On the surface, Abby Russell is a dedicated nurse who you wouldn't hesitate to trust with your own life. Unfortunately, Abby's nurse career is only a cover for her real job: Hunting down cheating men and brutally murdering them. When a younger nurse begins to uncover Abby's secret, Abby is forced into action in order to keep her cause against chauvinistic men a secret. Douglas Aamiokoski's Nurse is a tedious, tiresome, and schizophrenic film that has no idea what it wants to be. Nurse is basically a complete and utter mess that starts out as a subversive woman empowerment story (think Ms. 45) that turns into something that feels like a bad Single White Female ripoff. Tonally the film doesn't know what it wants to be, but its bigger problem is that it simply takes itself way too seriously. Nurse is a very silly story but the film plays it far too straight-faced, as if it actually believes its story is something unique or compelling. All of these problems aside, the most problematic aspect of Nurse is how gratuitously it objectifies its female characters. For a film about woman empowerment it has a ludicrous amount of objectification, taking every chance it can to show off the figure of its two female leads. Nurse is not a film that is scary nor fun, simply being a film that has no idea what it wants to be from both a thematic and tonal perspective.
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June 2023
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