Well Done! (2023) User Reviews

Underrated - Not made for most Americans.

[freakierasafreak · 9/10 · 20 April 2024]

Such a wonderful Movie that is criminally underrated Malkovich is giving as usual an outstanding performance.

The other actors are doing a solid performance aswell.

Their is some nice synergy between them.

The Dialoges are pretty interesting, it's one of those movies which aims for a higher intellect, while also staying grounded due it's whacky silliness at some points :D

This movie wants you to think about it and not just consume it like the vast hollywood productions nowadays.

I never thought that malkovich would fit so good into the French Comedy aspect.

As someone who grew up with movies from all over the world.

I fully enjoyed this movie, but cannot recommend it for all viewers, since it's a special movie and not your average movie.

If you like French movies give it a try.

If you don't but do like dialoges, give it also a try.

Not very entertaining french comedy

[rubenbe-75128 · 4/10 · 26 December 2023]

Lacks the comedic aspects, includes very empty not likeable characters with strange conversations and has just too many scenes which make no sense, even for a comedy movie in which of course logic is not the main aspect.

First of all I went to see this movie in a german cinema, and since I don't speak french I watched it in german.

So the translation might be part of the problem but surely can't excuse the terrible conversations in this movie.

The characters are often not really interacting with each other, A says something and then B answers but without concidering what A said at all.

My thoughts were constanetly "No-one would say that" and "No-one would act like this in this situation" which maybe would be acceptable in a comedy if it was at least funny but in my opinion it wasn't at all.

I am not a big laugher watching movies anyways, but I don't think i even once smirked while watching.

Simple jokes like one character mispronouncing the main characters name slightly different in every scene was probably the (not very high) highlight.

The movie has some points were it tries to do situational humor mainly through the maincharacter beeing a little bit cheeky but overall it was just not funny.

Which was also suprising because I normally do enjoy a lot of the french comedies even when I watch them in german.

Partly due to the weird conversation I had a problem with the characters in general.

I couldnt connected with, or really like, any of them, they were so unauthentic and weird.

The mood swings and behaviour of the characters were extremly unrealistic and random to me.

And the last point that really upset me was storylining that made no sense.

Yes this is a comedy but I have a hard time overlooking stuff like this, there were just so many logical holes in many scenes, eg. Blake meeting Magnier, the hospital scene, Blake shooting at the attorneys, the break in scene... I am not gonna go further into this but this was so ridicoules for no reason, and not in a funny way.

Concluding, this was a unpleasent cinema experience for me in which I couldn't wait for the movie to end.

The Lack of humor, unrealistic conversations and unlikeable characters made this no fun to watch.

Disappointing Euro comedy.

[thebarriepattison · 16 March 2024]

Gilles Legardinier's Complètement cramé / Well Done! / Mr. Blake at Your Service is a problem. It's a polished big budget A feature with name stars.. It should be an event but the film totally lacks conviction.

Listening to the opening commentary you suddenly realise that that's being delivered in assured French by John Malkovich, quite eclipsing Erich Von Stroheim, Jean Seaberg and the other Hollywood names who set up their tents there down the years. He plays a British (!) businessman of the year, not turning up to collect his award. John instead treasures the memory of the chateau where he proposed to his one true love and the mother of his grown daughter. He jets off to return for a visitor stay he has booked there. However things are not well in the so picturesque French countryside. Widowed chatelaine Fanny Ardent is not making a go of it and pins her hopes on striking it big on mail-in lottery coupons. Housekeeper Émilie Dequenne is taking guest bookings and advertising for staff to deal with them. Confusion lands John anonymous in the spot of English butler.

Everyone has problems. Final demands litter Fanny's desk. Emilie is hiding from a failed liaison with a Michelin Star chef and talking to her cat. Maid Eugénie Anselin is sleeping in the stables rather than tell her family the awful truth. Chess playing gardener Philippe Bas, who takes a shot at John when he thinks he's a burglar, pines for Émilie and has a curious relationship with the estate's hedgehogs.

It's actually quite touching when they all sit down together to one of Émilie's epicure meals, that we never get a good look at. We realise that John's interventions have improved all their lives. I still can't help making an adverse comparison with the much funnier The Devil and Miss Jones, where their incognito rich guy Charles Coburn screws up all his attempts to help.

The revelation comes at the end, when they run up a Xmas tree on the lawn and we realise that what we are watching is a ritzy version of one of those feel good pieces that TV engulfs us with over the holiday season each year. By March it's shortcomings are too obvious. The fact that the whole thing has been re-voiced in studio interior-sound French, though they all lip synch. Impeccably, undermines any remaining ambitions.