Hurry Up Tomorrow is an hour and forty-five-minute music video featuring roughly 4 songs, one of which was played twice, and the other played roughly three times. No character is memorable, The Weeknd is acting as himself, and there’s utterly no dialogue to be found throughout. No one should care about this movie, and no one should go to see it.
About the Story
Hurry Up Tomorrow might break the record for the shortest plot summary for a movie ever; this is mainly due to its terminal lack of any plot. The Weeknd, played by Abel Tesfaye (himself), is on tour and distraught after a breakup. The character “Anima,” played by Jenna Ortega, sneaks backstage at The Weeknd’s show.
The Weeknd tries to escape after they return to a motel together, but Anima knocks him out. Before waking up, the Weeknd experiences a hallucinogenic dream in which Anima explains the “deep” meaning of all of his songs while he is strapped to the bed. His manager, Lee (Barry Keoghan), follows The Weeknd to the hotel room, where they are confronted physically by Anima.
You might be wondering why the plot summary was so empty. That is because this is literally everything that happens in the movie. Literally Everything. There’s essentially no actual dialogue in this movie so the characters are not memorable at all.
Worth Watching?
This whole movie is one big self-congratulatory, shallow thinkpiece by The Weeknd, the person who made the art its “thinking” about in the first place. There is no reason to explore the meaning of the songs, thus, there is no movie to make. Not to mention the incredibly on-the-nose symbolism of Anima and The Weeknd being the same person. At the end of the movie, they fade their two faces together just to really… hammer the point home.
This movie had so many different lighting choices that each meant absolutely nothing. Between the rave and concert scenes in the first act of the movie, the constant swooping and 360-degree panning camera shots, this movie will genuinely make your eyes sore. My personal favorite filming choice they made was focusing on five percent of the screen at a time. That drove across the symbolism of this movie being both figuratively and literally unwatchable. Additionally, every single camera shot had a minimum of about half a minute run time, making every scene feel long and boring.
Verdict
In an era of movie clones, it was good to have a little time to process information. The horror and thriller elements were entertaining when they were present, but it was simply too much time. All in all, there is no need to watch this film.
