An average movie

I already saw this movie but, since it was a while back and since it was available on Disney+, I thought I might as well give it another chance. I remember it very well when it was released, it was at the time a massive critical and commercial flop. Well, unfortunately, after all these years, I’m afraid the damned thing was still seriously weak. Basically, it was supposed to be some kind of cute, whimsical and perhaps even inspiring tale but it just never worked. While re-watching it, I was thinking that it must feel like this when you get some bad acid-trip. I mean, sure, visually, it looked pretty good but the end-result was pretty much a mix of really random and weird scenes. To make things worse, most of the dialogues was filled with some incomprehensible mambo-jambo involving something called Camazotz, some tesseract and three mysterious misses who really came out from nowhere. At least, Storm Reid had some charisma and displayed some potential in spite of this poor material. In fact, there was actually a really strong cast involved (Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Peña, André Holland) but it was rather embarrassing to see them struggling to make something interesting and/or entertaining from this material. I haven’t read the book which is apparently really popular but you might wonder if it might be actually adaptable to the silver screen but there is no doubt that this attempt was a huge failure. But, above all, I felt bad for Ava DuVernay. Indeed, it was such a historical event that a black woman had the opportunity to direct such a big budget feature. Fortunately, she made a nice rebound the following year with ‘When They See Us’  which was quite amazing. Anyway, to conclude, I was just bored by the damned thing, it was not only weak, it was also seriously pretentious, and I don't think it is really worth a look.

5/10