Edgar Wright his a talented even original director and has been having an very interesting career, but this film also shows his limitations. Last Night of Soho in many way has been seen in his career of a kind different film in his output, was promoted wrongly as a art-house movie, that clearly in way was to promoted the film as a serious film but hurt the film commercially.
This film in my opinion starts with a interesting idea, that we shouldn´t never idealize the past and the idea idea of mixing the present age with 1960´s is actually very well done. I also think the film is quite scary and tense (even if becomes tiresome in the last quarter of the movie), and was great to see old pros like Diane Rigg (in her last film), Terence Stamp and Rita Tushingham on screen. I also think the film visually is very striking with very clever ideas. The film is full of film references from Hitchcock, both genre and freecinema british films from the 60´s but the is biggest inspiration was from italian giallo´s from the 60´s and 70´s (Bava, Fulci, Argento). Actually Argento´s Suspiria is all over the place in the movie.
But the films has problems both with the script and and a certain a naivety in his socio-political message, who seems too say the mysogonystic people are really jerks and terrible people and the good guys are almost saints inccapable doing nothing wrong . One the problem I had was with the main character played very well by Thomasin Mckenzie but she´s playing her character who simply too innocent and isn´very believable, like the character played by Michael Ajao who comes from South London but seems coming out from a Disney movie. The other problems was having Eloise seen the ghosts in plain daily life but having us the viewer also seeing the ghosts in the libray scene, wich is ridiculous.
Also find the film a little bit overlong, maybe because of the conclusion of the story or because now every movie has to be at least almost 2 hours long.
In general I thought this film is watchable but a very uneven film.
This film in my opinion starts with a interesting idea, that we shouldn´t never idealize the past and the idea idea of mixing the present age with 1960´s is actually very well done. I also think the film is quite scary and tense (even if becomes tiresome in the last quarter of the movie), and was great to see old pros like Diane Rigg (in her last film), Terence Stamp and Rita Tushingham on screen. I also think the film visually is very striking with very clever ideas. The film is full of film references from Hitchcock, both genre and freecinema british films from the 60´s but the is biggest inspiration was from italian giallo´s from the 60´s and 70´s (Bava, Fulci, Argento). Actually Argento´s Suspiria is all over the place in the movie.
But the films has problems both with the script and and a certain a naivety in his socio-political message, who seems too say the mysogonystic people are really jerks and terrible people and the good guys are almost saints inccapable doing nothing wrong . One the problem I had was with the main character played very well by Thomasin Mckenzie but she´s playing her character who simply too innocent and isn´very believable, like the character played by Michael Ajao who comes from South London but seems coming out from a Disney movie. The other problems was having Eloise seen the ghosts in plain daily life but having us the viewer also seeing the ghosts in the libray scene, wich is ridiculous.
Also find the film a little bit overlong, maybe because of the conclusion of the story or because now every movie has to be at least almost 2 hours long.
In general I thought this film is watchable but a very uneven film.
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