Spiderhead Twitter Review: Chris Hemsworth takes one for the win among a jumbled puzzle of fan reactions


On Friday, Netflix released its much-awaited Chris Hemsworth-starrer Spiderhead.

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The film had a lofty mount of great expectations attached to its

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head yet fan reactions on Twitter fell short of much praise.

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The film gained its initial momentum in the media for not only having Hemsworth on

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its poster but also for being directed by Joseph Kosinski, who also directed the recent blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick.

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In the light of such high expectations, the film according to the Twitter fam felt like a 3-starrer at best.

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For those unversed, the film's official synopsis reads, "Two inmates form a connection

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while grappling with their pasts in a state-of-the-art penitentiary run by a brilliant visionary

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ho experiments on his subjects with mind-altering drugs.

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