Locked Down
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Doug LimanScenario:
Steven KnightCamera:
Remi AdefarasinMuziek:
John PowellActeurs:
Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ben Stiller, Lucy Boynton, Stephen Merchant, Ben Kingsley, Mindy Kaling, Dulé Hill, Mark Gatiss, Jazmyn Simon (meer)Streaming (2)
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Just as they decide to separate, Linda (Anne Hathaway) and Paxton (Chiwetel Ejiofor) find that fate has other plans when a mandatory lockdown forces them to cohabitate – and brings them closer together in surprising ways. (HBO Max)
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Two renowned filmmakers (though one of them already senile) meet on Zoom and decide that they will quickly put together a film about why they have to communicate online. Lockdown is a spectacle that seems to have been born in a rush and on its knees. It wants to be timely and satirical, but it’s weirdly contrived and boring; it wants to be romantic and appealing, but it’s cold, and instead of providing solace in these difficult times, promotes the idea of how to exploit them to one’s own benefit. There are a couple of good jokes (poor Edgar Allan Poe, though), and Hathaway is more beautiful every day, but mostly, it’s a tedious parade of pointless dialogues that no normal person would ever utter, and I believe this should be about normal people. I really don’t know why Liman got into this – Knight has been writing crap for a long time and not even the best director could have saved this. It’s about the coronavirus and it flies… 40%
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Another lockdown that you vainly wish would end as soon as possible. Liman is completely out of his element, spinning a disjointed script, a disjointed style, and completely out of focus. A few hints of humorous observation are subverted by a heist with no build-up and a romance with no spark.
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About the current period it is possible to discuss from a psychological, sociological, biological, pedagogical, philosophical, sexological, health, sports, economic, actually maybe from basically any perspective, so filmmakers who want to capture this time have a wealth of options. And the first significant swallow burned its wings and went up in flames like paper. A terrible experience, I was biting with boredom and pushing the footage. If I didn't have a rule to always finish watching the movie, even if it's any nonsense, I would turn it off shortly before halfway. About two jokes succeeded and some topics that currently bother us were touched here and there, but the rest is a total disaster. I don't understand why Anne took on this role...
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