Letterboxd — Your life in film

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

boring at worst, predictable at best. clearly a dump-it-in-netflix kind of movie. some good-looking shots sprinkled throughout, mainly when it comes to nature, but still mainly uninteresting. the lead performance belongs in a better movie.

since it doesn't have enough thematic nuance or narrative innovation to set itself apart from other average horror movies, run rabbit run made the decision to shine with an impeccable (and unbearably cold) cinematography, two magnificent lead performances and unmatched sophistication while it goes about reading through its tropey and yet sharp screenplay.

while jodie foster & kelly mcgillis shine with muddied personalities and their dance around the badly-aged supporting performances, there's so much unexplored potential in here; though the first act is strong and bold, the film takes a much more comfortable (for itself) tone after the first thirty minutes. between weak directing (and score, and cinematography) decisions and a subpar graphic sexual assault scene, i can't help but wonder what a filmmaker like villenueve would do with this material.

Not really worthy it, just skip to the "CINDY! THIS IS A SKELETON! THIS IS BONES!" scene.

Now, you tell me why this generic ass romantic action straight-to-streaming movie is 2 hours long. Who the hell made THAT decision?

God, this movie does not earn half of its runtime. "Directed by Peter Jackson" ... Yeah, we can tell. 14-year-old Saoirse Ronan was already a star in the making, despite the subpar writing, and the casting of Stanley Tucci as a moustache creep is disturbingly brilliant. Whoever made the choice to cast Wahlberg should be haunted in their sleep, though.

satisfies all of my necessities: pretty boys suffering and rich people suffering

ok ok i think now i get what makes people like this

tonally inconsistent and thematically insane but musically amazing

damn, that bloke really looks like andrew garfield, huh?

its incredible how little plot this 3 hour movie manages to have