Companion — 3/5
I think when movies have an easy logline — boy's girlfriend is a robot, say — then going into the movie requires the patience of waiting for everyone else to know what you already went into the movie knowing. I now, 41 years later, understand the easy appeal of those loglines as a way to get people in, but the trade-off is an ultimately unsatisfying first twenty minutes as we twiddle our thumbs until shit happens. And from that moment where shit happens—a totally fine movie to be enjoyed passively. It knows what it is and does it well enough.
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