"I'm not a Squidward."
This purposely lo-fi grindhouse-looking Black sci-fi comedy from Netflix nails its retro stylings, right down to the cigarette burns. Starting off seemingly shakily with deliberately flat scenes of drug-dealer Fontaine's everyday life (John Boyega), the story gets shaken up when he is shot but reappears unharmed the next day, and a series of events sees him him team up with a hooker (Teyonah Parris) and a pimp (Jamie Foxx) to investigate, discover his own corpse in a secret underground lab and uncover a growing secret government conspiracy. The quality of actors involved means all is not lost, but the pacing is relentlessly slow, the limited material is stretched rather thinly, and often it feels like two films are competing and never quite gel - a low-rent Wayan Brothers-style comedy and a gritty old-fashioned sci-fi conspiracy thriller - making for an uneven and not very satisfying movie..
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