Men Reviews

Even though this movie apparently didn’t get much love when it was released, since it was directed by Alex Garland, I was still quite eager to check it out. Well, first of all, visually speaking, it was hands down one of the most impressive movies I have seen released in 2022. Garland also delivered a nice haunting mood, at least, during the first hour. Furthermore, I have discovered Jessie Buckley only 2 years ago in ‘I'm Thinking of Ending Things’, I think that there is something so charismatic about her and she was really good here once again. Of course, I shouldn’t forget to mention Rory Kinnear. I have to admit that, even though I knew his name and saw him in a few movies, Kinnear never seemed to be an interesting actor but, here, the guy did manage to play about 10 different characters in this movie which was quite impressive. Concerning the rest of the movie, well, it was a decent mindf*ck, some kind of feverish nightmare but, to be honest, it did feel rather empty after all. It’s strange that this movie was described as ‘misogynic’ because, in my opinion, it was in fact exactly the other way around. Indeed, the main character was basically traumatized after what happened with her ex-husband and, from then on, in her eyes, all men were the same and they were all a threat but it wasn’t as deep or clever as the makers obviously were hoping for. Eventually, this movie wasn’t empty because of the lack of characters, Buckley and Kinnear were indeed fine, it felt empty because the ideas and concepts (or lack of it) didn’t really impress me and, as a whole, it felt rather shallow and even pretentious. Anyway, to conclude, even though I have to admit that my rating might be too high for this movie, I still think it is worth a look though, especially if you like the genre or if you are interested in Alex Garland’s work.