An tired old man going home in a trip done thousands of times before.
A misterious woman with a curious offer.
A mistery to be solved...and little time to do it.
And a cast of very talented actors.
...what could go wrong? You will slowly, but surely, find the answer to that question.
Because this movie is a slow burner, but unfortunately it is the audience the one that goes on fire.
The first 20 minutes of the movie are great. Beautiful cinematics. Great acting. Everything is totally belieavable. Then you get to the main plot, and it is there where things start going awry, but in a way so subtle that only afterwards you realize what has really happened.
A totally belieavable beginning lead us to a mistery that already requests us to suspend misbeief, but just a little. So we do. We anticipate great things and are willing to pay the price of overlooking a bit of fantasy here and there.
And here we are, half way through the movie, knowing that the movie is about, and having to provide more and more concessions to fantasy in order to keep your viewing experience. How could the bad guys know this or that? Well...because of...reasons? You want to stay focus on the plot, and wish for a comeback of the great and realistic beginning of the movie. But that is nothing more than wishful thinking, because this train is already on its way to hell.
As we pass the first hour mark our old and tired hero is no longer. He has gone from a very believable character to a clown making unnecesary populist remarks to evil bankers to...darkman? Taken? How old is that guy again?
By the time to arrive at the last 30 minutes everything in the movie is out of control. The plot disintegrates as the characters nonsensically switch from love to hate acording to the movie requirements. Everything goes 80s sci-fi in front of your eyes, fire and explosions and you could not care less.
The last 10 minutes of the movie is an attempt to go back to the old times when everything used to make sense, but by then the audience knows how all will end. And sadly, the movie delivers. By the time it is all said and done you know you need to leave the theater, you don't even care for the credits, but yet you stay and are rewarded with an epilogue that is the cheesy culmination of all this mess. I cannot tell whether this is injury to the insult we witness during the second half of the movie, or the director really felt the need of closure. I have no idea.
So why 5 stars? Because the premise is good, and the first half is enjoyable. It is a movie that had the right people, the right money, the right plot, so it deserves those points. A big pity that this commuter could not make it to its destination.
...what could go wrong? You will slowly, but surely, find the answer to that question.
Because this movie is a slow burner, but unfortunately it is the audience the one that goes on fire.
The first 20 minutes of the movie are great. Beautiful cinematics. Great acting. Everything is totally belieavable. Then you get to the main plot, and it is there where things start going awry, but in a way so subtle that only afterwards you realize what has really happened.
A totally belieavable beginning lead us to a mistery that already requests us to suspend misbeief, but just a little. So we do. We anticipate great things and are willing to pay the price of overlooking a bit of fantasy here and there.
And here we are, half way through the movie, knowing that the movie is about, and having to provide more and more concessions to fantasy in order to keep your viewing experience. How could the bad guys know this or that? Well...because of...reasons? You want to stay focus on the plot, and wish for a comeback of the great and realistic beginning of the movie. But that is nothing more than wishful thinking, because this train is already on its way to hell.
As we pass the first hour mark our old and tired hero is no longer. He has gone from a very believable character to a clown making unnecesary populist remarks to evil bankers to...darkman? Taken? How old is that guy again?
By the time to arrive at the last 30 minutes everything in the movie is out of control. The plot disintegrates as the characters nonsensically switch from love to hate acording to the movie requirements. Everything goes 80s sci-fi in front of your eyes, fire and explosions and you could not care less.
The last 10 minutes of the movie is an attempt to go back to the old times when everything used to make sense, but by then the audience knows how all will end. And sadly, the movie delivers. By the time it is all said and done you know you need to leave the theater, you don't even care for the credits, but yet you stay and are rewarded with an epilogue that is the cheesy culmination of all this mess. I cannot tell whether this is injury to the insult we witness during the second half of the movie, or the director really felt the need of closure. I have no idea.
So why 5 stars? Because the premise is good, and the first half is enjoyable. It is a movie that had the right people, the right money, the right plot, so it deserves those points. A big pity that this commuter could not make it to its destination.