Review of Uncut Gems (2019) by Faxthtax — 02 Feb 2020

I had lot of expectation of this one. I so wanted to like this movie, and I so wanted Sandler to really do something decent and break out of his comedy attire. Well, he does that but, sadly the movie was a lot of noise from the start. The first part of the movie where credits plastered the scenes, I was curious if all that chaotic shouting of lines and that god awful 80´s Vangelis-carbon-copy score drowning everything else was the staple for this movie, I was partially correct.

At time the movie takes a breather, but it is not long before it´s going at it again.

To be honest, I scrubbed trough the last half. I was getting stressed out with a headache of the constant shouting, intrusive music and the messed up cutting.

In the end I felt a little sorry for Adam Sandler. He does NOTHING wrong in his role, But with that script and soundtrack and everybody running around being idiots, what can you do but feel for the guy. He had an ultimate chance, with praised directors on the up, but sadly got sidelined by this mess. There is plenty done right, but equally amount done wrong as well, which is why I end up rolling out a 5/10. Sad.