Trey Edward Shults' new film "Hurry Up Tomorrow" is part of a vast multimedia project that trip-hop chanteuse Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye has been constructing since January 2025, when he released a concept album of the same name. The film seems to sport a narrative that has had been extrapolated from the album by co-screenwriters Shults, Tesfaye, and Reza Fahim, although it clearly aims to be a dreamy, hallucinatory opera of sorts, telling its story through outsize emotional beats. And on the surface, there are certainly a lot of emotional outpourings. There are tears, screams, and nightmares. Stylistically, there even appears to be an attempt to peek into the Weeknd's beak inner darkness. 

But all the dreamy electronica on the soundtrack can't cover the fact that "Hurry Up Tomorrow" is dull, mediocre, plodding nonsense. It's bad, guys. Really, really bad. The film doesn't so much capture the Weeknd's complex soul, as...