The dialogue is 40% Scrum jargon. Characters say things like, “Let’s escalate this impediment to the Release Train Engineer” with zero irony. Non-Agile viewers will be lost. Also, the subplot about the Product Owner secretly being a chatbot is never explained.
C. Reeves Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3/5) – ”Enlightening, exhausting, and unexpectedly unsettling.” psm movie
It’s not really a movie. It’s a two-hour interactive exam disguised as cinema. Halfway through, the film pauses and asks you to identify which of three responses is not a valid way to handle a conflict between developers. Fail twice, and the movie restarts from the beginning. Genius or sadistic? Both. The dialogue is 40% Scrum jargon
The film’s second act is a brilliant slow-burn. A 12-minute unbroken shot of a Sprint Planning meeting—where no one agrees on what “done” means—is genuinely tense. You’ll squirm. The cinematography uses gray cubicles and flickering JIRA boards to create a dystopian mood. The final scene, where Maya facilitates a “safe-to-fail” experiment that accidentally deletes the production database, is darkly hilarious. Also, the subplot about the Product Owner secretly