This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I’ll preface this by saying there’s nothing wrong with the idea of ‘Promising Young Woman.’ There’s nothing wrong with making films that approach this subject matter. I’d even encourage filmmakers to make films in this vein; it’s largely untested cinematic territory and in the right hands a film like this could be phenomenal. That being said, ‘Promising Young Woman’ is not that film. Not to me, at least. This won’t be a positive review (or a short one, sorry), but…