Y2K (2024) * *

Directed by:  Kyle Mooney

Starring:  Rachel Zegler, Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, Fred Durst, Kyle Mooney

It's apt, and not by design, that I'm reviewing Y2K on the 25th anniversary of New Year's Eve 1999.  The fear, that is covered in this horror thriller, is that all of humanity would collapse because computers and machines weren't adequately adjusted to account for the change from 1999 to 2000.  Planes would fall from the sky, bank accounts would be erased, utilities would cease to function, etc.  I was working an overnight shift on New Year's Eve 1999 and it went without incident.  This movie fantasizes that the change to 2000 brings about machines taking over the Earth and a group of teens led by Rachel Zegler and Jaeden Martell attempt to stop them.

The movie was released earlier this month and I'm getting around to reviewing it.  It's a mostly forgettable film but it has a keen sense of time and place.  I liked seeing dial-up internet, CD's, VHS recorders, and you could still go to a Blockbuster store to rent out your favorite movies on New Year's Eve.  Our heroes attend a party where the machines start killing the guests, and the survivors flee to the woods to plot their next move as planes fall from the sky.  The center of the machines' operation is the local high school.  The only reason I can see why this is so is so the kids won't have to travel far to achieve their objective. 

Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit appears as himself and everyone who comes in contact with him refers to him as "Fred Durst", as if he were Charlie Brown.  It took me a minute to recall from which group Durst came.  Hey, I just referred to him as Durst, which is one more time in the entire Y2K movie.