Review of The Descendants (2011) by Twizzler — 17 Dec 2011
Hard to fathom the slew of 100 marks by professional reviewers for this film. All actors great. Story with undeveloped potential, bland instead of brilliant. We were dropped into this melodrama and given insufficient reasons to care about outcome but it's worse than that: we knew outcome of the land decision and the comatose wife, all telegraphed well in advance.
When Matt leans over his wife to say goodbye to his best friend, his pain etc, it's a beautiful speech and absolutely without foundation in what we've been let in on for backstory. How hard would it be to show us some of this love in flashbacks.
Same for her relationship with her daughters. Who were these people, really? Read the book, I guess.
This review of The Descendants (2011) was written by Twizzler on 17 Dec 2011.
The Descendants has generally received very positive reviews.
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