A movie directed by the MAD MAX series and also a few good kids films; with the great Idris Elba and Oscar winner (perhaps too hysterical for my taste but obviously a great actress ) Tilda Swinton has a too good pedigree to be a failure. Well is sadly the worst I have seen in cinemas in a very long time; and believe I see a lot of crap since the pandemic.
The story in itself is absurd. A very hysterical and solitary woman; travels to Turkey for conference and in a market shop finds a bottle with a Genie inside.
The Genie ask her for three wishes in order to be liberated from the bottle. The woman argue she has no wishes but wants to hear the Genie story.
The Genie tells three absurd and not very bright stories; between some discussion about love, desires and other things; at the end she makes her first desire. To be loved by the Genie.
All these happens during the first hour and a half but it feels like a five boring hours.
Then they back to England and after series of uninteresting and frankly nonsense situations Genie get almost dead (or something) so she makes couple of wished so she survive and left.
At end the Genie comes back to visit her and stay with her while she is still alive. End of movie.
Contrary to what you think; the movie is not romantic; not funny. There a lot of atrocious nudity and some light violence but nothing entertaining .
Even chemistry between the leads is absent. Perhaps that was something forced. It is never clear if she is almost mad or simply imagination.
She is reciting a book she had written; but how much is real or not is never clear; but in fact it does not seem to matter either.
The original idea it was somewhat interesting; but Miller did not seem to pointed to something better or at least with a clear message. The only message you might get is "Women are hysterical and men are dumbs"
In brief do not loose your time. If you wan something strange but with a lot of sense see "Everything, everywhere all at once" a movie incredible well done. Perhaps a little too long but still marvelous.
The story in itself is absurd. A very hysterical and solitary woman; travels to Turkey for conference and in a market shop finds a bottle with a Genie inside.
The Genie ask her for three wishes in order to be liberated from the bottle. The woman argue she has no wishes but wants to hear the Genie story.
The Genie tells three absurd and not very bright stories; between some discussion about love, desires and other things; at the end she makes her first desire. To be loved by the Genie.
All these happens during the first hour and a half but it feels like a five boring hours.
Then they back to England and after series of uninteresting and frankly nonsense situations Genie get almost dead (or something) so she makes couple of wished so she survive and left.
At end the Genie comes back to visit her and stay with her while she is still alive. End of movie.
Contrary to what you think; the movie is not romantic; not funny. There a lot of atrocious nudity and some light violence but nothing entertaining .
Even chemistry between the leads is absent. Perhaps that was something forced. It is never clear if she is almost mad or simply imagination.
She is reciting a book she had written; but how much is real or not is never clear; but in fact it does not seem to matter either.
The original idea it was somewhat interesting; but Miller did not seem to pointed to something better or at least with a clear message. The only message you might get is "Women are hysterical and men are dumbs"
In brief do not loose your time. If you wan something strange but with a lot of sense see "Everything, everywhere all at once" a movie incredible well done. Perhaps a little too long but still marvelous.