This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
If there's nothing good about a film it's probably bad, this shouldn't have gone into production until the writer and director got a handle on what the film is trying to be, do filmmakers just show their scripts less and less nowadays? Gerard Butler...plays a cop, Ice Cube's son...plays a thief, they're not compatible just because the film wants them to be.
The film has to be about it convincing you that Butler (Nick) is genuinely tired of being the…
Wasn't engaged by this, but I never really am with Eggers' films, I'm happy to accept he likes crafting types of scenes and I like simple plot beats. I like characters I want to care about, not ciphers. To me the only difference between this and The Northman is that people are bringing their experiences of Nosferatu and Dracula into this and The Northman was just taken as it is.
I've not seen any Nosferatu film, I've not seen Coppola's…
I hated this. Sometimes you just watch a film that has a style which rubs you up the wrong way. It's immediately Wes Anderson visually quirky but doesn't try to establish each of the three central characters or try to create memorable scenes based on their scamming. I'm confused before it's even begun; they steal a package, they deliver a lost watch back to its owner, they get a massage voucher then try to exchange it for personal possessions of…
Maybe in a parallel dimension I like this. It's just kryptonite to me, I can't tolerate it, I might as well spend 2 hours watching the most inane YouTubers who specialise in stupidity to appeal to children with their energy. I don't have anything else to say, i still haven't finished it, I just wanted to say my brain can't cope with it. Maybe others might get some comfort if their brain also rejects it. Some films I can't get…
