First of all, the editing of this is terrible, just awful. There's no story arc. Chopped up bits of meaningless conversations are interjected throughout. And the cliches, oh the cliches. They smack you in the face with their obviousness.
But worse than this is the wasted right place, right time opportunity. To happen to be in Kyiv during the first day of the invasion with access to Zelinsky, yet get so little from it is devastating and disappointing.
Zelinsky wisely took the time to meet with this high profile American to ask him to communicate the need for American support. Penn responds with a platitude about heroism. And then bolts right out of the country.
There is very little content about the cost to the Ukranian people. One segment shows a woman in her blown-out apartment. And a hole in the ground of a children's playground. We all know the toll of death and destruction is unspeakable and this felt like it was being trivialized.
More time is spent on glorifying Penn and his celebrity tourism of war-torn and natural disaster areas. As well as wasted footage of him sitting in a car driving out of Ukraine.
In the end, it's mostly a puff piece about how a silly comedian put in an unimaginable position, rose the the occasion to take on the evil empire. Rife with trite banalities.
But worse than this is the wasted right place, right time opportunity. To happen to be in Kyiv during the first day of the invasion with access to Zelinsky, yet get so little from it is devastating and disappointing.
Zelinsky wisely took the time to meet with this high profile American to ask him to communicate the need for American support. Penn responds with a platitude about heroism. And then bolts right out of the country.
There is very little content about the cost to the Ukranian people. One segment shows a woman in her blown-out apartment. And a hole in the ground of a children's playground. We all know the toll of death and destruction is unspeakable and this felt like it was being trivialized.
More time is spent on glorifying Penn and his celebrity tourism of war-torn and natural disaster areas. As well as wasted footage of him sitting in a car driving out of Ukraine.
In the end, it's mostly a puff piece about how a silly comedian put in an unimaginable position, rose the the occasion to take on the evil empire. Rife with trite banalities.