9/17/2023 0 Comments Serenity movie twist![]() ![]() This week’s question: The movie “ Serenity” is making noise for all the wrong reasons. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.) “It’s an intentional ridiculousness,” she says, noting that director Knight seems to be “entirely in control, though perhaps not in his right mind.”Īside from the elephant-in-the-room of a twist, she notes the film’s cast of awful male characters – “although Dill is supposed to be the good guy, he pulls out after Karen orgasms, announcing that he ‘won'” – as a distinct negative.Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. “It’s so over the top it nearly sinks under the weight of delicious insanity,” remarks IndieWire’s Jude Dry. McConaughey’s Oscar is “now a distant memory”, and Serenity is “what happens when someone with a lot of vision and a minimum of self-awareness stops hearing the word ‘no.'” ‘The McConaissance is definitely over’ (Photo: Aviron Pictures) ‘Jumps the shark so many times it just might hook you’ – IndieWire It’s a “magnificently terrible idea, executed to perfection,” he says, “the best kind of bad movie, bristling with more spectacularly dysfunctional personality than one hundred conveyor-belt CGI bonanzas.” ![]() The critic says the film does at least fall firmly into the ‘so-bad-it’s-good’ camp, urging would-be cinemagoers to “do yourself the kindness of seeing this zeppelin crash of a film before its unceremonious dismissal from theatres.” That’s to say it’s a film that has “been orphaned by a studio with little faith in its earning potential, banished to the post-holiday moviegoing lull, where riskier strains of badness may freely flourish without attracting too much public attention.” “Suddenly we’re trapped in a movie that wants to be more like Interstellar, one that unravels the more you think about it.”Īccording to The Guardian’s Charles Bramesco, Serenity is the very definition of a “January movie”. The actor now does films like Serenity, a “stupefyingly awful film that actors with fewer opportunities would have likely passed on, laughing.”Īnd on the subject of that plot-twist, the critic says it’s the kind that “turns a mere mediocrity into a hoo-boy January stinker that clears out multiplexes faster than rotten meat in a refrigerator.” “Matthew McConaughey’s mid career stretch of ambition that culminated with smart, wily turns in Bernie, Magic Mike, True Detective and Dallas Buyers Club has slackened,” says Joshua Rothkopf. “Top that, anything else in 2019.” ‘Do yourself the kindness of seeing this zeppelin crash of a film before its unceremonious dismissal from theaters’ (Photo: Aviron Pictures) ‘The McConaissance is definitely over’ – Time Out “As video game Baker kills the digital step-father, Patrick picks up a knife in reality to kill the one next door. “Right from the beginning,” she begins, “there is something off about Serenity.”īut it’s the game’s nonsensical and mind-bending – though not necessarily for the right reasons – ending that gets the most attention, “so out of left field, it feels like you have fallen into some drug-fuelled fever dream.” “Do not read on if you want to see the movie,” starts Hoai-Tran Bui’s write-up, “although these spoilers may convince you to actually see this movie.” “A movie that swings wildly for the fences and misses is infinitely more memorable than one that never tries.” ‘The wackiest ending of 2019, and we’re only a month in’ – SlashFilm Though the first hour – “when it’s still trying to hide the fact that it’s a video game” – is a drag, Han “can’t imagine a single other movie coming out this year that will match it for how utterly unbelievable it is.” She admits that while she’s a fan of Steven Knight’s previous work (“Eastern Promises, Locke, and Peaky Blinders are great”), Serenity is “inexplicable”. ![]() ![]() “I have seen this movie, and I still believe almost none of it,” Han says. “It will hardly matter, because it is so categorically ludicrous that you probably won’t believe me.” “I’m about to spoil everything that happens in the movie,” warns Karen Han of Polygon. ![]()
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