I watched this right after watching the "Come from Away" documentary about Gander Newfoundland, which left me feeling wonderful. You see, I actually like people most of the time and felt that this was an accurate description of most of the people I know...okay...these people seemed SO nice, I almost want to move there. If they'd landed in Toronto, they wouldn't have been treated nearly as well...so I'm feeling wonderful, all warm and fuzzy, then I look to see what else is on and I remembered hearing about how wonderful Julianne Moore was in "Maps to the Stars". I am a Julianne Moore fan, so I watched it.
WOW! What a horrible downer of a movie. I went from feeling everyone is basically good deep down inside to watching a movie full of characters who have NO redeeming qualities at all. I almost turned it off twice, but I thought maybe there might be some redeeming type of ending where everyone might wake up and realize they are humans, not zombies. (There are no actual "zombies" in the film, just characters lacking souls) .
Julianne Moore's acting WAS excellent. She gets my 3 stars. John Cusak walked through the movie like he owed someone a favour. The girl was okay. Everyone else...eh...what could they do with such a hopeless plot?
This movie is devoid of any niceties at all. Oh maybe Carrie Fisher is a nice person. She appears in a cameo and isn't really a huge part of the movie though. The dog that gets shot looks like he was a nice pooch. The rest of the characters are completely unlikeable and as such I really didn't care what happened to any of them. If they'd managed to redeem themselves in any way? But they did not, so I felt depressed, gypped and robbed afterwards. Thanks so much for harsh interrogation my mellow. Not happy!
Review of Maps to the Stars
