Demolition is grief at high-speed, a bumpy road of a fantastic character study held together by Jake Gyllenhaal.
Gyllenhaal plays Davis Mitchell, a man struck by the sudden loss of his wife. Following his passage of grief we learn a lot about him and his emotions towards his wife. Gyllenhaal does a phenomenal job, I consider myself a fan of everything he's done but here he brings alive a character that's hard to sum up on paper, a man lost in a state of being so foreign to him.
Other than Gyllenhaal's performance the film follows a lot of predictable points, a few walking cliché characters and a hell of a lot of letter writing. Nothing unbearable, just a little bit too on the nose. Although the editing is very commendable and felt different to the usual expectation, although it does make the film seem slightly too fragmented at points in which more clarity would have helped.
While parts of Demolition may be somewhat average it's still worth the watch for Jake Gyllenhaal and another one of his wonderful acts alone.
Gyllenhaal plays Davis Mitchell, a man struck by the sudden loss of his wife. Following his passage of grief we learn a lot about him and his emotions towards his wife. Gyllenhaal does a phenomenal job, I consider myself a fan of everything he's done but here he brings alive a character that's hard to sum up on paper, a man lost in a state of being so foreign to him.
Other than Gyllenhaal's performance the film follows a lot of predictable points, a few walking cliché characters and a hell of a lot of letter writing. Nothing unbearable, just a little bit too on the nose. Although the editing is very commendable and felt different to the usual expectation, although it does make the film seem slightly too fragmented at points in which more clarity would have helped.
While parts of Demolition may be somewhat average it's still worth the watch for Jake Gyllenhaal and another one of his wonderful acts alone.