"Parasite" is a polished effort, tightly scripted with scenes seamlessly merging into one another, despite the occasional bit of overacting. The movie might not match "Shoplifters," but Bong's effort is South Korea's most impressive production in quite some time.
Pine is a likeable leading man but on-screen chemistry with Knightley is lukewarm and Branagh downplays his villain when some wild overacting might have injected levity into the deadly serious proceedings.
But on the big screen, it turns out to be little more than an overacting showcase from a cast that's possibly getting much more out of the experience than the audience.
However, Hani strongly denied the claims and said that the only deleted scenes were those (some) of Nidal's, where he was overacting and that didn't go with the high standards the film is aiming to achieve.
FOR the past few months, documentary makers have been stating the obvious, soap stars have been developing unusual mannerisms and drama extras have been happily overacting, safe in the knowledge that only the most eagle-eyed viewer would notice.