Serenity Reviews

Since this movie had been really poorly received, I didn’t expect much from it, but since there was a nice cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, first of all, I have to admit that it was an ambitious movie with an interesting concept. Indeed, after watching people being stuck in the Matrix, in some weird Alien world (‘Dark City’), in a TV-show (‘The Truman Show’) or in a book (‘Stranger Than Fiction’), why not in a video-game? At least, it sounded more appealing than watching Matthew McConaughey endlessly trying to catch some big tuna. Unfortunately, even though this concept definitely had some potential, it turned out to be so poorly developed, I’m afraid. The first issue was with the characters. I’m still not sure if it was because they were poorly written or because the actors involved gave some rather weak performances, especially Anne Hathaway who was seriously rather cringe-inducing to behold. Of course, you could argue that it was done on purpose because, after all, they were no real people but some characters in a video-game, but even within this concept, it didn't make these characters more interesting or entertaining. Another issue were the major plot-holes through the whole thing. In fact, I think that probably half of the movie displayed some form of plot-holes. I'm not sure which one was the most problematic or the most annoying one but I would go for the fact that some characters in this video-game would suddenly become completely aware of their predicament without a shred of explanation. Also the fact that one of the characters would casually mention that Patrick had designed his own video-game was just so terribly lazy. Anyway, to conclude, even though Steven Knight had a decent idea, the end-result was eventually terribly weak and I don't think it is really worth a look.