Profile

THE GIST: Hoping to land a stable gig, a British journalist goes undercover to infiltrate the Islamic State's online recruiting network that specializes in entrapping young girls, especially Europeans, to join their cause in the Middle East. Slowly, she starts feeling the allure of joining the fascinating man she's talking to.

Profile is a good thriller, albeit based on a very simple premise, and is another example of a movie entirely staged on electronic screens (similar to Unfriended and Unfriended: Dark Web), which sounds weird but works surprisingly well.

Valene Kane and Shazad Latif (a good actor whom I first discovered on the TV series Star Trek: Discovery) excellently play their game of cat and mouse.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Definitely recommended for the story, which is based on factual events, the curiosity of the format, and the tragic themes explored.

Grade: 7