[tyra banks voice] gone girl, but for the elderly

From the esteemed director of some of the Twilight movies and 2017’s Beauty and the Beast, The Good Liar is a slightly more well-shot and acted version of one of those random BBC TV movies that starts playing around 3 in the afternoon. It’s humdrum for most of the runtime, and I almost fell asleep, but it does get a little delightful in its preposterousness toward the end. I have no idea why it exists or who its target demographic might be, other than Oscar voters looking for an excuse to give Helen Mirren her dues.

"Be careful. It's deeper than it looks."

Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen directed by Bill Condon sounds like a blast. And it's a film with a succinct script. It tries to rise above with some twists, but really it felt bloated and unnecessary. I really wanted to like both of the characters or I hoped it would feature a little more redemption.

Vegan alert:
Red meat pounded

i was the youngest person in the theater by 40 years

Wer dachte, Cats wäre der absolute Tiefpunkt des Jahres 2019 gewesen, tja so kann man sich täuschen ... Interessanterweise wurden diese beiden Vollrohrkrepierer in GB verbrochen. Nach Johnson, Brexit und dem Siegertreppchen bei der Coronaolympiade kann also dem weiteren Verfall einer früheren Weltmacht live und im Zeitraffer beigewohnt werden, diesmal auf kulturellem Gebiet. Mal gucken, wie der neue Film von Guy Ritchie wird, aber ehrlich, große Erwartungen hab ich nicht ...

the ending would be so much better if 139/149 minutes hadn't been extremely slow and ultimately inconsequential.

This was way better than I was expecting. I thought it was just going to be ok but it was great! Ian McKellen & Helen Mirren are unsurprisingly, terrific. This has plenty of twists, couple of them I saw coming but again, this was really good.

Wanted to watch it because I like this kind of thriller film. Watchable, but could have been better. At least good performances by legends Ian McKellen & Helen Mirren

Begeben sie sich mit dem Schwindler Gandalf Graurock und seiner neuen angehenden Liebe Helen Mirren auf Sightseeing Tour durch das Brandenburger Tor und rätseln sie bis zur finalen Auflösung mit, wer der bessere Lügner von den beiden ist.

Very good to see these two titans of the screen together (McKellen and Mirren). The movie does a good job of presenting itself one way and changing that perception a couple times. I thought it was a satisfying ending with accompanying back story.

Loved Ian & Mirren, some fun performances, some choices at the end I disliked though they were well executed choices I disliked

I liked the twist in the end.
What I didn't like was the unnecessary violence against a young, underage girl. That scene was simply too long and I'm not sure why filmmakers choose to include rape scenes like that, stretched and full of movement, as if the audience wouldn't understand without it, even though she clearly states afterwards that he raped her.

The more I watch films, the more rape scenes/rape jokes/rape implications are shown, mentioned, indicated. They are included so often that I seriously ask why then when a woman is raped in real life, society questions it.