Review of The Florida Project (2017) by Karan O — 16 Oct 2017

This is a pretentious self grandiose, vacuous, badly directed, badly (co)written, badly acted, badly produced movie that is all too happy with its own importance ! I don't want to give it any stars, but I'm afraid if I don't , people will not notice my review.

I mean, can we institute negative stars for movies that wasted our time? From the very first shot where the camera lingers for what feels like an eternity on a pink wall, seemingly so that Mr Baker can enjoy seeing his own name repeated in various roles, you know that this is a work of a novice filmmaker that above all is in love with his own importance and has never shot a millimeter of film he himself hasn't adored.

The movie is so full of cliches and stereotypes that you immediately know where it's going and how it's going to end up. The critics and audiences can love it all they want, but this is a great example of bad movie making in all aspects of the term .

One of the worst movies of all time. Ironically the best shot of the movie is when Mr Defoe is smoking a cigarette at sunset, obviously thinking about life. It's all too obvious that the actor is thinking "How did I end up in this junk? What happened to my career?", adding the only palpable sense of irony to an otherwise terrible movie.

Someone please tell Mr Baker that having 6 year olds making obscene gestures or using four letter words , does not making them endearing. And portraying the less fortunate members of society in the shadows of Disney World dies not make the irony more palpable, just more predictable and cliche.

The name Florida Project , tells you all you want to know about this terrible movie. Save your money and if you have to, watch it on Kodi and thank me later!