If you criticize the police apparatus but have one of the cops be a well intentioned good guy and the other one be easily interpreted as cool then you're unfortunately still copaganda.
Unfortunately though, this was still a great movie. Like just a super entertaining watch, peak of the dad movie genre. The first half is a consistently hilarious set up carried by the truly incredible and deservedly iconic Denzel performance and then it turns into an incredibly thrilling crime…
This is one where I have many thoughts and I'm struggling to make them coherent.
First unfortunately I gotta get the negatives out: the dialogue is often painfully exposition-y in a way that makes it impossible to forget you're watching a movie, the main couple is a bit too dumb like I get the point is parenting is impossible especially when the standards are impossible but godamn they were shooting like 5% and that's a frustrating stretch that lessens both…
I'm actually pissed. Why the fuck do people praise this at all? I just wasted an hour and a half of my life because people call this a classic. I like Lynch, I'm ok with absurd and unexplained and abstract art house stuff. This is just boring. There's not a single thing that interested me in this movie. It's slow as hell and even visually uninteresting and it makes actually 0 fucking sense past the most basic thematic premise. Like I need at least something to hold on to while watching, and this had nothing. An utter waste of time.
Just a blast of a movie. Really really funny. Thrilling and emotional as well tho. And also a fascinating psychological study. And obviously anti capitalist, anti bigotry, anti imperialist, anti hierarchy anti Trump. And actually ends unambiguously positive which is rare in movies like this. Very well made in every single way, great music, great set and costume designs, and most of all just incredible and campy performances. Both the Pattinson roles, Ackie, and even Ruffalo despite bordering on caricature,…
