05/05/2026
❗HORRIBLE 1/10 ❗
This is one of Jude Law’s worst reviewed projects of his career. Not because of him. Because this film is getting dragged that badly
This felt like being trapped in a dead podcast for two hours. it felt like each character were creating their own memoir on the spot, just talking and talking while nothing actually happens. This movie drags you through decades and somehow manages to focus on the most boring s**t ever. .
The casting is a disaster. Almost everyone feels miscast except for Jude Law.. Everyone else feels average at best and completely off at worst. The accents sound fake, the delivery is flat, and nobody feels real. Paul Dano sounds like he is narrating an audiobook instead of performing. Alicia Vikander feels wasted. Tom Sturridge and Will Keen feel like they are playing dress up. Jeffrey Wright barely has anything to work with. It is stiff and honestly just bad.
The narration is brutal. It never stops. It keeps forcing information on you instead of letting anything happen naturally. I felt completely disconnected the entire time, like I was watching a rehearsal or even worse listening to a long political podcast that should have been shut off an hour ago.
This is a dragged out lifeless political podcast pretending to be a film. If I was at home I would have shut it off in 2 minutes.