Review of You Were Never Really Here (2017) by Moviemitch96 — 19 Apr 2018
What started out as such a smooth, intriguing, and flat out cool and promising first half hour quickly went downhill from there for me unfortunately. The good: Joaquin Phoenix and the cool and eerie soundtrack, as well as some 'Taxi Driver' and 'Drive' vibes.
The bad: like I said, the first half hour had me so hooked and excited, but after that, the film became very scattershot and aimless, and most of the violent scenes weren't even all that violent or exciting, as it'd always cut away or simply only show the aftermath or the bodies afterwards.
Where's the fun in that? And lastly, the ending felt much too open-ended to me, which isn't always a problem for me, but it just didn't work well at all for this film in my opinion. Overall, it was an intriguing concept and had such a cool vibe to it, especially in its first half hour, but it couldn't really keep that momentum or vibe for me much at all after that.
This review of You Were Never Really Here (2017) was written by Moviemitch96 on 19 Apr 2018.
You Were Never Really Here has generally received positive reviews.
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