I only posted positive reviews... until this.
This is so bad. It takes a lot to make me not appreciate a film but this just made me miserable from start to finish. I almost quit halfway thru because I just wanted the ride to end so badly.
-There were problems with the writing.
-Problems with the depiction of the psychology.
-Unbelievable characters and plot points.
-Lots of unlikable characters.
-Story was utterly lacking in suspense, dragged and I literally figured out the entire plot by 1/3 of the way thru.
-The thugs couldn't have been more goonish. Not in a stylistic choice kind of way; in a B movie kind of way. I've seen far better B movies, to be honest.
-Many of the positive reviews reference all of these great classics but I can't see them in this except in a handful of very derivative ways.
I would have expected this to come from some cut-rate director. It just seems thoroughly unskilled. I think the reverence for some of the names involved in this influenced some of the positive reviews. I simply can't imagine that many people truly found this gripping or interesting.
-There were problems with the writing.
-Problems with the depiction of the psychology.
-Unbelievable characters and plot points.
-Lots of unlikable characters.
-Story was utterly lacking in suspense, dragged and I literally figured out the entire plot by 1/3 of the way thru.
-The thugs couldn't have been more goonish. Not in a stylistic choice kind of way; in a B movie kind of way. I've seen far better B movies, to be honest.
-Many of the positive reviews reference all of these great classics but I can't see them in this except in a handful of very derivative ways.
I would have expected this to come from some cut-rate director. It just seems thoroughly unskilled. I think the reverence for some of the names involved in this influenced some of the positive reviews. I simply can't imagine that many people truly found this gripping or interesting.
- Snikic
- Feb 16, 2022