Visually phenomenal. Takes the already spectacular visual identity of the original and experiments with it further. It's unleashed with clashing art-styles and a license to stage scenes in so many interesting ways in terms of the use of colour.
Not just that, but the settings used for this are show-stoppers, it's a wonder. The Mumbai-Manhattan combo? Insane. The future world and culmination of a set-piece taking place on a rocket ship to the moon??? Clearly everyone making this was having…
Panic attack, bad trip filmmaking at its most indulgent, but Ari Aster has proven himself already to be such an exciting voice in directing that this ended up being an absolute blast to watch. Even as vividly nightmarish as it is.
This twisted lens on reality feels nightmarish in a funny way. Lots of this film is genuinely hilarious while also a lot of it is actually stressful.
It captures the feeling a dream where you're stuck sinking into the…
"What the heck is happening?" asks protagonist Shinji Ikari late into this movie's runtime. Good fucking question. This third entry in the proposed "rebuild" of Neon Genesis Evangelion boldly diverges from the original plotline pretty much entirely, but brings in heaps of frustrating elements along with it.
I wrote out a review for this film yesterday afternoon, but decided to sit on it for a little while. Perhaps for better or worse I came to the realisation this morning that…
I do like this film's ambitions to be a smart blockbuster, but it ends up feeling like a watered down version of a greater ideal (in this case: the graphic novel it is based on).
I don't have too much good to specifically say about this film, but overall it does function as a decent blockbuster. It has its exciting moments and the core plot is interesting and mostly engaging. There's a few decent mindless action scenes as well. Hugo…
