By M
Come on, there are many reasons to watch this movie. These are not self-evident, but hey, neither is the theory of relativity (unfortunate comparison, I know).
I mean, I think that we can acknowledge that watching anything with Will Smith is legitimate for those of us who grew up with the Prince of Bel Air. It’s called nostalgia. More seriously, there is Eva Mendes. We are a level beyond legit on Eva Mendez since Holy Motors (yes, I don’t even have to mention Ryan Gosling, how about that).
So I watched this. It is so dull that I had to lie to N when she asked me ‘what are you doing?’ There is NO interest whatsoever.It tries hard to be funny, but it rarely manages to do so, and when it does so, these are jokes you could have come up with easily. I mean super easily, like, you are unconscious and still able to come up with those jokes.
There isn’t even a ‘transformation’ as such of any of the heroes as the genre would demand: neither Will Smith nor Eva Mendes transform, they have just been waiting for the ‘right person’. When the right person comes, they don’t even hesitate. Then there is a misunderstanding: and that, my friends is the only plot recourse that allows the plot to be that, a plot. The story is totally predictable and even the plot switch feels like the director’s best friend told him: hey man, shouldn’t something ‘happen’ in a movie? Thank God he didn’t think he was doing some arty movie and instead of responding ‘no’, he introduced the aforementioned plot twist.
This movie is a joke. You get to see a tiny bit of NYC, so maybe, just in case something terrible happens and NYC is transformed into Pleasantville, let’s not destroy all the copies of this movie.
By the way, this guy directed the memorable Fool’s Gold. I am in shock at the news that I have watched two of his movies in one same year. This is real.
But do not watch it, unless things are really bad and then Lou Reed dies.
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