An average movie

After almost 10 years, Jonathan Glazer was finally coming up with a new directing effort so I was quite eager to check it out. Eventually, it turned out to be a really tough watch and I'm not surprised that it didn't get much love when it was released, even though some called it one of the best movies of the year, but something similar already happened with 'Birth', his previous movie. The point is that it was visually impressive, as usual with this director, Scarlett Johansson delivered a solid performance and it was certainly bold and original but I just had  a really hard time to connect with it. I mean, the whole thing was just so silent, for the first time in my life, I was almost missing one of these obnoxious side-kicks that they always provide so that a solitary lead character still has someone to talk to. I mean, because of this approach, it was all really mysterious and usually spellbinding to watch but it was also almost impossible to connect with the main character and to care about what was going on. On top of that, it was just really repetitive: she gets in her van, rides around for hours, picks up some random guy and brings him home for diner. By the way, she would have scored much easily if she would have just walked down the streets but, maybe, there was also there some hidden agenda. Anyway, to conclude, even though it didn’t completely work for me, it was still a really original flick and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you want to see something really different.

6/10