The Guilty- 90 % Uninterrupted Minutes Of Jake Gyllenhaal’s Face, Do You Dare?

3 min readOct 4, 2021

This film takes place entirely within your mind. It doesn’t show you anything, but you see everything

Okay, this movie is special in its own way, one being a thriller movie another being Jake Gyllenhaal in the movie. I mean Jake Gyllenhaal is the only guy who goes the extra mile to justify these roles. With roles like Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain, Source Code, Zodiac, Enemy I wonder why he has to complicate things. Anyway, the film is 100% Gyllenhaal. The entire plot takes place over the phone, from Gyllenhaal’s perspective, which means the guilt is 90 percent uninterrupted minutes of Jake Gyllenhaal’s face. All we get to hear are the voices on the phone & Jake responding to those voices in his own way. He delivers the type of performance that does not allow you to doze off, so you’re always paying attention to him.

The film is a heavy & stressful watch, but seeing a contrived high-drama movie can be a workout. Forehead vein throbbing, breather, cough, beads of sweat accumulating, close up shots of an eye, mouth, You can pull this one off without nodding off.

This film serves as a complement to Jake Gyllenhaal screaming and breaking things in the universe. It is an adaptation of a foreign film (Danish Thriller) of the same name. The original film was intense & suspenseful, whereas this one is annoying, but that doesn’t mean it’s not good.

Talking about the film, the whole plot is Jake Gyllenhaal who is characterized as a disgraced cop trying to undo his past mistakes over the course of one supremely stressful night, is as tense, thrilling and surprisingly emotional as it gets. It’s like a one-man show yet it’s shot on a single location, cramming you inside his workplace and immersing you in the character’s thinking and how difficult his job can be.

This film proves that storytelling matters other than fancy locations or VFX. You truly come to care about the character. The Guilty has the potential to be one of Netflix’s best films of the season.

Streaming on Netflix from October 1st