franklydude's reviews

A 2016 movie about a young model who is taken advantage of (a little) by some of the people she meets in Paris... I agree with the previous reviewer; it's well made, good story line, well acted, giving a balanced picture of the modelling industry, and one girl's story of how things can go wrong, & survival. There was another 2016 movie about a model, "Neon Demon", and this was 100 times more worthwhile, and probably cost a lot less to make! The audio & visual impact of Neon Demon was awesome, but it was a hollow waste of time, and the publicity machine made it look attractive. If "The Model" was treated the same way, it would still have been good, but it didn't need the gloss or powerful audio track to make it work. Some of the dialogue is in Danish, but you don't really need subtitles to understand what's being said.

Pretentious, thin, shallow, disjointed, lacking any strong cohesive plot & story line.... The so called "controversial" elements are only visited fleetingly and there's not the slightest element of eroticism to arouse the living, let alone the dead!

Visually stunning with a "thumping" sound track, but nothing that hadn't been done before, & not really enough of a reason to breathe life in to this somewhat dead turkey of a movie.... The posters make this movie look awesome, & it does "look" awesome, but a hyped up movie needs much more! Big green tomato!

It's good to see really high quality (Audio and Video) movies being made without resort to multi-million dollar CGI & big budget special effects and sets. Shame their is nothing to make this into a story worth telling. You might as well just put it on a "loop" hang it on a wall & call it multi-media "art"

It isn't a testament to the "art" of the movie maker though...

This has less value than the box it comes in.... An abysmal "plot" and an abysmal attempt to transform real human action into a cartoon style graphic novel movie, or was it the other way around? The CGI effects are so bad, they do nothing for the movie or the actors. Even a bad plot can be lived with if the CGI is good enough. I can appreciate actors have a hard time when being "placed" into a CGI rich movie, but I sincerely doubt the lead actress Milla Jovovich would have bothered to make this film if she'd have known and understood what a pile of tosh it was going to turn out to be. It's not worth renting, let alone buying... (maybe I should have waited 'till I've sold my copy on ebay)....