Film Review

Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) — immensely promising but undercooked and embarrassing

An insomniac musician encounters a mysterious stranger, leading to a journey that challenges everything he knows about himself.

I remember seeing the trailer for Trey Edward Shults’s new film, Hurry Up Tomorrow, in the theatre. Unlike most trailers nowadays, this one didn’t spoil much of anything, nor did it present a synopsis of its narrative. As a matter of fact, it didn’t say much at all; rather, the trailer presented itself with minimal narrative wealth and interlaced abstract visuals consisting of colour and lights in between.

The trailer did its job and did it well, influencing me to look up information on the movie in my own time. I discovered the following: “A musician plagued by insomnia is on the verge of a mental breakdown, and one night during one of their concerts, they meet a strange, mysterious fan within his crowd of cheering fans who pulls him into a psychological odyssey, unravelling the very core of his existence.”