MQ Qureshi

Wow was this an awful mess of a movie. At the end I thought, what the heck did I watch? Recco - Skip it, and watch a Baz Luhrmann movie like Moulin Rouge to see how color, kinetic energy, storyline and dazzle all come together. Pros - - Margot Robbie gives it everything she's got Cons - - Overindulgent debauchery that makes you uncomfortable too many times. We get it, Hollywood can be depraved. Move on. We don't need to be hit over the head with it. - Too many, uneven characters. If this movie had focused on one character (e.g. Robbie) it would give us something to focus on. Instead, it juggles way too many to a point where we are not rooting for Nellie much because we don't observe her struggles to understand her pain, and others it doesn't do much with. The story of the black jazzman facing racism is such an afterthought that it underlines the point of exclusion rather than highlight it. - Tobey Maguire's character was just... icky.

Boy I wanted to like this show, but it turned out to be horrible. My wife and I slogged through it to see what happened, but it wasn't worth it. In their quest to create complex characters they ended up with not a single sympathetic one. The writing was incredibly uneven with characters frequently acting against their arcs simply to stretch out the plot or create false drama. Many great performances wasted, a number of promising plot points going nowhere and an ending that just made you gasp in frustrated exhaustion. What a waste. Watch "Fortitude" instead.