Review of Sorry to Bother You (2018) by Sankya — 10 Oct 2018

I like Boots Riley the musician, but if his directorial debut is anything to go by, I am not a fan of Boots Riley the film-maker. This movie is a godawful mess. Good actors giving terrible performances with very thin, poorly fleshed out characters & visually the movie is a chore to watch.

I understood & am sympathetic to Riley's political message but this film only does a disservice to what he's trying to get across. It would have been much better if this was made with Riley as the screen-writer & someone like Mike Judge as the director.