Ithilfaen
Joined Sep 2004
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Ithilfaen's rating
The characters are walking (or limping) clichés. The "intrigue" is thin even by tv whodunit standards. The dialog is so boring and by-the-numbers, it could be written by AI.
Guess who the culprit is? Pro tip: it's always the one character nobody suspects until the end.
Oh and of course the genius investigator has a long Colombo monologue in which to explain to the culprit how he knows it's them.
And let's not even get started on the 1980ies setup with the female assistant in love with her boss. It's too pathetic to even dig into.
Pretty much what you'd expect from JK Rowling really: just a rehash of the same old crap.
Guess who the culprit is? Pro tip: it's always the one character nobody suspects until the end.
Oh and of course the genius investigator has a long Colombo monologue in which to explain to the culprit how he knows it's them.
And let's not even get started on the 1980ies setup with the female assistant in love with her boss. It's too pathetic to even dig into.
Pretty much what you'd expect from JK Rowling really: just a rehash of the same old crap.
Overly long and tedious with characters that hover between several tropes without really committing to one and a mystery that has all the absurdity of an Agatha Christie story except... you know... it's cold, as the movie makes a big point of showing many many times because hey, it's Sweden, Americans!
Lisbeth Salander is a mastermind hacker who somehow cannot hack into social services to delete her file altogether, who doesn't know how to set up a discretionary bank account so she could "have control of her own money" and who uses an Apple laptop. Good one.
I remember watching the movie a decade ago and thinking it was pretty boring and that characters behaved inconsistently depending on what the writers needed out of them. I tried to watch it again and see if things would make more sense this time around. They did not/
Lisbeth Salander is a mastermind hacker who somehow cannot hack into social services to delete her file altogether, who doesn't know how to set up a discretionary bank account so she could "have control of her own money" and who uses an Apple laptop. Good one.
I remember watching the movie a decade ago and thinking it was pretty boring and that characters behaved inconsistently depending on what the writers needed out of them. I tried to watch it again and see if things would make more sense this time around. They did not/
Who wrote this?
It plays into every trope of the Noir movie but in such a hamfisted way, it's like it was written by AI.
Everything is so obvious, it might as well be written in neon light all over the screen from the start, which I guess it kinda is.
To make matters worse, we get scene after scene of exposure and explanation as if the plot was so sophisticated, simple minded folks like us couldn't understand it. Seriously?
Finally as a monozygotic twin, I had to laugh out loud at the ridiculous premise and big (first) "twist" of the movie. Twins are not perfect adult replicas of their siblings.
It plays into every trope of the Noir movie but in such a hamfisted way, it's like it was written by AI.
Everything is so obvious, it might as well be written in neon light all over the screen from the start, which I guess it kinda is.
To make matters worse, we get scene after scene of exposure and explanation as if the plot was so sophisticated, simple minded folks like us couldn't understand it. Seriously?
Finally as a monozygotic twin, I had to laugh out loud at the ridiculous premise and big (first) "twist" of the movie. Twins are not perfect adult replicas of their siblings.
