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It's (Fleur Fortune's) directorial debut feature film and that's a strong indication of a filmmaker who knows exactly what they want to say and how to say it, a debut that makes you eager to see what comes next.

I was amazed by how she used her cinematic tools to create a rich, unsettling piece of art.

Each element was used to build a stressful disturbing atmosphere that burns slowly utill you think you've hit the climax, then it pushes further, until another climax hits, that constant escalation kept me anxious, curious, and fully invested.

And the score builds a sense of unease that never quite lets you breathe.

But it's not only (Fleur) who was in top form, the cast also delivered a masterclass performance.

The three leads were in top form, but (Alicia Vikander) in particular is magnetic, she completely owns the screen.

Beneath the surface, The Assessment carries deeper layers, it's more than a dystopian story about state control over reproduction, it reflects real, current anxieties.

The film forced me to keep thinking about autonomy, the erosion of personal freedom , the pressure to meet certain standards and who gets to decide what makes someone "fit" to belong in society.

As the perspective is everything in reviewing movies I should explain myself from MCU movies, I'm an 80% MCU fan and 20% DCU fan, on the other hand, I'm a 60% DC characters fan and 40% Marvel characters fan, and of course "Black Widow" isn't in my top 10 favorite Marvel characters list -which is doesn't really exist but if I did it someday I'd never put Black Widow in it- So you should know that I'm not the number one Black Widow fan and so does the majority of people because she has never been introduced as a main character on the silver screen before.

So if this was not an MCU movie, I wouldn't watch it

But let put that beside and let's talk cinema.

The action was lousy, and I blame whoever put Cate Shortland in this project, she has never made action movies before and that's her first time to be on a blockbuster movie, and unfortunately, she failed to give us a single good action sequence.

There's a scene, Scarlett Johansson's stunt double face is fully clear and much more stupid things.

Editing was trying to hide the actresses' laziness and the director's lack of experience by fast cutting the scenes to hide stunt doubles faces but that made the action sequences experience even worse, I almost had a headache.

The movie's CGI is cheap, it really can harm your eyes, in 2021 and they did that how come? Hands down it's one of the worst.

I saw a lot of people talking about Florence Pugh's performance, and that surprised me, not if she was bad or something but you guys saw better performance than David Harbour's? He stole the show He's the best thing in the movie, his comedy scenes killed me, honestly without him I'd rate the movie 4/10 Scarlett Johansson's performance is Scarlett doing Black Widow, not Scarlett doing Nicole from "Marriage Story": A lot of superhero poses and 0% effort of doing action scenes without a stunt double.

Rachel Weisz's performance was just meh.

In any movie -especially a superhero one- I'd love to see a good villain like Thanos or Loki and so on.

In this movie, I saw a bad-written one, he has absolutely no motive for his actions, I know he's a metaphor for masculinity and how a lot of men shutting females' mouths and control their actions, but the metaphor wasn't enough, I wished for more, I wished for a better character with real motive.

In the end, it's not a bad movie, but it shall have been a better one.

"Home is just a word? or is it something you carry within you?" I'd love to start my review with this quote, it sends all the messages the movie has tried to send. The movie talks about a woman who has lost her home, husband, job and everything actually and she decided to go on a journey to live the nomad life and the story goes along to see her trials for redemption, redemption from loneliness. And the movie pointed to very important topics like capitalism and how it makes people waste their whole life doing something and literally die without doing anything they wanted to do and not enjoy a second from their lives.

I really loved how the music started and ended in a specific time, I tried to figure out what is the right expression to tell and I ended up with "The music was talking" it was speaking Fern's emotions and asking questions then answering at the end of the scene.

An essay won't be enough for me to tell you how much I loved the cinematography. actually seeing the sky of the American West is enough, I felt the beauty of the nature of the American West from my home in Cairo.

Frances McDormand's performance was a real A class one, she is stunning -as always- and it won't be a surprise if she won her third Oscars with this performance. and by talking about the performances, Are those people actors or they're just real persons who live this lifestyle I would be surprised if I know they're actors, and if they're then Chapeau to the casting choices they mastered their roles.

But there was something a little bit confusing for me, the movie was slow-paced and that's not what confused me, I was confused with the rapid development, there were some scenes that are just going the camera with Fern's walks or something then cut then Fern in another place with different people. and that's all I hated about this movie.