Miasmakoala

Jättiläinen (The Mine) felt a bit like The Big Short without the humour, fast-paced editing and clever exposition pieces.

There was a lot of good. The actors are great and there's fun scenes, mostly everything involving Jani Volanen.

There's an admirable level of restraint in the movie which is not too typical for a majority of Finnish 'big budget' films (one million euros). The movie was shot with a sense of patience. It looked good, the landscape shots were great. The muted colour palette in addition to the soundtrack compliments the melancholic and desperate feeling the main character Jussi (Joonas Saartamo) brings to the film with his performance.

Overall the movie doesn't want to make the issues of the movie a fun, silly spectacle which the aforementioned The Big Short did with its issue. However in the end everything felt somewhat shallow.

The characters' motivations are explored only with the main character and even his scenes are short, mostly him just being tired with his family. There's a buildup to him having an affair, but it doesn't go anywhere. The main 'villain' has no depth, he's simply greedy and wants profit.

The issue itself was left somewhat obscure. I understand that there was corruption but even the inevitable conclusion, environment pollution, had no impact in the film. There's clips from real life news, few shots of muddy lakes and that's it. The details of the corruption involved was the core of the movie and yet it felt shallow as well.

To wrap it up I'll return to The Big Short. After watching that movie I felt like I could, not need to, read the Wikipedia summary of the housing bubble.

After watching Jättiläinen I felt like I really should read the Wikipedia summary to fully understand what it was all about.

I was promised a disgusting level of senseless violence, sex scenes and full frontal nudity. It was a lot tamer (and lamer) than expected.

I enjoyed it but it ended up not doing so much with it's interesting premise. The resolution of the cloning is rather predictable and shallow. There's so much more they could have done with the topics of the film.

The soundtrack was fine and the cinematography was too. Acting was solid. The psychedelic scenes were disappointing. They were short and just pretty average. Nowhere near the level of psychedelia of Midsommar or Climax.

Doubt I'll ever see it again. I felt it was still worth the ticket price.

The film gets to its point in the first few minutes. The rest is more or less Mia Goth acting quirky and weird for almost two hours.

Some parts were really boring. She does a long monologue and I'm pretty sure the fans of the movie already cream over how impressive it was. It was nice until it wasn't. It felt long for the sole sake of being long.

There were parts which were really good, mostly every scene which had gore in it. However those parts were few and far between the scenes where nothing interesting happens. I mean, if I was a big fan of Mia Goth, sure those would be interesting.

Just not my style of film. Probably never going to see it again.