Buckster69
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After 'End Game' essentially drew a line under 'Phase 1' any subsequent movie featuring those characters, really is just a frippery, or worse, a cash grab.
This movie underlines that sentiment to the extreme.
Yes, fun and colourful but doesn't really add much, if anything,
This movie underlines that sentiment to the extreme.
Yes, fun and colourful but doesn't really add much, if anything,
The set-up lured you in. A flawed prodigal son and a mysterious priest arrive on a small isolated island community where each character plays out their kitchen sink lives. Fans of Stephen King will instantly recognise the signs that small town America is about to be subverted in a maelstrom of self-inflicted horror fuelled by past regrets and secrets. A town where evil can quietly breed.
Flanagan initially does well, but I feel that the format of 7 hour-long (sometimes a little longer) episodes allowed too much scope for navel gazing and existential monologuing by some of the more uninteresting characters, to the point where it drifted into almost becoming a showreel for Flanagan's wife, Kate Siegel.
Hamish Linklater carries the entire show. A standout performance as the priest. Ruminative, brilliantly jittery and conflicted (of course). I do hope that he lands more roles off the back of this turn, he had great timing.
I think that maybe a cut to 3-4 episodes could have condensed this into a modern horror classic, akin to 1979's Salem's Lot (David Soul). The plot tension was often killed off by overly long conversations, particularly in the last episode where a 10 minute monologue by Siegel's character just took the wind out of the climatic ending.
Enjoyable but needed a good editor.
Flanagan initially does well, but I feel that the format of 7 hour-long (sometimes a little longer) episodes allowed too much scope for navel gazing and existential monologuing by some of the more uninteresting characters, to the point where it drifted into almost becoming a showreel for Flanagan's wife, Kate Siegel.
Hamish Linklater carries the entire show. A standout performance as the priest. Ruminative, brilliantly jittery and conflicted (of course). I do hope that he lands more roles off the back of this turn, he had great timing.
I think that maybe a cut to 3-4 episodes could have condensed this into a modern horror classic, akin to 1979's Salem's Lot (David Soul). The plot tension was often killed off by overly long conversations, particularly in the last episode where a 10 minute monologue by Siegel's character just took the wind out of the climatic ending.
Enjoyable but needed a good editor.
We watched this primarily because Tilda Swinton (or her makeover) had been featured quite heavily in the UK press.
The movie is essentially a poor, lewd US version of Bridget Jones without the style or character performances.
The only really difference from the aforementioned movie is the main character is portrayed as a hot bedding laddette with a morbid fear of commitment. Hardly a unique premise but this simplistic plot is strung out way too long and by the end you just want the whole thing to be over, having learned nothing and provided one or two laughs from the experience.
Amy Schumer is neither kooky enough to be Goldie Hawn or outrageous enough to be the late great Joan Rivers. Also, if this is the best you can do on your first effort.........
The movie is essentially a poor, lewd US version of Bridget Jones without the style or character performances.
The only really difference from the aforementioned movie is the main character is portrayed as a hot bedding laddette with a morbid fear of commitment. Hardly a unique premise but this simplistic plot is strung out way too long and by the end you just want the whole thing to be over, having learned nothing and provided one or two laughs from the experience.
Amy Schumer is neither kooky enough to be Goldie Hawn or outrageous enough to be the late great Joan Rivers. Also, if this is the best you can do on your first effort.........