Kind of a mess! There are a number of threads introduced only to be dropped immediately, and the characters are all pretty one note. With how often this was pushed back I'm hoping this was just cut to ribbons by producers and a director's cut down the line will do all these threads and characters justice.
Pattinson's delivery of "Gas? Do you know gas?" might be the highlight of his career.
"And he went to an English boarding school?"
"Not just any boarding school. He went to Eton, the boarding school."
"Right…"
Just a small sample of the absolute dreck on display here. Add in a heavy dose of the characters repeating what they plan on doing scene-after-scene for the benefit of the presumed phone-addled viewer and you've got a real bag of dog doo-doo here.
If this is Ritchie's retort to Tarantino making the one British guy in Basterds a complete doofus, he's only proved Tarantino's point.
Caught this in IMAX and boy-howdy was that a fun time. Just as large-scaled and stylish as the first one about without being bogged down with as much exposition. The cast is all batting 1000 here, but special props to Chalamet for selling his reedy ass as the most commanding presence in the room by the movie's end.
I'd recommend David Ehrlich's review, which criticises the film not selling Paul's emotional arc and high drama in any way that matches…
One of the greatest films of all time is about an Irish moron collecting alimony and I think that's beautiful.
