Ricky Gervais can be really hit and miss nowadays. From The Office to Extras, he was at top form and made consistently great stuff. His Live Stand-Up Comedies are still funny for the most part too. After that though, his track record varies as I wasn't a huge fan of Life's Too Short and found Derek pretty crappy, but After Life was kind of decent. Is he on a decline? Maybe? It's hard to say.
With Special Correspondence, Ricky Gervais wrote and directed this for Netflix and unfortunately it's mostly a miss. Any small handful of jokes that worked are filled with lots of misses and the story gets weaker as it progresses, so it becomes kind of poor by the end. I'm also starting to think Gervais is only good at himself. I didn't buy he was a geek who liked comics and video games at all.
Eric Bana and Vera Farmiga fare better in their performances, but it still can't save the weak writing which has big plot holes and could have been much better. That being said, it was a pretty easy watch and I've seen worse things from Netflix. I was kind of hoping this was going to be a comeback for Gervais, but sadly this is one of his very worst projects.
4/10.
With Special Correspondence, Ricky Gervais wrote and directed this for Netflix and unfortunately it's mostly a miss. Any small handful of jokes that worked are filled with lots of misses and the story gets weaker as it progresses, so it becomes kind of poor by the end. I'm also starting to think Gervais is only good at himself. I didn't buy he was a geek who liked comics and video games at all.
Eric Bana and Vera Farmiga fare better in their performances, but it still can't save the weak writing which has big plot holes and could have been much better. That being said, it was a pretty easy watch and I've seen worse things from Netflix. I was kind of hoping this was going to be a comeback for Gervais, but sadly this is one of his very worst projects.
4/10.