Promised Land Reviews

This movie was actually supposed to be Matt Damon's directing début but, I guess, it wasn't meant to be. Eventually, he still remained to play the lead but Gus Van Sant took over the directing duties. Anyway, even though it really had some potential, even though I really wanted to like it, the whole thing was ultimately rather disappointing. Indeed, most of it was actually quite subtle and intriguing. First, you get introduced to Matt Damon and Frances McDormand’s characters who were both likable and, yet, when you are starting to root for them, it actually turns out that they actually could be the bad guys after all. And that’s when the movie was actually really interesting, maybe they are not the bad guys, maybe they are no bad guys at all, and, as a result, you had a rather complex and subtle view of the world and I was wondering how they would further handle this. Unfortunately, it was pretty much all ruined by the ending. Indeed, they gave us 2 twists. The first one almost worked but not entirely (it was pretty neat to discover how sly and deceitful a huge corporation can be in order to reach its goals. It was pretty efficient and believable but, however, it was rather disappointing that they had to introduce after all a bad guy in this tale). Eventually, it was the second twist that really messed up everything. Indeed, so far, Matt Damon’s character was fairly believable and compelling to watch but his final speech was just really underwhelming and really naive. I mean, he seemed to be a smart guy, so how could he be so surprised that his company would do so such a thing? How could he be not aware of their dirty sales methods especially if he is a salesman for them? Furthermore, this whole conclusion pretty much changed this movie into some rather weak ecological propaganda.To conclude, it’s too bad this conclusion was so disappointing because the rest of the movie was not bad but I still think it is worth a look after all.

"La terra è diventata scura ed è morta. Se è successo ad uno di noi può succedere a tutti noi."
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Promised land is a promising story of a gas company representative who come in a small town to convince people to allow them to tap the Shale Gas resources under their farmland. The job seems to be an easy one to lure poor farm people with the shine of the money, however it become other way round. In order to avoid loosing the opportunity the gas company played a double game, however what happen is worth seeing the drama.