Ryan Henry

I've tried. Genuinely, I have tried. I watched the movie last week and its well-crafted and clearly left some kind of an impact on me as I am writing this review. I've talked to others who liked the film more than myself to see if there is something I'm missing. There isn't. I get it, and I think it's bad. The satire is bold, willing to attack anyone and everyone, but, like the main character Joe, it approaches the situation with boldness and the moment any depth or confrontation arises, collapses into a pathetic timidness, lacking any better vision or conviction. On a surface level, the sattire works, but under any amount of scrutiny, it lacks any interesting qualities. This wouldnt be an issue if thos was the new Naked Gun movie, but Ari Aster asks, demands the audience to dig deep. I'm glad that some people are getting something out of this movie, but I do not think it rises above the divisiveness it makes fun of. In the end, the sattire feels like it applies more readily to the movie itself than to anything in reality. Ari Aster scored a bit of an own goal with this one.