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Ifeoma B This is nice and I recommend but I expected more at the end. I wanted the old man to let Rory write a second book on the story of how the first book came about and give credits to the old man and I feel in that way Rory wouldn't live in doubt. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/10/25 Full Review Blu B The musics pretty good and Bradley Cooper's performance is great along with JK Simmons but aside from that there really isn't much else I can point too that left much of an impression on me. Everything is mediocre. Going down the list: Zoe Saldana is just alright in this and has some decent chemistry with Cooper but a lot of times I just felt like she was forgettable and the script doesn't do much with her. My biggest problem with this is the overall structure of 3 stories that form a story within a story within a story is an interesting idea but I've yet to see it done right once. Most films that do just a story within a story have to walk a very fine to line and it's difficult so I can't imagine how hard it is to do to the 3rd power. Each of the three main characters get a third of the runtime roughly and it makes perfect sense. Nothing is covuluted about it at all. The biggest problem is in the middle where for 30 minutes straight Irons character comes in and we get a 30 minute flashback fo him talking about himself in the third person which was weird and it feels like this 30 minute scene should'nt have been ANYWHERE near this long. This is a 2-3 minute scene that's dragged out terribly and feels like it doesn't add up to much in the overall plot. Cooper feels like from the start of Iron's scene to the end he's forgotten about and when we jump back to him it feels like we forget about the other two. It just has difficulty weaving the three stories together and finding the right balance of how to distribute the time amongst each. This should've mainly focused on Cooper & Irons and how a writers work can reflect them as a person. But it feels like that message is lost in a muddled screenplay. I felt like the takeaway was supposed to be you live with your mistakes, don't plagerize, and writers reflect their characters but never knew how to say this in a focused/smooth manner. Than it just ends abruptly it felt like in a very anticlimatic way. The direction here isn't bad but the lighting can be dull a lot of times, and some shotts are better than others. I've seen this stealing other people's work storyline done better honestly in 15-30 minute cartoons and sitcoms. This feels like it's making it overly complicated and it isn't smoothed out anywhere near enough to make it work. Skip This and watch a sitcom episode about stealing someone elses work instead. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/27/24 Full Review Anna J Perfect cast and a great script. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/15/24 Full Review Georgan G This gripping movie shows how lives intertwine. And how everyone makes choices that they must learn to live with. I don't understand why the critics did not like it. Perhaps their lives are so simplistic they can't imagine how others may live. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/30/24 Full Review Francesca B I would not watch it a second time, but I would watch it again for the first time. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Great movie, Great plot, Good storyline moves the scenes along well. Intriguing from the beginning. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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