4 Nov 2016

UNACCOMPLISHED POTENTIAL



„You have never seen a movie like this” says the advertisement for this year’s Sundance’s laureate, „Swiss army man”. And you truly have not. I mean, PaulDano being rescued by Daniel Radcliffe’s corpse that uses bodily gases for propulsion?

We haven’t seen one of those. What we did see is the directors desperate need to elevate this indie into the stratosphere of symbolism and serious moviemaking. However, this is done by the dialogues just sparsely and not consistently. This goes for the acting as well, where the leading couple climaxes too soon, leaving the story and the entire flick to hang somewhere in between at the very end.

„Swiss army man” has a truly original, but not fully developed and accomplished concept.






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