Todo En Todas Partes Al Mismo Tiempo

Some quick impressions after coming out of the theater: This movie is highly overrated. It has some interesting ideas, but a lot of repetition and is often dragging and boring.

It is basically a bombardment of your senses, which doesn't leave a good impression/taste.

Too much stupid fight sequences (poor story). Once over, you do not wonder about its "deep" meanings (if you manage to watch it until the end).

The commanding room is kind of copy/paste of The Matrix.

Not a good choice for an intelligent viewer.

A waste of time, money and senses... 5/10 max.

A24 put some great stuff out but this isn't one of them, or I just wasn't in the mood to watch it.

It felt like it should be a series, they cram so much stuff in and it has a slightly budget feel. The leads are excellent, I especially liked the guy from Wayne's World (Casandra's dad, James Hong) and the elements of humour he brings to the film. His parts are about the only ones where the film sits and breaths, the rest is a convoluted mess.

The bombastic fighting was fine as a Kung Fu movie, it feels very much like a Jackie Chan flick and fights have good tension, but then they introduce ridiculous elements like middle aged ladies wrestling, reality warping shoot outs and go overboard with crude outlandish skits as a medium for transporting between realities and amp it up throughout the movie. Kudos for trying to make it work but it just doesn't land and comes across like a terrible Rick and Morty episode. Too eager to be too many things all at once.

I rate it a 5, which it shouldn't be as it's very well produced, original and clearly a lot of talent went into the movie. But the finished product is just punishing to watch.

Starting with what I did enjoy about this movie.

1. The setting of this movie was indeed a more accurate representation of an Asian American household. The family dynamics sounds about right. I like that Asians are getting more spotlight.

2. The concept/theme of this movie is rather novel and therefore interesting. Although I think it could have been played out much more sophisticatedly.

3. The parent-child relationship is well portrayed. The perceived lack of validation from parents felt by the child, the poorly communicated love of the parent, the process of gaining awareness and emotional growth for both the parent and child is inspiring.

Things I didn't like 1. It is a very bizarre movie, you could even say chaotic. It's as if they tried to combine every single meaningless detail together and gave up filtering out what's actually worth or necessary to the main plot. Tried too hard to make it funny/original/emotional/relatable that it ends up being neither of those things very well.

2. The movie is also unnecessarily long.

Those two points combined makes this movie just a long, confusing, and sometimes boring mess. The novelty makes it watchable/bearable, but to me, it's nothing more than that.

Firstly I should say I thought the actors did put in some very good performances and I can see why they were nominated although as to whether they deserved to beat some of their competitors is another matter.

I have to say I found this film to be tedious and almost unenjoyable to watch. It feels like a film made for the TikTok generation - no overall coherence with nuggets of scenes rammed together. Is this a film I would ever bother watching again - absolutely not.

Yes it is different - in much the same way The Artist was (and who talks about that film anymore?) but that doesn't make it good. It aims for a profound message whilst its style is overwhelmingly superficial. It's a film with little artistic merit or dare I say beauty (I am talking about the scenes and cinematography here not the actors) and it definitely did not move me except to pray it was going to finish.

In short it barely ticks the boxes of what I'd consider to be essential criteria for a great movie. Maybe this is the first of a new wave of this type of film and I am not getting it but when it had finished I felt pretty much nothing.

Having seen countless raving reviews about this movie both on IMDb, and even more so on Twitter, I thought "damn, I have to go see this ASAP". I went in expecting something incredible, movie of the year standard, but wow was I disappointed.

Literally 75% of the movie is fight scenes, like okay it was cool at the start but 2 hours in and still?? 'Everything Everywhere' is perfect for people with a short attention span because there's always something ridiculous going on. I understood what they were trying to do with the plot but honestly nothing stuck, it just felt shallow.

Don't get me wrong it's not a bad film, but it's nowhere near these 10/10 reviews that's being advertised.