An average movie

Even though this movie was really poorly received when it was released, since I have always been a fan of Jim Jarmusch, I was still eager to check it out. Well, eventually, even if it was maybe not Jarmusch’s worse movie, unfortunately, it was still his laziest effort so far. Basically, the main issue was probably that there was no pulse whatsoever. Of course, that’s something that you could argue about most of Jim Jarmusch’s movies. The issue in this case was that he tried to deliver a comedy which was barely funny after all. I mean, at some point, when Bill Murray asks Adam Driver how he knows that everything will end badly, Driver tells him he knows it because Jim gave him the full script. And that was one of the better jokes. Sure, it was cute to see RZA playing a deliver guy for ‘WU-PS’ but the whole thing didn’t fly really high, that’s for sure. Futhermore, if Jarmusch probably gathered his strongest cast so far (Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi, Selena Gomez, Tom Waits, Danny Glover, RZA, Iggy Pop), it actually backfired. Indeed, there were basically too many characters involved and, as a result, none of them was really developed. Even worse, none of them was really interesting or entertaining. Eventually, I don’t known which one was worse, Selena Gomez, who showed up for 2 scenes for some unknown reasons (maybe to provide some misguided eye-candy?) or Tilda Swinton who played some weird Scottish samurai sword fighting funeral parlour owner (or maybe she wasn’t Scottish after all?). It’s such a shame because, a couple of years ago, Jarmusch managed to do something really neat with the vampire genre with ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’. However, this time, he tried to tackle the current zombie craze but, unfortunately, he did absolutely nothing interesting with an already completely overdone genre. Anyway, to conclude, even if I have always supported Jim Jarmusch, I don’t think there is any reason why you should check this movie, even if you really like the genre.