencole9 · 6/10 · 27 June 2020]

Definitely watch this one for Danielle Harris. The movie itself was pretty decent, just the time loop theme didn't work well with the plot. I enjoyed the film up until the ending that just didn't make any sense to me at all. The gory effects were a bonus and the hospital setting was an excellent choice. Overall not too great, but worth a watch

Confused timeloop movie...!!

[kamalbeeee · 6/10 · 27 June 2021]

A girl waiting in car due to traffic jam but suddenly she woke at a Hospital and she no idea about whats happening around her.. Then she again and again she travel in timeloop and try to find what happening around her.. Climax is little confussing but we can umderstand in different way.. Must watch timeloop movie fans..!!

Not bad, it's okay

[maxim-93886 · 8/10 · 6 October 2018]

So I was intrigued and thought it's a horror, but to me, thit isn't a horror, maybe a psychological thriller or just a plain thriller ... When the events started happening, my first thoughts. Were Triangle (the one where the woman relives everything as she tries to escape the ship, where she finds out that she caused her son's death and then went on the yacht with her friends) but unlike Triangle where everything happens over and over, this one changes as they try to figure out how to escape - In the end Inoperable came with an unexpected twist which was quite surprising, then everything made sense. As for reality looking effects, according to me, not as good, they could've done better, cause I can think of many movies that tops theirs by far ... It's still worth the watch and I'll definitely watch it again

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[neji-san · 6/10 · 5 October 2020]

Wrote a Detailed Review and then my Internet connection was cut and the page refreshed. In Short, too small actress, Bad camera work, groundhog style, too long, ending was a mix between confusion and satisfying. Movie doesnt deserve a Rating under 5*. Gore, randomness, good ending, los Budget.

Groundhog's Day in the Hospital

[jadediamond · 8/10 · 19 July 2020]

Inoperable is a crazy movie about a woman named Amy (Danielle Harris) who is transported to a hospital after a car accident and constantly reliving the same moment over and over again like an endless loop during a Category Five hurricane artificially created in a military lab. She has nurses, doctors and a priest trying to tranquilize and lobotomize her. She constantly sees a young woman holding a stuff elephant and a cop named Ken (Ryan) and a beautiful model named Jen (Katie Keene) both trapped in the time warp too. Every time the cycles starts over and she resets to the beginning of the moment, she grows a little bit weaker and must figure out how to get out of the time loop before it's too late.

Inoperable was a crazy movie with a nice twist ending. This is one of the few times where a movie show the twist scenes at the end leading up to the incident which actually fills in the holes in the movie and help it make sense. And in a crazy way, the ending is more believable than the psychotic mind trip of a movie we're given. This may be a stretch but for Halloween IV (1988) fans, one could say the ending pays homage to that movie.

Crazy, enjoyable movie and one of the better horror films.

Interesting

[ladymidath · 8/10 · 11 April 2023]

I was not sure quite what to think of Inoperable. It started off quite well with an interesting premise. A woman involved in a car accident gets taken to a hospital where she is trapped in a horror hellscape. While I enjoyed it, I could also see a few problems as well. It started to become repetitive with the whole Groundhog Day scenario. There were quite a few imaginative kills and the story with the cop and the young woman he was escorting to make a statement about a drug deal that had gone wrong. I thought that was going to be the reason why they were all stuck in this recurring time loop, but then the story changed again. It was like the director just decided to do a complete 360 and start a whole new story. As much as I liked the ending, it seemed to veer off in a whole other direction. Still, I have seen worse films and this did have a few interesting ideas even if it did seem to lose focus towards the end.

No escape from the hospital from hell

[Woodyanders · 8/10 · 29 March 2018]

Amy Barrett (an excellent performance by Danielle Harris) finds herself trapped in a mysterious hospital that's beset by a savage hurricane. If Amy doesn't find a way out of said hospital by the time the storm ends, she may be stuck in the place forever.

Director Christopher Lawrence Chapman, who also co-wrote the tricky and compelling script with Jeff Miller, relates the gripping story at a brisk pace, milks the eerily empty hospital setting for all it's worth, maintains an intriguing enigmatic atmosphere throughout, and tops things off with a few neat moments of graphic gore. Harris ably carries the film on her tiny shoulders and throws herself into her physically demanding part by running a small marathon through the hallways. Moreover, there are sound supporting contributions from Katie Keene as spunky party girl Jen Ardsen, Jeff Denton as valiant cop Ryan, Crystal Cordero as the tragic Ophelia, and Chris Hahn as a hulking orderly. Giorgio Daveed's slick, kinetic, and inventive cinematography gives this picture a burst of thrilling energy. Jonathan Price's spirited shuddery score hits the stirring spot. The elliptical "Groundhog Day"-type narrative keeps viewers on their toes right to the genuinely surprising ending. Well worth a watch.

Pretty good but...

[bobgray-3 · 8/10 · 26 April 2020]

This is a fairly good suspense movie but it takes way too long to get to the conclusion. I know it's a time reset every time but not too much happens differently between the resets. I'm left with thinking , ok let's get on with it. But all in all a pretty good flick. I liked it. Good acting too.

Fantastic

[supernatural-62-813086 · 10/10 · 5 August 2020]

Another fantastic Performance from Danielle Harris Remember seeing the trailer for this and so glad it came on Prime. Great story loved every minute of it