The idea that journalist integrity exists in the US, or that journalism exist at all, is the laughable premiss of this badly made movie. The secondary premiss is that orange man is bad and if we do not watch out the poor, the oppressed, the robbed and the fooled might rebell against an authoritative evil president. Oh no, that would be horrible...
The movie is about getting our so called "journalists" from point A to Point B while listening to the two premisses mentioned above. This is, as you can imagine, a boring and a nonsensical format for a movie. This is also supposed to be an anti-war movie, or rather anti civil-war movie. On this it too fails spectacularly. All I saw was that a civil war is really needed in the US, even that a movie like this is made is a sign that it is needed.
So in essence this is a boring, extremely formulaic, very simplistic movie which tell us nothing of value and have a laughable premiss to begin with.
I could forgive some of this if the directing was good and the cinematography was excellent, but even there the movie fails. Yes, Garland can apparently make a bad movie.
The only positives I can think of is that the acting is okay, the dialogue is not horrible and camera work and sound design is okay. For those not so bad traits I give this a generous 3/10. I should probably give this a lower score, but kind of enjoyed this hoping this would happen in real life and of course hoping that the ruling elite and its current senile leader would be meet madame guillotine. Something popcorn friendly about that thought.
The movie is about getting our so called "journalists" from point A to Point B while listening to the two premisses mentioned above. This is, as you can imagine, a boring and a nonsensical format for a movie. This is also supposed to be an anti-war movie, or rather anti civil-war movie. On this it too fails spectacularly. All I saw was that a civil war is really needed in the US, even that a movie like this is made is a sign that it is needed.
So in essence this is a boring, extremely formulaic, very simplistic movie which tell us nothing of value and have a laughable premiss to begin with.
I could forgive some of this if the directing was good and the cinematography was excellent, but even there the movie fails. Yes, Garland can apparently make a bad movie.
The only positives I can think of is that the acting is okay, the dialogue is not horrible and camera work and sound design is okay. For those not so bad traits I give this a generous 3/10. I should probably give this a lower score, but kind of enjoyed this hoping this would happen in real life and of course hoping that the ruling elite and its current senile leader would be meet madame guillotine. Something popcorn friendly about that thought.