Kinds of Kindness

Weird, awkward, oldschool Lanthimos is back! His latest movies were extremely commercial, and now he's back to his roots with this low budget anthology of a movie. Three extremely crazy episodes that feel like Black Mirror episodes, "Kinds of Kindness" is a movie that explores human relationships with a significant other, with a boss and employer, different power dynamics of each relationship and the power that sex has in our lives and in the formation of our relationships. It's an absurd movie, very weird, and you vibe along with it realising that nothing is gonna ever make total sense and that's fine. I liked it a lot but it surely is not meant for a wide audience.

I fell asleep watching this film which is extremely rare for me. I was so glad once it was over and the credits rolled.

I am a fan of weird films and I loved "Poor Things", "The Lobster" and other movies Lanthimos has made. This one however was completely random and terribly boring - no consistent storyline, just random scenes playing on screen.

The first third of the movie was the strongest part but even this section of the movie was slow and even though I liked the message it wasn't as thought provoking as it could have been. The script was simply lacking.

Don't watch it in a cinema - watch it at home as second screen content while you do something more interesting.

Giving this an 6/10 rating

Yorgos Lanthimos is one of those directors you are going to love or hate. 'Poor Things' was a really great film, earlier this year, garnered many awards, but this - 'Kinds of Kindness' is one that that I will not want to watch again, is just about good.

The film is split into three tales, all are good, well acted, good lines, it's all almost good, but for the actual characters them selfs, I just could not like any of them, these are people who I would not want to spend any time with at all, very unsettling humans, maybe that is the point? If so, it worked, but still, even with the real great laugh out loud moments, I still felt cold on this film.

It's not total crap, but in my mind, not Lanthimos' best. So 6/10 is the most I can give it, Could use trimming on time too.

We all know that Yorgos Lanthimos can make great movies, and he has proven this several times in the past. While his films are often uniquely creative and explore fascinating themes, they are also vastly different from the majority of other movies and therefore not for everyone. The best example might be Kinds of Kindness, which is so bizarre and radically different from most other films that it's almost unbearable.

There might be people who enjoy this type of movie, and I can certainly appreciate its unique perspective, which results in a one-of-a-kind piece with many intriguing elements. However, the overall experience was not entertaining for me at all. The production is undeniably stellar, featuring a stacked cast, all of whom deliver great performances.

The movie is structured as an anthology, split into three stories, with the main actors appearing in each story as different characters. While this approach has been done before, it remains a risky choice because it can easily confuse the audience or weaken the overall narrative. The themes explored are interesting and yet, paradoxically, not engaging at all. Each of the three unique, distinctive stories has an intriguing premise, but none of them truly deliver.

In the end, not one of the three stories was satisfying, and all concluded rather uneventfully. While there may be viewers who genuinely enjoy this movie, it is certainly not for everyone. If the first 30 minutes don't appeal to you, it's unlikely the rest will either. Additionally, there was no justification for this film to be stretched to almost three hours, as much of it could have been cut. Ultimately, the final result felt boring, pretentious, and frustrating. [5,1/10]

Kinds of Kindness is divided into three stories with the same cast. A high level of absurdity and unpredictability mixed with some mystery make for a funny quirky thriller at first. Jesse Plemons excels at making this quirkiness work to the benefit of the movie.

Then the first chapter ends and turns into the second, shuffling things around, which already begins to demand some tolerance and patience from the viewer. Random things are inserted for shock value that amuse at first but then become to seem pretentious.

By the third chapter, the movie has overindulged in random ideas that are appear intended to impress without clear direction. At this point it's just absurdity for the sake of absurdity, which comes across as an underestimation of the critical viewer.

All in all, I enjoyed the first part, and think Plemons did great, but ultimately believe we could've picked a better movie, and intend to stay away from films by this particular director in the future.