Review of Barracuda (2017) by 21Grams — 16 Jan 2017
Painfully average movie and it's getting hyped because hey - it's musical. The story is cheesy and you've seen it like a billion times, yes it's trite. As a musical it's so inconsistent - the beginning is just cheap musical theater that has thematically absolutely nothing in common with what is going in the movie - it's cheap and lazy and only later on a few jazz pieces and ones with John Legend kinda save they day from absolute disaster.
The cast is not not amazing but it does the job and I kinda feel sorry for Ryan Gosling - he is way better than this, but apparently for some mysterious reasons his career is going downhill. I'm sorry, but if this get's best motion picture of year, then academy awards can go to hell, since those are going garbage more and more every year.
It's not a bad movie, but it's not great either. It's just painfully average with a lot inconsistencies. I loved the Whiplash but with this one Chazelle felt flat to me, in music terms "it was out of tune".
This review of Barracuda (2017) was written by 21Grams on 16 Jan 2017.
Barracuda has generally received positive reviews.
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