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exclusively for people that watched The Truman Show and were like “man, i wish there were more matthew mcconaughey drunkenly yelling about tuna and iraq and sucking on anne hathaway’s chin”... luckily that’s me. a few screams and line deliveries in here that would make nic cage proud (“GIMME THE ROD!”) scattered throughout this very pro-rum, pro-butt, pro-murder, hoot-and-holler cinema gem. as pure a piece of nonsense screenwriting as one could hope for in their life. loved it.

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Lmaooooooooooooo.

To be fair, I definitely liked this, as it is incredibly watchable and baffling from the first scene to the last, but I'm still trying to figure out exactly why. It really has no reason to exist, but each and every decision, whether by narrative or character or visual, feels so particular and pored over. It's equal to someone playing darts in a dive-bar, and they miss the board *every fucking time*, and not only does it *not* hit the board, but each dart flies in a different direction so gracefully and forcefully that it must've been on purpose, right? Well, it wasn't. No way. Nohow. But it's that dedication and unaware innocence towards the exorbitant stupidity of Serenity that creates a new good-bad classic, one which features (among many wonderful, wonderful things) a man named The Rules and Diane Lane as a sexy, senile cat lady.

"Steer clear Big Tuna, head for open waters."

Every time I think about how the fish is named Justice my brain breaks all over again.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

My favorite movie is “Serenity” starring Matthew McConaughey and Jason Clarke

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

it has a character literally called The Rules, I wasn't going to hate this (review at the Atlantic)

spent the runtime thinking about that great episode of true detective where mcconaughey says to that woman “if you get the opportunity you should probably kill yourself”. not so much as a reminder of his acting talent, more as you know, a suggestion for myself

theres a reason matthew mcconaughey and anne hathaway work in interstellar but dont here in serenity and its because you have to put them in space as theyre too powerful a duo for earth

I couldn’t explain this movie to you if I tried, daddy.

The idea that this is the next great bad movie, or even that it is remarkably nuts, is completely absurd, if only because the big twist you've heard is so wild is also painfully uncool and boring. Like, it could have gone anywhere, and you went with this? Still, the first half is textbook 90's thriller histrionics, and McC is in mega mode.

Lmao

Just as batshit as you’ve heard it is

Weird mix of genres. It starts off crime, noir, thriller, mixes in tiny bit family drama, themes of domestic abuse and then mixes in fantasy. There are times that genres can mix and create a good movie. But this one didn't really work out that way. Part of the beginning of the movie showed a few scenes of naked people from the back making it feel more adult. This more mature feeling went along with the gritty kind of crime theme that it was developing. The changes later in the story went another way. They went into the fantasy, dreamlike, wishfull type of plot and to me it didn't fit. What captured my attention originally was the gritty crime plot. Once it changed I almost lost interest. There are still some entertaining scenes but overall I wasn't impressed. 5.5/10

not only will i never get this time back, i’ll never rest well with the fact that someone was validated for this screenplay

Jason, you can have my ass at a discounted rate of $8

Not as bad as I remember it being. I do think that the plot twist was cool, but it should have been more of the movie. There's two different movies in one here and both have good ideas but they didn't really belong together. It was more entertaining than I remembered and the film is shot really well, but this could have been so much more.

SERENITY NOW!

3/10

Als Vorabinformation: ich habe vorher bereits gewusst, dass der Film mit einem „angeblich“ niemals zu erahnenden Twist um die Ecke kommen soll und war dementsprechend auf der Lauer.
Mit diesem Wissen im Hinterkopf hat mich das Prinzip der Wendung nach einer knappen Stunde nicht komplett überrascht, diese war aber dennoch über die Laufzeit hinweg ganz ordentlich vorbereitet und durch eine interessante Grundatmosphäre aufgebaut worden.

Von diesem Handlungsverlauf abgesehen bietet der surreal angehauchte Thriller einige nette Bilder, eine schöne Karibik-Location und ordentliche Starpower, wenngleich McConaughey, Hathaway und Clarke allesamt schon deutlich stärkere Auftritte hingelegt haben. Wirkliche Spannung oder emotionale Bindung zu den Figuren entsteht allerdings eher selten. 

Serenity bietet außer dem angesprochenen Twist letztlich also eher viel heiße Luft, bleibt aber aufgrund der oben beschriebenen positiven Eigenschaften immer noch angenehm konsumierbar und ist definitiv kein Film wie jeder andere.

A great movie to trick your friends into watching.

Truly one of the dumbest final acts of a movie. Exquisite.

probably the first time I was tempted to turn off a movie after a plot twist

Não precisa ser um gênio do TI pra criar um jogo que a principal motivação do personagem é capturar o peixe atum.

Tolle Landschaft, spielt auf Mauritius, mysteriös und Psycho, ohne viel Gewalt