An average movie

Since I’m a huge fan of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s work, I was thrilled to hear that his next movie would be available on Netflix and it immediately became a top priority for me this year. Well, it’s only after the watching the damned thing that I discovered that it had received some rather weak reviews and, unfortunately, I would have to agree with the critics on this one. Indeed, it turned out to be a huge disappointment and easily the weakest movie Jeunet has delivered so far. Sure, there were a couple of decent ideas but most of it was actually really weak. Concerning the story, it might have had some potential but, eventually, it was just too generic and not really interesting after all. And I shouldn't forget to mention that it was supposed to be a comedy but most of the jokes were just terribly lame. At least, Jeunet has always been a visionary film maker, especially visually speaking, and the idea of having him playing around with so much CGI was actually really neat. However, the whole thing looked just not convincing and was rather ugly so, even in this area, it turned out to be rather disappointing. Finally, the casting was not bad, at least, I won’t blame the actors, but there were probably too many characters involved as none of them was properly developed. In fact, most of these characters were rather obnoxious but, even if it was done on purpose, none of them was either interesting or really entertaining. Eventually, the more I think about it, the less I actually enjoyed the damned thing and, yet, with such a concept, with such a director, it could and should have been really cool. Anyway, to conclude, it’s only march 2022 and I think I already watched the most disappointing movie to be released this year, basically, the damned thing was just really weak and you should probably avoid it, except maybe if you are a die-hard fan of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s work.