I am not sura sura if Director-Writer Justin Tipping (Kicks) and his co-writers zack ars and skip bronchie of the Black List Screenplay Hym Were attempting A Bold Satire on the Brutality of Football and the Game’s Cold-Hearted View to Safety of It Its Players, but Certainly the Bones of A Piercing Bly-Blows Sport Aree. The problem is that tipping-USING LOTS OF QUICK CUTS, BOOMING MUSIC CUES, FLASHING X-RYS OF INJURIES AND OCCULT-STYLE VOODOO HORROR TROPES-FAILS TO RUN ANY NUMBERS ON THE SCORBARD.
Him’s Marketing Campaign Suggests Something Akin to A Religious Experience With Its Wannabe Star Quarterback Posing as Some Sort of Christ-On-Cross-like in the Ads with the Tagline, “GREATNESS DECRIFICES.” Of Wold Add, “Movies Demand Coherence.” This one has none, or the satirical bite it demands – which probably what are attracted jordan peele to want to produce it and use his name to sell it. AFTER ALL, THIS IS THE GUY WHO WON AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY OSCAR FOR ONE OF THE ALL-TIME GREAT HORRROR SATIRE, Get out. Sorry, but i can’t get get in to what the filmmakers were think in doing this Mishmash of football and fright. And i Seriously double the nfl will be endorsing it anytime soon.
Plotwise, we are introded to all-time great Isaiah White (Marlon Wayans), An Eight-Time Champion Star Quarterback for the San Antonio Saviors. He is at a place in his winding-down career where his contract is up, and so is his prime, witnessed by a brutal leg injury show in Vivid Closeup. But for Whatever Reason, he is Ready to turn on a dime and coach his potential successor, the Ever-Promising Cameron Cade (Tyriq Withers), WHO Idolized Him Sine a Kid and Unfortunately has beCome the vicious head injury (read: cte) Halloween-Y Character Who Appears Out of Nowhere to Lower the Boom During a Practice.
Career ending? Nope, not if thu ha His Way. He invites cade to his truly weird compound in the texas desert, where you have to pass through a bunch of zombie-like characters protesting your arrival before you get to the Main Event.
It is here that whites promises to turn things around for cade, putting Him through a “training” weeks oh so Weird and involves football-throwing madness, blood transfusions, a scary encounter with one of this of bizarro creeps and a complete a compile while totally naked in front of Everyone, where he gets measured for success, as it were. If that is not enough, Wayans – Doing His Best Ruth Gordon Circa Rosemary’s baby – Takes it all to another level. Apparently a deal has been made with the devil, a la tab hunter wanting one great baseball season in Damn yankees.
If only this has had the smarts to make all this work as the horror movie it aspires to be, a la zach cregger’s Barbarian and Weapons. Mostly Tipping Just Throws a Lot of Genre Scare Tactics that Just Lay there with Impact. Pharying Best here is Wayans, Playing It Straight and Exibling Strong Authority and A Bit of Mystery. He’s in Another Movie. Withers, who spends most of time in a state of undress, Certainly has the right physique to be believable as a prospect (he was a college player Himself), but his roles physicality and not much Else. I was amused by julia fox playing white’s influencer wife WHO HAS BEEN MADE UP TO LOOK LIKE OUT OF Hocus Pocus, As well as Tim Heidecker’s Agglesive AGENT WHO KEEPS URGING HIS CLIENT TO GLONG WITH ALL THIS STRANESS. Comic Jim Jeffries Lands Some Much-Needed Laughs As The Team Doctor.
Producers are Pelele, Win Rosenfeld, Ian Cooper and Jamal Watson.
Title: Hym
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Release Date: September 19, 2025
Director: Justin Tipping
Screenwriters: Justin Tipping, Zack ars, Skip Bronchie
Cast: Marlon Wayans, Tyri Withers, Julia Fox, Tim Heidecker, Jim Jeffries, Maurice Greene
Rating: R
TIME RUNNING: 1 HR 36 MINS
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