Maybe my biggest disappointment of the year.
What happened to the Eggers that built real dread in The Witch and didn’t rely so heavily on jumpscares?
So much attention was paid to historical accuracy and costuming, but with an exposition-laden (and, frankly, untrusting of the audience) script, lackluster performances, shockingly conventional cinematography, and — maybe the movie’s greatest sin — a bland and overexposed Orlok, what good is all of the lipstick on this pig?
Trap 2 already?
Sort of a Spider-Man (2002) vibe to this one: startup filmmaker gets their first blank check and decides to stretch their cinematography muscles a bit.
Better than Smile, if only because it doesn’t have an extremely annoying lead actor AND is masquerading a bit less as something high-brow.
An absolute trashfire of a movie. Anyone giving this credit for being “original” hasn’t seen Joker (which is itself a copy of a copy) or any YA romances. Not to mention that this is one of the worst-scripted and edited movies I have seen from a major studio in the last five years; there are edits and major character beats that come across as nonsensical. There are a ton of temporal issues; I get the sense that a significant amount…
Truly awful. I rented this from a Redbox the year it came out; I was 14 or 15 and vividly remember realizing in the first ten minutes that the movie’s timeline made no sense. The main character was a baby in the early 70s, during the events of the classic TCM, and we meet back up with her in the present (2013) where she’s… in her early twenties? This might seem like an odd thing to spend my entire review…
