Review of Tar

Tar (2020)
1/10
Too many odious things to get onboard for a silly, low budget horror
24 February 2021
The acting is bad. The cast is weak. The jokes are terrible. The script is stupid. It is shot poorly, and even the makeup and effects were way below sub-par. And that is just in the first 7 minutes. They tried SO hard to build tension and suspense, and all of it falls flat. One of the major issues with this film is that they attempt to play certain situations as serious and tense, and none of them are. As for the jokes, they are of this caliber:

-Calling reading palms a "handjob," so one character can say she gave handjobs to everyone in the office -A busty brunette saying she is very "anal ...(long pause) about packing." -The same busty brunette working at DD Accounting -A jewish lawyer character straight out of a racist, Nazi propaganda cartoon from the 1930s. I'll leave it at that for the jokes, a those are the ones that happen in the first 10 minutes of the movie. But please believe that none of them land. Ever.

The whole movie is punctuated by a close-up, bad makeup, protagonist who monologues the viewer through the movie's events. Give this guy a supporting role in a "dude bro" comedy and I'm sure he'll do fine. In this, he is absolutely incapable of carrying this movie.

In order to avoid spoiling anything past the first 15 minutes, I'll just say about the premise that having been given a 2 week notice to vacate a business building, it is ridiculous that the tenants would wait until the evening of the last day to start packing paperwork and move.

The soundtrack and the way that the whole movie pauses for musical montages every time they feature a song is very amateurish.

This movie might have risen to a 2 or *maybe* a 3 (for Graham Greene and Max Perlich alone.) But the racist Jewish character drops this to the unwatchable level.

Props to Tres Delincuentes who make an appearance on this soundtrack.
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