rglenton

It seems people must be overly easily impressed giving this 9 or 10. Dont understand the hype. Its messy and just not that engaging. Its well made but its like a dish that smells and looks fantastic but tastes a bit bland. Difficult to say which ingredients are missing, but one thing that struck me from early on is I didnt really like or care about any of the characters. Many of them are just nasty, unlikeable. It couldnt seem.to make its mind up what it wanted to be, and many long scenes were pointless. The action wasnt anywhere near as insane as people say. The chase was good, but Bullett still has the best car chase of all time! It was a mixed bag. Often silly comedic at odd times, which wasnt very funny either. I felt like it has four or five writers all pulling it in different directions of action, thriller, dark humour, and not that great at any of it. It held me, but only just, and it does pick up after about an hour. I think if Id been on my own (my partner had the same review as me after) I may have walked, which I very rarely do I kept thinking it was like a try hard Rob Zombie/Tarantino/Scorcese movie but fell way short. I gave it 5, but its maybe a 6.5 at best.

I like weird, strange and unpredictable films hence some of my favorites are Lynch movies. I generally do not like mainstream stuff so I thought I would enjoy Melancholia. I have never experienced a larger deficit between reviews and the actual experience of a movie. It was similar to observing art critics enthuse about a painting of a red square on a black background. Perhaps I'm a philistine but the film left me feeling cheated and empty. It was so dreadful. I kept waiting for it to hook, enchant, mesmerize or move me. It just bored me to tears. I found that the characters did not involve me one iota and I cared not a jot about any of them. Very, very disappointing.