Review of Knight of Cups (2015) by Joe M — 05 Mar 2016

This is one spectacularly boring and a very lazy film... First things first, it seems that the whole movie is about hanging out in luxury mansions in Hollywood Hills and upscale lofts in Santa Monica, and doing other things that I can't afford. That's just so in your face and has no value. Second, he uses every other touristy location in Los Angeles. Like obligatory DTLA view? Check. LACMA lanterns? Check. Santa Monica blue safeguard booths? Check. LA river bed from "Drive"?? Check! It's just so annoying and lazy. There's no action or even good dialogue, mainly illustrative shots of locations and sometimes naked women. There's no even good sex in this movie. I mean, come on. How can you srsly make a sex scene with Natalie Portman boring? He manages to do just that. Arghhh, this movie pissed me off on so many levels.

Ah, I know one thing that got me excited for 10 seconds -- the scene in "Seven Veils" on Sunset. I always wanted to go and now I kinda know how it looks inside.