Joaquin Phoenix was the main reason I saw this movie and even himself; a great actor, seems mostly lost in a one dimensional unexpressive role.
I was never a fan of Ari Aster; HEREDITARY and MIDSOMMER were too long and boring and the "horror" was very little an nothing really that original.
What he was trying to do here? Everything Everywhere All at Once was a great complex movie; with difficult but precise logic that gives a very refreshing and welcomed message about families; particularly mothers; and when very deserved OSCARs trophies.
Stanley Kubrick EYES WIDE SHUT; did something similar several years ago.
In this case; nothing really makes a lot of sense. It is like short stories without a proper ending; the terrifying neighborhood, the PSHYCO killer, the overprotective family, the theater play in the woods and the return to mother's home. All start terrifying but never end in any kind of logic; even worse the inexplicable end.
There are lots of rhetoric and frankly boring long moments that if the sound is not good you are going miss a lot (in any case nothing really that interesting); never an explanation of the ridiculous penis shaped monster; the imprisoned twins or the amphitheater statement completely different from what we had seen before.
In brief; it last three hours (it was supposed to last four an perhaps some things could have been properly defined) but you could do a lot of things better; like seen EVERYTHING EVERWHER ALL AT ONCE that is really a FAR BETTER MOVIE and less pretentious.
I was never a fan of Ari Aster; HEREDITARY and MIDSOMMER were too long and boring and the "horror" was very little an nothing really that original.
What he was trying to do here? Everything Everywhere All at Once was a great complex movie; with difficult but precise logic that gives a very refreshing and welcomed message about families; particularly mothers; and when very deserved OSCARs trophies.
Stanley Kubrick EYES WIDE SHUT; did something similar several years ago.
In this case; nothing really makes a lot of sense. It is like short stories without a proper ending; the terrifying neighborhood, the PSHYCO killer, the overprotective family, the theater play in the woods and the return to mother's home. All start terrifying but never end in any kind of logic; even worse the inexplicable end.
There are lots of rhetoric and frankly boring long moments that if the sound is not good you are going miss a lot (in any case nothing really that interesting); never an explanation of the ridiculous penis shaped monster; the imprisoned twins or the amphitheater statement completely different from what we had seen before.
In brief; it last three hours (it was supposed to last four an perhaps some things could have been properly defined) but you could do a lot of things better; like seen EVERYTHING EVERWHER ALL AT ONCE that is really a FAR BETTER MOVIE and less pretentious.