lukasntz

This movie could have been a newspaper article that you'd read in like 6 minutes. There's really nothing that requires a scenic implementation. The whole dialogue feels like a business meeting and, while that is the core scene of it all, it drags over a runtime of nearly two hours.

I like the aesthetic and the attention to detail when making the time period come to life, and I couldn't say there would be any bad performances in the movie. Just nothing groundbreaking either. It's also a weird decision to only show Michael Jordan from behind. And it hs like five endings, everytime you think it ends there's another scene.

Finally, I personally hate "where are they now"-text screens at the end of such movies with a burning passion, but as anything else, that's subjective.

This is not a bad movie. It's just very bland.

I went in expecting a thriller, and I came out of the cinema confused about what I've gotten. This movie can't really decide what it wants to be and feels a bit all over the place while also being somehow unimaginative.

Aside from it's unquestioned obessision with muscular, trained bodies, nothing really gets followed through. It wants to be a character study, but the characters sadly don't have a lot of depth to them. And that's not the actor's fault, they're doing the most with what they're given. But most of the characters are just set dressing and the main characters motivations feel obscure rather than mysterious, the homophobia is turned up to a hundred while at the same time never really being understandable in its exaggaration and it all leads nowhere.

Also, the music is terrible. Almost everything sounds like a cheap porn-Soundtrack but apparently wants to be taken serious.

There are far better gay movies out there, go watch them instead. This isn't really interesting, romantic, or thrilling (in any sense). It feels like, 'Free Fall' (2013 by Stephan Lacant), but bad. It lacks anything that made that movie a classic, from the characters to the visual style. This just looks like any mediocre gay movie that is satisfied with being gay as it's selling point, all the while it could have been great because the potential was there. The initial setting is new and interesting, the team of characters could be explored way further, even the rawness of the location has a lot of visual potential. But alas, the movie just always takes the easiest road, leading to mediocrity.

There are three interesting scenes, and the rest you've probably already seen very similarly elsewhere.

This is just horrible. As someone who doesn't know the original movie (yet) I can not talk about how it differs from it, but gosh is this bad. The Pinocchio voice actor only knows one mode of speaking, which us "child shreaking" and it's getting annoying really fast, the CGI looks weird and is overused to the point of even a cat being animated (and everything feeling weirdly weightless), there are added plot elements that lead nowhere... I don't know who needs this film, but I can't see anyone enjoying it. It's not even fun-bad, it's just bad.

There are way too much nods to the old songs, but at the same time, none of them really get to be numbers.

Also they added a "maybe we'll get an oscar for this"-Song, that is cute but totally misplaced, and Pinocchio gets a girlfriend because child needs to be straight.

Yeah, I don't know who needs this.