Review of The Longest Week (2014) by Eric H — 04 Oct 2014

Review:

I didn't really enjoy this movie! I found it quite boring and uninteresting. The storyline, which is about a womanising, spoilt brat who suddenly gets his house and allowance taken from him due to his parents splitting up, was pompous and it just seemed to drag after a while. The director chose to stick with the love element by introducing a lady that he meets on the train who just happens to be his best friends date. After falling completely head over heels for the girl, even though his best friend tells him to stay away from her, they end up moving in together after being kicked out of his best friends apartment. When his secret finally comes out about him having no money, she finally leaves him and he ends up back at his best friends house. Basically, I got bored of the film after a while, but the acting wasn't bad and I liked the morality at the end. The narrating through the film, which reminded me of the Royal Tenenbaums, was OK but the director could have easily cut out some of the love story and concentrated on how losing everything for a week had changed his life except for using the narrator to fill in the gaps at the end, but that's just my personally opinion. Average!

Round-Up:

At 45, Jason Bateman has had quite a good career to date, with movies like Horrible Bosses, Identity Thief, The Switch and the Change-up to name a few, but he still hasn't become a household name. He doesn't really have a unique acting style, but he does have screen charisma which works in movies like Hancock and Juno. In this film, I found his character to be pretty dull but that's not down to his acting. He basically just done what was required by the director. Anyway the movie is watchable but you have to be in the right mood to watch it because it's very one toned.

Budget: $15million.

Worldwide Gross: N\A.

I recommend this movie to people who are into there black comedies about a man who loses everything and ends up falling in love with his best friends girl. 4/10.