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Watched in 2016
BradWesley123's Movie Journal- June 2016 (30 movies items)" Netflix- 1hr 41min. First Viewing Bland, toothless and pointless; Special Correspondents is a satire with no understanding of anything it's satirizing. Outside of Vera Farmiga's performance, nothing in this movie works. In fact, the movie somehow pivots towards the end, and attempts to be heartwarming. Watching this, I get the sense that Gervais doesn't like being associated with narcissistic characters, and just wants people to see him as a nice guy. Making Special Correspondents will not help"
BAMF's March 2017 Cinejourney (40 movies items)" Familiar Actors: Ricky Gervais Eric Bana Vera Farmiga Kelly Macdonald Kevin Pollak America Ferrera Raul Castillo Benjamin Bratt Meghan Heffern and Pedro Migue Arce True Rating: 6.5/10 My Review: Reviewal Correspondents"
“I was planning to check this out when it originally came out, but I ended up not feeling up to it until now. I like the cast well enough and the story sounded interesting. Ricky Gervais also wrote and directed another starring role with The Invention of Lying which was just average. Anyways let's see if this is any better than that.
Well I enjoyed this more than his other film. Though it's probably not by too much. Most of the movie was kind of boring. It had moments that were amusing and the idea of whole story was fun. It just didn't really have me fully invested. The stuff near the end though I thought was the most fun of the whole movie. When things got intense in absurd ways that's when things finally got fun. Yet it was a bit late to truly say it was anything more than aver” read more
