Ben Affleck’s new heist movie looks like an even trippier Tenet

As the trailer for Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming psychological thriller Hypnoticwhich was released on Monday ahead of the film’s next theatrical premiere could be described in a single sentence, it would be: What if Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Healing and Christopher Nolan’s Start had a baby? And what if William Fichtner (Drive angry, The dark knight) had evil psychic powers?

The film stars Ben Affleck as Daniel Rourke, a police detective struggling with the kidnapping of his daughter. When Rourke is called in to investigate a series of mysterious bank robberies where the perpetrators all seem to have been put under hypnotic suggestion, he inadvertently discovers a clandestine government program linked to a sinister murderous criminal (William Fichtner) with the ability to deceive people. . observations of time and space. With the help of a gifted psychic (Alice Braga), Rourke races to catch the true culprit before he can do any more evil, but can he still be sure whose side he’s on? Does he also have a daughter? Is this movie real?

If anything, the trailer looks appropriately trippy, explosive, and exciting. William Fichtner plays a cross between Healing‘s Kunio Mamiya and Jessica JonesKilgrave is worth the price of admission alone, but combine that with hardboiled Ben Affleck performance and Robert Rodriguez-style action sequences, and Hypnotic has arguably the makings of one of this year’s biggest surprises. But it could also all be an illusion. We’ll have to see for ourselves when Hypnotic premieres in theaters on May 12.