JoshtheGiant

Anybody else seen it? I thought this was one of the best comedies of the year. Strong performances all around, particularly from the lead Craig Roberts. Also nice supporting work from Sally Hawkins and Noah Taylor. The script is delightful and the direction is surprisingly stylish, both the work of Richard Ayoade, who you might remember as Moss in the IT Crowd. Possibly the best debut direction of the year, at least thus far. The soundtrack is also quite strong, and entirely original. It consists of strong melodic acoustic songs by Alex Turner, best known as the lead singer of the British band the Arctic Monkeys. If any film should be getting buzz for the Best Original Song Oscar this year it's Submarine.

8/10

I was personally highly disappointed with the narrative. The screenplay seemed to betray the strong of of Affleck, forgetting to let the character in Ford's head. Ford is psychotic, and therefore a unreliable narrator. It isn't until the final scene that this is even remotely shown. As it is the script only comes off as shallow.

Still Affleck gives a fine performance, and we probably have Hudson's best work in almost a decade, or at least since The Skeleton Key. Alba brings very little to the role, but her performance isn't necessarily bad either. It just is.

The Killer Inside Me isn't necessarily a terrible film, and it not a film to avoid by means, but it certainly isn't anything to rush out to see. Part's of it are certainly worth while, most notably the scenes towards the middle of the film.

Just like all of Kaufman's previous film it had a strong underlying plot that was actually deceptively simple. It had all the things that have made Kaufman's previous films so brilliant, but unfortunately this time it fell apart. Maybe it was because Kaufman himself was the director this time, and was simply not up to the task, or because Synecdoche, New York simply has too much of what made his previous films so great. It has two much whimsy and metaphors and too simple of a basis. Synecdoche, New York is the worst kind of mess. One that just misses brilliance. One that actually has a lot of brilliant in it, but squanders it.