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Based on “Escape from Spiderhead,” a short story in The New Yorker by prolific author George Saunders, on paper “Spiderhead” has all the right ingredients for success. Miles Teller’s frequent collaborator, Joseph Kosinski, directed the Netflix science-fiction thriller, which co-stars Chris Hemsworth. The plot deals with a fascinating and problematic scenario of chemical testing on prisoners. Teller stars as Jeff, an inmate who killed his best friend in a drunk-driving accident, and Hemsworth is Steve, the official supervising the testing program. Jeff ingests chemicals that cause him to act erratically, but he also suspects that something darker is happening at the facility.
The onscreen chemistry between Teller and Hemsworth in “Spiderhead” genuinely shines, but audiences and critics didn’t love the film. One critic, with News.com.au, said that beyond Teller’s character, the roles were thinly written and that the plot struggled to expand on and do service to Saunders’ short story. Teller told Collider that acting like he was under emotion-affecting drugs was “tough, and when I was reading the script, there were certain scenes [that] I was really nervous about doing because, like you said, it’s not coming up organically. There’s nothing that’s leading you to that emotion or anything, so that stuff was tough.”
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