Me when Mahershala Ali showed up: 🥰
Me when Josh Gad showed up: 😡
It's truly insane how two major plot points in this film hinge on (1) a teenage girl saying the same stuff about 9/11 that got Bill Maher taken off ABC and (2) the cops checking someone's IMDB page
This is just a better-directed version of Crash but I do enjoy these types of movies quite a bit. This is the minimum level of good a movie should be. Ray Liotta is insanely good in this. However, I thought the Jim Sturgess/Alice Eve plot was a bit of a joke, trying to remind us that white English speakers suffer from immigration law too... c'mon.
Given that I know how Justin Chon talks in real life, I'm not sure if the heavy Korean accent he was doing was offensive or not.
The murder mystery with the Iranians was pretty stupid and unnecessary, and Harrison's character never seemed to sacrifice enough to even begin to atone for having the world's most evil job.
Marc Isham really ripping into the score with big Thomas Newman vibes, enjoyed that a lot, but also reminded me than Alan Ball would've written a better version of this.
Me when Mahershala Ali showed up: 🥰
Me when Josh Gad showed up: 😡
It's truly insane how two major plot points in this film hinge on (1) a teenage girl saying the same stuff about 9/11 that got Bill Maher taken off ABC and (2) the cops checking someone's IMDB page
This is just a better-directed version of Crash but I do enjoy these types of movies quite a bit. This is the minimum level of good a movie should be. Ray Liotta is insanely good in this. However, I thought the Jim Sturgess/Alice Eve plot was a bit of a joke, trying to remind us that white English speakers suffer from immigration law too... c'mon.
Given that I know how Justin Chon talks in real life, I'm not sure if the heavy Korean accent he was doing was offensive or not.
The murder mystery with the Iranians was pretty stupid and unnecessary, and Harrison's character never seemed to sacrifice enough to even begin to atone for having the world's most evil job.
Marc Isham really ripping into the score with big Thomas Newman vibes, enjoyed that a lot, but also reminded me than Alan Ball would've written a better version of this.