An idea that can have moments to shine and dazzle, but falls flat easily, Hurry Up Tomorrow presents a world of an artist falling into a place of darkness out of disconnect. There are a lot of lighting and cinematic moments in this film that push the limits of tolerance. The lights thriving back and forth are irresistible, although, this also makes the film seem out of place. The artist The Weeknd is the main character, and sadly, this is another mediocre project for him. After his series The Idol, the approaches of Hurry Up Tomorrow still do not do much justice to his talent.

 The Weeknd is on the road doing all kinds of tours in different cities and countries. His attitude is all over the place. It shifts a ton though when the attention of a girl comes to his mind. She is Anima (played by Jenna Ortega). The Weeknd finds himself distracted on his tour and his assistant Lee (played by Barry Keoghan) tries to encourage him to keep on going. With all the stress and turmoil boiling to a burning point, Hurry Up Tomorrow chooses to go in the direction of a strange angle.

 Hurry Up Tomorrow presents itself in a pattern where The Weeknd is the main character and story. His mind is in a boggle. The structure though is presented in a form that only finds itself to feel irritatingly over compelling. It tries to hard to grow its psychological side by repeated moments of strobe lights. That tactic is one that had my head spinning, but also my mind asking myself, how much do I have to endure? 

 It is a ride where building resilience is important. It is also one where there is no clear point. However, the connection of The Weeknd and Anima is the strong bond of Hurry Up Tomorrow.The dynamic between The Weeknd and Lee also holds things together well. The Weeknd is trying to navigate what his heart wants among all the mental clashing of his own world. Overall, though, the story just continues in the direction of boredom. As far as the visual film goes though, the cinematics are amazing. It is just the use of looping in a storyline to grasp the amazing moments that do not work.

 If I could explain this film any better, I would say that its choice to look at the stress of fame does not sell me. It fuels itself to try and have that God moment through the focus of the characterizations in The Weeknd.  It tries to be a separate idea or conjunction to feel like something that the world has not seen before, when overall, it struggles to maintain itself resulting in a weird blur.

Hurry Up Tomorrow is one of the least compelling stories I have seen. I was sold on the insomniac world it created, but on the usage of the foundation I was not. Overall, the structure quality it tries to achieve just does not fit. This is one I had to suffer through. One-and-a-half out of four stars.