Warning: if you expect this film to be a typical Hollywoodian action movie, then you need to pick another film. And now...Ladies and Gentlemen is in many ways quintessentially French, which means it is character-driven and subtle. However, it inherits many of the typical French flaws: the artsy feel of depth (the movie is meant to make you doubt the story as it is recounted by two people, neither of which can trust their memories, and therefore confuse dream-images and reality. It gets pretty annoying, especially at the end: you feel that the director could not be bothered to make a choice as to what happens to his characters), the slowness (oh my god, that was just too much for me. I know that there is no need for some frantic action, but did Lelouch really need to show us precisely why we need action in movies? After endless scenes in which nothing significant happen you feel ready to scream). Although the leads give good performances, and the beginning is Okay, I would not recommend this movie, if only because the ending is too frustrating (I absolutely hate the kind of movie that falsely tries to be ambiguous by letting the viewer write the ending. It sounds more like laziness than ambuguity to me).
Review of And Now Ladies & Gentlemen
