Review of Catfish (2010) by Redfordsto — 25 Aug 2012
It's not just dull, this movie is too convenient to be anything other than staged. It's lacks the happenstance of being an accidental documentary and thereby sullies its own credibility. The trailer told a tale of thrilling intrigue that the actual movie could never deliver.
Thus, the promotion felt like a lie just as the premise feels like a lie. I want to say that the acting was fairly good, but the makers denied it was acting at all, so it's hard to find anything complimentary to say.
The only truth revealed by this cinematic attempt is that in making a fake documentary about how nothing is real on the internet, the filmmaker's own lack of honest adds credence to the notion that the world is full of convenient lies.
This review of Catfish (2010) was written by Redfordsto on 25 Aug 2012.
Catfish has generally received positive reviews.
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