A good movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was directed by Edgar Wright, I was of course eager to check it out. Well, to be honest, I had a hard time to really care about this movie, even more than with ‘Baby Driver’ which already didn’t really impress me. However, it wasn’t a bad movie though, not all. Indeed, as usual with Wright, the damned thing was visually quite impressive, the soundtrack was really neat and I just loved the mood. I also did appreciate that he was once again doing something so completely different than his previous movies. Furthermore, Anya Taylor-Joy displayed once again that she is one of the most fascinating actresses at work nowadays and she definitely didn’t disappoint me here. For Thomasin McKenzie, she doesn’t have quite reach yet the same status as Taylor-Joy, at least, not for me (she is still very young though) but there is no denying that both actresses did deliver some strong performances here. However, from the moment the main character had her first ‘dream’ bringing her back in Soho in the 60’s, to be honest, they actually lost me. The first thing that bothered me was the fact it was obvious that both characters would actually never really interact with each other which was rather frustrating. On top of that, in spite of Taylor-Joy’s effort, her character was just not developed enough. I’m not surprised that the flashback scenes were originally supposed to be without dialogue but it shows how limited this character was from the start. Then, there was the issue that these flashback scenes, even though there were technically really neat, were actually quite redundant. Another narrative mistake they made was that Eloise chose not once but TWICE to escape a toxic environment (at the very beginning, when she decided to leave her dorm and, towards the end, when she decided to leave London all together) and it was just weird or, at least, never properly explained why Sandie wouldn't simply just leave this dreadful situation like the other main character did in this story. Finally, the link between the present day and the past was just too thin and, as result, you basically had two films constantly vampirizing each other. Anyway, to conclude, the more I think about it, the more I believe that my rating was actually too generous for this movie but I still think it was a decent watch because the damned thing was just so well made and the actresses involved gave such solid performances.