GlenjaminX

This movie is a drifting, babbling mess that the writers were likely reworking during shooting. This misguided disaster of a film took me three days to get half way through as I was so bored I'd lose track of the story. I finally started fast-forwarding in an effort to understand where the story was headed. I believe there was a message about the role of technology in the lives of people, but it was lost in the terribly written storyline. I think they could have done a better job with a script that focused on a single plot line. I'd rather go to the dentist any day than watch such weak, misguided drivel.

I watched this movie because of Julia Garner. I'd seen her in several films and liked her work. However, I have to say she surprised me in this one.

I think Garner did a fine job relaying the angst of a new employee navigating a crappy job with unfriendly coworkers and a nasty boss who is also a serial philanderer, but you stay because there's the promise of a golden future. I've had jobs like that. In fact, millions of people have jobs like that today.

Where everything falls apart for me is that this move scored a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. I sat through the entire movie waiting for something to happen and it never did. That's when I realized this film was essentially a treatise on the struggle of late Millennials and Generation Z in a corporate America that doesn't recognize their unique gifts and talents.

Here's a newsflash: Nobody cares about your life, life isn't fair, karma doesn't exist, and the bad guy wins all the time. Do you remember the former president of the United States? Do you think that guy will ever face any consequences for what he did?

Pretend you never saw this movie. If you hate your job so much that you quit after five weeks, you're going to have a tough life. Find a job, work hard, keep you head down, never go to HR (they are there for management), and maybe, someday, you'll get a break. If you're talented, hardworking and likeable, you will move up or on to other opportunities. Garbage like this movie, reinforced by mindless critics who live in an alternate reality, does nothing but tell impressionable people that work and life are hopeless and there's nothing you can do except be miserable. Don't buy in to it.

I watched a recent episode and saw experience and intuition lose out to child. The show is built around the father who is obviously a talented artisan, but deferring (when you know you're right) to your amateurish daughter because she has an "eye for design" is always a mistake. Haven't we seen enough of kids working for their parents? I hope the producers wake up because this thing is headed for cancellation.