When I tell you that I wanted nothing more than to absolutely love this movie, I mean it. Unfortunately I just didn’t.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good movie. I just had very high hopes that I would be great and was let down that it wasn’t.
Let us start with the positives.
Emily Blunt. She is perfect. No other words need to be uttered, just sheer perfection.
The score is wonderful. The upright bass sprinkled throughout keeping the scenes moving with interjections from all other band sections is phenomenal.
I think the Rock was actually quite impressive. He’s got an incredibly complex character to play who goes from periods of complete rage to catatonic states. He also is so unbelievably jacked that it’s impossible not to be in awe. He should be nominated for Best Actor, but I don’t think he will or should win.
Moving on to the negatives…
Honestly there’s just nothing that makes you connect to the characters here. They aren’t particularly relatable, the story doesn’t move you in such a way that you feel compelled to root for them all that much, and their world feels like it’s an alternate universe.
The movie is incredibly raw. Maybe this is what Benny Safdie, who by the way did a surprise intro at my showing which was very cool, was going for. Each scene starts and ends with a feeling that can only be summarized as “What the fuck is going on?”, “Who is experiencing what?”, and “Why am I not connecting with this scene?”
It felt almost like you are just in the room as a fly on the wall for half of the scenes but you are going in and out of an observer role to a role of with deep pure emotion with no fluid transition.
My last comment on elements that I didn’t like is that I think there needed to be more commitment to one direction of the story. The movie has a bunch that it could’ve gone down. It could’ve been a fighting movie, a straightforward biopic, or some sort of drama around a life of fame and struggles with relationships, drugs, and chasing the dragon. I think it tried to do all of these and should’ve committed to one or another.
Thanks for reading along folks. Reply with any of your thoughts :)
When I tell you that I wanted nothing more than to absolutely love this movie, I mean it. Unfortunately I just didn’t.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good movie. I just had very high hopes that I would be great and was let down that it wasn’t.
Let us start with the positives.
Emily Blunt. She is perfect. No other words need to be uttered, just sheer perfection.
The score is wonderful. The upright bass sprinkled throughout keeping the scenes moving with interjections from all other band sections is phenomenal.
I think the Rock was actually quite impressive. He’s got an incredibly complex character to play who goes from periods of complete rage to catatonic states. He also is so unbelievably jacked that it’s impossible not to be in awe. He should be nominated for Best Actor, but I don’t think he will or should win.
Moving on to the negatives…
Honestly there’s just nothing that makes you connect to the characters here. They aren’t particularly relatable, the story doesn’t move you in such a way that you feel compelled to root for them all that much, and their world feels like it’s an alternate universe.
The movie is incredibly raw. Maybe this is what Benny Safdie, who by the way did a surprise intro at my showing which was very cool, was going for. Each scene starts and ends with a feeling that can only be summarized as “What the fuck is going on?”, “Who is experiencing what?”, and “Why am I not connecting with this scene?”
It felt almost like you are just in the room as a fly on the wall for half of the scenes but you are going in and out of an observer role to a role of with deep pure emotion with no fluid transition.
My last comment on elements that I didn’t like is that I think there needed to be more commitment to one direction of the story. The movie has a bunch that it could’ve gone down. It could’ve been a fighting movie, a straightforward biopic, or some sort of drama around a life of fame and struggles with relationships, drugs, and chasing the dragon. I think it tried to do all of these and should’ve committed to one or another.
Thanks for reading along folks. Reply with any of your thoughts :)
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