{"id":11916,"date":"2025-05-17T16:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T20:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=11916"},"modified":"2025-06-01T18:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T22:16:06","slug":"hurry-up-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2025\/05\/17\/hurry-up-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurry Up Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/strong> (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lionsgate\/Suspense-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 105 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language throughout, drug use, some bloody violence, brief nudity)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Trey Edward Shults\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Trey Edward Shults, Abel Tesfaye and Reza Fahim\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Abel Tesfaye and Daniel Lopatin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Chayse Irwin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 16, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: The Weeknd (as Abel Tesfaye), Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan, Riley Keough (voice).<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: \u00bd *<\/p>\n

\u00a0I can\u2019t remember the last time I awarded a movie the dreaded \u201cNO STARS!\u201d rating. That\u2019s reserved for films that are either utterly detestable or devoid of any artistic merit. The psychological thriller Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/strong> came extremely close to being slapped with my lowest possible rating. The only thing that saves it from that fate is Jenna Ortega. The star of Wednesday (season 2 hits Netflix in August) is one of the most intriguing actresses working in film at the moment. She\u2019s unconventional in all the right ways. She has incredible range, but she\u2019s at her best in darker films like X, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Death of a Unicorn. She gives it her all in Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/strong>, but there\u2019s nothing in the world capable of salvaging this pretentious mess of a movie.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I like to stop and chat with staff members after I see a movie at my local AMC. I share my thoughts about the film. I was only too glad to express my opinion of Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/strong>. I was asked what it was about. I didn\u2019t have an answer. I didn\u2019t even know what it was about while I was watching it. I sat there in a stupor trying to figure out where director Trey Edward Shults (It Comes at Night) was going with it. After a while, I didn\u2019t care anymore. I just wanted it to be over so I could have my life back. It\u2019s a reasonable request, is it not?<\/p>\n

\u00a0To be fair, it probably helps to be a fan of the movie\u2019s star Abel Tesfaye, more popularly known as alt R&B singer The Weeknd. I have no familiarity with this artist beyond his mere existence. I\u2019m told that Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/strong> is a companion piece to his album of the same name. Obviously, I\u2019ve never listened to it. Why would I? His music is not in my wheelhouse. The movie doesn\u2019t make me any more likely to check it out anytime soon or EVER!<\/p>\n

\u00a0I\u2019m not impressed with Tesfaye as a musician and I\u2019m even less impressed with his acting. He plays a version of himself in Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/strong> and botches it completely. Fame hasn\u2019t been kind to him. He\u2019s self-destructive, hedonistic and depressed. His already fragile mental state isn\u2019t helped any by a recent break-up with a girlfriend who leaves him a voice mail telling him what a horrible person he is. The stress finally gets to him and he loses his voice leaving him unable to perform. Tell me that\u2019s not some kind of metaphor.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Tesfaye gets involved with a young woman (Ortega) with issues. When we first meet her, she\u2019s pouring gasoline all over somebody\u2019s house in the middle of nowhere. She sets it on fire and takes off in a truck. We\u2019re never told who the house belongs to or why she did what she did. For about an hour, it\u2019s unclear what she has to do with anything. Eventually, she attends one of his concerts, the very one where he loses his voice. They meet and leave together. They party for a while before going to a hotel. They spend the night together. The next morning is when things get weird(er).<\/p>\n

\u00a0Ortega\u2019s character, who\u2019s never named in the movie but listed as \u201cAnima\u201d in the credits, goes full-on psycho and pulls a Misery on her idol. She ties him to the bed and forces him to watch her perform some of his songs while explaining what she thinks they mean. She demands that he be honest with her and address with toxic codependency with women (a recurring motif in his songs). This is when Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/strong> finally comes to something resembling life, but it doesn\u2019t really matter by this point. I had long since passed the point of giving a f***.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/strong> is nothing more than a vanity project for The Weeknd. It\u2019s easily the worst one since Graffiti Bridge, the faux Purple Rain sequel Prince inflicted on empty theaters around the country in 1990.\u00a0 At least you could laugh at that one. Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/strong> is absolutely unwatchable, especially when Ortega\u2019s not present. I could not stand this version of Tesfaye. He\u2019s a tortured artist whose angst is pure torture for everybody looking on. This includes his manager Lee (Keoghan, Saltburn), the only other significant character in the film. He tries to keep Tesfaye focused on career, performing even when doctors advise against it. In other words, he\u2019s an a**hole. He\u2019s an even bigger one than his client.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/strong> is pointless, superficial and incoherent. It makes no sense. Too many things go unexplained. Themes go unexplored. The movie ultimately goes nowhere. It\u2019s badly written, directed and acted. Like he did (successfully) in Waves, Stults tries to impress viewers with shifting aspect ratios. It does nothing but disorient audiences instead. The cinematography is shockingly lifeless. The concert scenes lack energy or any sense of visual razzle-dazzle. The whole movie is a muddle.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Words alone cannot express how much I hate Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/strong>. It\u2019s yet another slice of stupidity passing itself off as art. I\u2019m sure Tesfaye thought he was making something relevant. In actuality, it\u2019s nothing more than a testament to his ego. This movie brims with hubris and arrogance. It\u2019s almost like he and the director don\u2019t care if anybody else gets it. I\u2019m not ashamed to admit I didn\u2019t get it. I know it\u2019s saying something about musical artists losing their voices and finding them again. Beyond that, I don\u2019t know. Moreover, I don\u2019t care.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lionsgate\/Suspense-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 105 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language throughout, drug use, some bloody violence, brief nudity)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Trey Edward Shults\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Trey Edward Shults, Abel Tesfaye and Reza Fahim\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Abel Tesfaye and Daniel Lopatin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Chayse Irwin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 16, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: The Weeknd (as Abel Tesfaye), Jenna Ortega, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-suspense-thrillers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Hurry-Up-Tomorrow-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11998,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11916\/revisions\/11998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}