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johanlefourbe added 1 item to Top 10 worst movies 2023 list

Notes: It had been a few decades since I saw Uma Thurman playing the lead in a movie which had actually some potential. Unfortunately, the damned thing was still rather weak though. It’s too bad because, like I mentioned before, this whole money-laundering scheme combined with a satire about the Art business world actually had some real potential. However, the end-result turned out to be a mess. It’s interesting or rather pathetic, depending on how you look at it that, even though ‘Pulp Fiction’ was already released 30 years ago, filmmakers are still trying to emulate the rapid-fire smart*ss dialogues from this seminal classic but they usually terribly fail. Even hiring Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson won’t be enough to compensate the general weakness displayed here. The first act was especially awkward to behold. Indeed, they tried to introduce the main characters but I seriously had no idea who they were, what they were doing and what they were actually saying. At some point, it all became clear but the way to get there was rather convoluted and, above all, not entertaining at all. After that, the dialogues were constantly indecipherable but, since the story was quite generic and predictable, I didn’t really follow anymore what they were saying, at least, not word for word and I seriously didn’t miss a thing. Coming back on Thurman, I still think she was actually pretty good here but it’s rather sad that her best performance in years was still wasted in yet another rather weak movie like this one.

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