Follow (AKA: Juegos de Seducción): Movie Review

Staid, unoriginal and uninteresting.

Diego Boneta has returned to his native Mexico in this Spanish-language seduction thriller. Titled Follow in English, the Spanish title Juegos de Seducción translates to “Seduction Games” which at least makes sense in addition to being a much better title. But this movie also doesn’t concern itself with what is good, or better, or makes sense. The plotline of a handsome con artist who scams wealthy women but may have found his match is about as lazy as they come.		2025 Directed by: Gonzalo Tobal Screenplay by: Hipatia Argüero Mendoza, and Adriana Pelusi Starring: Diego Boneta, Martha Higareda
I still think Diego Boneta is a better actor than he gets credit for, but this role doesn’t do him any favours. At the beginning he has multiple different personas for each woman he’s trying to seduce, but other than styling his hair differently, they are all the same. He also plays nice way better than he plays dangerous, which I presume is why they cast him here since he does need to come across as nice, but it’s then jarring when he has to switch to dangerous. Sebastian’s match comes in the form of a car accident when a young woman Carolina (Martha Higareda) runs into his car, but is scared and does not want to go through insurance. Sebastian likes her so he agrees; she’s hot so naturally their relationship turns sexual almost immediately, and of course she has a rich, evil husband. All of this only makes sense because of how lazy this movie is, nothing about this very common genre is new or fresh or elevated. I’m also pretty sure that there is no screenplay, it feels like it started with somebody asking AI to make a movie about a handsome con artist who tries to help the wrong woman, and this is exactly what the computer spit out. Most transitions from scene to scene don’t make much sense but they also don’t need to since you can easily follow this movie by only watching every 10th minute. Convenient then since it’s on streaming on Prime Video, but that’s also not an excuse to make such a lazy movie. Every single turn is either not throught out at all, or it’s completely unoriginal, or both. There’s a distinct lack of much needed comedy – it either could have elevated the movie, or given the characters some more flavour or made things more interesting in general. Instead it’s a very dramatic thriller with an over-wrought score which does not fit the very staid, unoriginal and uninteresting direction the movie takes. This ends up being a very boring exercise with uninteresting characters and predictable twists.

Or Something Similar But Different:

  Hit Man (2024) - A devilishly smart crowd-pleaser where a fake hit man meets his match with a cunning woman.