One of the worst experience of watching films in recent years was when I sat down and endured the sickly shot and vastly over-rated movie The Constant Gardner.
I could understand the important message of the film, I thought it was decently acted but I couldn’t help but feel director Fernando Meirelles was being a little self-indulgent with his film-making in his Hollywood debut.
So frantic. So desperate to go to the next scene or shake the camera because it will add some tension. I hate to say this but the film felt like it was fraud, I dunno I just couldn’t buy into it at all and it made me feel a little sick. I struggled through it like a visit to the dentist.
So brings us to the director’s next movie Blindness about a sudden epidemic where the people randomly in a certain town are starting to turn blind.
Ultra-boring thriller actress Julianne Moore (I think she sucks in this genre anyway), Mark Ruffalo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Danny Glover and Alice Braga make-up the cast.
Looks sickly as ever. I don’t know why but there is something about the way this guy makes movies that I really don’t like. I’m getting a Children of Mine vibe with this flick but it doesn’t look half as interesting to me…
Look for this one in October – you could always pass the time before then by reading the Jose Saramengo novel upon which the film is based.
source – coming soon
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Talking as a reader of the book, I can say this story does have a Children of Men vibe to it but its twice as interesting.Just wait and see.
The trailer doesn’t sell it well if it’s that interesting.
The trailer doesn’t sell it, but the concept is visceral enough to sell the film all by itself.
If I hadn’ t already read the book, I would be intrigued by the trailer and would want to watch the movie. So I guess this is a good trailer… BTW it is José Saramago, one of only two portuguese Nobel prize winners, not Saramengo.