Thursday, January 24, 2019

How to review a bad movie

By Donald Sensing

Do it the way that The Guardian reviewed Serenity, out this month, starring Matthew McConaughey as "a gigolo/fishing boat captain alongside Anne Hathaway in a thrillingly awful thriller with one of the most ill-conceived twists in recent history."

[Writer-producer-director Steven] Knight has successfully smuggled one of the most gobsmackingly ill-conceived twists in recent history into multiplexes nationwide. To reveal it here would rob the film of a measure of its great and terrible power, so suffice it to say that it would be like It’s A Wonderful Life ending with Jimmy Stewart discovering that everyone in Bedford Falls was a robot.
Now that's a movie review! Read the whole thing. 



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