Marlon Wayans’ Performance is the Only Source of Tension In this Messy Psychological Sports Horror – ryan

With Jordan Pele Attailed as Producer, Hym Instantly comes with the expectation that this psychological sports horror might be intricately crafted Enough to dig more deeply into its – the price paid for famous and glory among. AFTER ALL, MOST SPORTS-RELATED MOVIES ARE HOPEFUL ONES. But it is isn’t a film directly by peele, and so the layered execution and storytelling prowey are lost in what is, essentally, a themetically muddled horror that Lacks the necessary to bring it storyter.

Directed by Justin Tipping from A Screenplay He Co-Wrote with Skip Bronkie and Zak Akers, Hym has a lot to say the world of football. The obsessive fans that border on Cultish, the disissiveness with which injuries are treated, and the pressures that comes with the great Time (the Movie was initially titled Goatand there are visual nods to actual goats, so you get the picture). If noting Else, the film is a cautery tale about never meeting your heroes. It ‘s shame, then, that these elements are treated haphazardly at best.

Marlon Wayans Delivers A Performance That Elevates Him

Though it isn’t enough to make the film a Worthwhile Watch

Marlon Wayans Carries Most of the Movie’s Weight As Isaiah White, A Quarterback who’s consider the goat, and who’s thinking about retiring. For the Most of the Film, Wayans’ Performance Feels As Though it Belongs in A Better Movie, One that Matches the Tension and Intensity Hym SEEMS TO THINK IT’S GIVING. The actor is all forced smiles and barely control Emotion, walking a Fine line between passionate and unhinged. The Way He Treats Cameron Wade (Tyriq Withers), A Rising Quarterback who’s Set to Replace Isaiah and All He’s AccomPlished, Is Ruthless, Though he’s Believes he’ -tughening Him up.

The film is far away at Isaiah’s Compound, isolated from the rest of the world, so that the focus is on football. Once Cameron, who recently sufferered a traumatic brain injury, ENERS AND HIS PHONE IS CONFISCATED, THINGS REALLY WEIRD, YET Hym Can’t Maintain Its. Its Torn Between Being an Eerie Thriller and A Psychological Horror. The latter is heavily underutilized, undercutting the disconcerting elements of the story to a degree that we can’t take it as serial as it wants us to.

The horror aspects have so much potential, but they were wasted on a story that refuses to propriely engage with its themes. At Times Subtle and at oters too straiforward, the film leads to an ending that seams simultaneously inevitable and ill-concoved. It struggles to Hold Attention, Event As Cameron’s Time at the Compound Gets Increasingly Bizarre.

The material doesn’t help withrs’ Cameron, whose passifity and lack of Curiosity make it hard to become attached to him or what the film’s attempting to imply with his character. ITH’S ONLY IN A FEW MOMENTS WITHERS ‘Performance Rises to the Occoation, and That’s Primaryily in the first 20 minutes or SO, we have plays Cameron as with Make US Wonder and Football. It ‘sayoff that that is near the end of the film, and one that would have been better served as its foundation.

Otherwise, The Film Tells US That Cameron Cares About His Family, But We Barely See. We Learn His Father (Don Benjamin) Taught Him Everything He Knows About Football, But That Relationship Gets One Moment OnScreen. Further Interrogation of Cameron and His Life Wold have made the horror more unsettling. What we are instead is a tendid film that doesn’t entirery Qualify as a psychological horror.

At Several Points, Whether Its Cameron Being Being Beat or Helmets Colliding on the Field, the Film Employs an X-Ray Effect to underscore the impact of football on the body and mind; Howver, it is used so of offend that it is ineffective. Moments are meant to be scary come off as a bit gimmicky.

At a little over an hour and a half, Hym is so Imbalanced in Its Execution that it feeds much longer. Tipping and his co-writers have a lot of great ideas and though-provoking commentary about the way we treat athletes, but the lead-up to an adulttedly explosive doesn’t land. Wayans and the Score SEEM to be doing sis of the tension-BUILDING. It ‘s shame the rest of the film Couldn’t rise to the Same Level.

Release Date

September 18, 2025

Directory

Justin Tipping

Wriers

Justin Tipping, Zack ars, Skip Bronchie

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  Tyri Withers

  Benny Mathis

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  Marlon Wayans

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