Terrible, terrible film. There really is no getting away from it.
Saw this at the LFF and it was an awful mess, unbelievable dialogue, awful acting, portentous, pretentious, really really poor. I would rank it among the five worst films I've ever seen, I'm afraid.
Yes it is brave and bold in choosing to place a female detective protagonist at the heart of the film, great choice of lead actress in Patricia Clarkson, it does also have a bold visual identity and there is an interesting idea in here. But it tries far to hard to be a Lynchian take on a classic detective story, when it should be focusing on the basics.
Of course, Carol Morley is to be championed. She is a promising, bold British female filmmaker. And I suspect this is why she has garnered a few decent reviews for this film. But it is impossible to deny that this is a significant misstep.
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The Meg
(2018)
Cliched, ridiciculous nonsense. If this got a cinema release, how bad must "straight-to-video" films be?
1 September 2018
This is utterly ridiculous nonsense. Jason Statham sports an accent from I know not where, the plot steals wholesale from various parts of the Jaws story, when it tries to be tongue in cheek it simply misses the target, when it tries to be serious it is far too cliched to be anything but guffaw inducing. It isn't an exaggeration that this film is about an hour and a half too long. What is it's running time? About an hour and a half.
It earns two points for two very specific reasons - 1 point for the only person who seems to understand what nonsense this all is (Rainm Wilson, excellent as ever) and 1 more point to whoever managed to achieve the impossible and got this a cinema release.
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