I know! I know! Social media is evil. This movie will point that out. Okay, allow me to put forth an unpopular view. It is not evil! Without social media we would all believe the government. We'd believe the mad scientist known as Dr. Fauci. We would all have been poisoned by the jab. We'd actually think Lester Holt was a smart man. We'd have elected Hillary Clinton. Nope! I'm not playing. You sheep can parrot the "social media is evil" propaganda, but not me. Give me X (Twitter) any day over Fox News, CNN, or ABC. Okay, our feature today is the social-media-is-evil film, 2011's "Panic Button," directed by Chris Crow.
Four lucky Londoners have won! Yep, a social media network has selected them for an all expense paid vacation to New York City on board a luxury charter jet. Single-mother Jo (Scarlett Alice Johnson) is sad because she will have to leave her daughter with her mom. She doesn't know this but shortly after she heads to the airport, her mom is murdered and her daughter is abducted. The other babe in the group is Gwen (Elen Rhys), a slut-wannabe. The hunk Max (Jack Gordon) is there, but proves to be a bit of a mystery. Then the creepy Dave (Michael Jibson) rounds up the quartet. He looks like a pervert... and is! The airplane takes off and the four are given champagne and asked to play an on-line game for expensive prizes.
The games begin. The shock also begins as each is asked to answer questions about things they are not proud of. Yep, all have social media profiles that are hardly true, Jo is a manipulative alcoholic, Gwen is a virgin, David like vicious porn, and Max...well, he may not be Max. Uh oh, when the quartet try lying about who they are or what they have done, one of their on-line "friends" is murdered and the murders are all broadcast on livestream. More lies result in family members being tortured and cut-up into little pieces. Now the on-line master of the game has a secret task for each of the contestants. Yep, you can probably guess what those tasks are. Uh oh...Jo figures out the chartered jet is not heading to New York City.
Who is controlling this game and what does that entity have against these four schmucks? With Jo's mom murdered, what fate will her daughter succumb to? Just where is this jet going? Oh, the ending? Yep, then the true horror arrives as it will be a most unsettling one. So all you who hate social media, go ahead and keep believing the NFL is pure sport and good for this country while all us on social media have understood for the past 20 years that it is rigged. See "Panic Button" and ask yourself if social media is the true culprit.
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