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Synopsis

Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi (John Boyega), a promising young NYC public defender whose idealism is beginning to crack under the daily injustices of the very justice system he's trying to make right. Doubting all he has worked for and seeing signs of the universe collapsing all around him, he is pulled into a dangerous high-stakes drug heist by an unpredictable former client (Olivia Cooke) in an effort to beat the broken system at its own game.

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An idealistic public defender (John Boyega) gets drawn into a drug heist. This convoluted exercise in moral relativism succeeds at wasting almost all of the considerable talent involved while attempting to make too many statements and also sound smart/deep/literary. Some interesting photography and Boyega's self-deprecating charm can't save this overblown, under-thought adaptation from a novel. Also, why are Olivia's Cooke's nipples visible in every shot? Once is okay, but every time is a gimmick, like this entire film.

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Metacritic

40
Aug 18, 2021

Not even John Boyega’s solid performance can salvage Naked Singularity, a thinly sketched, disappointingly generic crime thriller.

Metacritic review by J. Kim Murphy
J. Kim Murphy
IGN
25
Aug 9, 2021

The concept might have worked well on paper. But on screen, at least how Chase Palmer has directed and co-scripted it, those clashing elements exert weak gravitational pull.

Metacritic review by Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
San Francisco Chronicle
42
Aug 3, 2021

Naked Singularity is the work of an untested filmmaker who knows how to streamline but lacks the chutzpah to swing for the fences.

David Ehrlich
IndieWire