Friday, March 29, 2013
CHAOS
Today's movie was
Boy, this is one hell of a movie.
It never stops.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Bruce Willis now (great makeup and expression coaching) and, Willis is from the future and they meet.
Not all peaches and cream.
They are at odds. Like you would be at odds with yourself or have "issues" with your younger self.
I will not outline the plot. Go to this fine review at the above link. That will tell you something but it will be misleading. No one who sees it will tell you the truth.
One truth is that there is a great supporting cast. Paul Dano, Jeff Daniels, Emily Blunt. Fine fine fine.
And a kid actor who will knock your socks off. How can this kid have a normal life after this? Well nothing is normal in the film.
One thing is that there are vastly amusing set pieces and the finagling with the period (2044) we are in is hilarious. There are some anachronistic old things as well as some things we never saw. There is the usual dystopia but weird.
There is a thing called TK (telekinesis) which has entered the human gene pool. Sort of old fashioned science fiction. The film's look and its apparatus owes a lot to steampunk. In fact, I think it is actually steampunk. A newer version.
Gordon-Levitt, one of the few two-name stars, is really really good. Somewhere in the film they unleash the Diehard Willis and it is smooth as silk given Gordon-Levitt's performance up to that point. They had to work on this. "See kid, this is how Bruce fucking walks".
OK. I would watch it again. Still a few loose ends. But I don't care about that. Life IS loose ends. A 4 out of Netflix5.
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