I’m never watching this film again. Absolutely disgusting! I get that it’s a satire, and that it wouldn’t achieve what it’s trying to if it was more sedate. But honestly? The incest? The chicken-scene? The dog-shit-scene? I really didn’t need any of these in my life…
I have no idea what to rate this. An interesting yet rather unwelcome experience.
The canon of Yorgos Lanthimos only becomes stranger as he releases more films. Not as obviously satirical as 'The Lobster' or as ridiculous yet "real" as 'The Favourite', 'Poor Things' manages to both engage and entertain, while at the same time being an interesting study in what truly makes us all human.
There are not many action-films (if any at all) that come even close to the Mission: Impossible series in thrill, excitement and quality. This seventh instalment in the franchise is everything one might have hoped for, and still some of the stunts are literally breathtaking. The combination of the fact that Tom Cruise insists on doing all his own stunts with the almost complete lack of CGI, makes the film immeasurably believable and exciting.
To call it “pure action” would…
Funny, entertaining and absorbing, yet also disturbing, disgusting and difficult to understand. Stanley Kubrick uses his incredible creativity to create a world that looks and feels so much like our own, while being thoroughly strange and alien at the same time. The pacing is brilliantly exciting - the plot keeps moving forward, and at no time does one get bored of following the exceptionally interesting main character Alex (who is, by the way, wonderfully acted by Malcolm McDowell) and his…
