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I havent seen this many perfectly good jokes fail to land since VIBES. Why? Bad chemistry, poor timing? Cast is fine, script is good, but by fifteen minutes in i thought so many movies are made but not released - WHY NOT THIS? Ah well, it looked nice.
I feel about Men the same way I did about Jordan Peele's Get Out - it's a horror movie that keys into fears that it would never occur to me to have. (I am an older white male.) Once you put yourself in the mindset of the protagonist, here a woman who has recently lost her husband under complicated circumstances, you can see that everything weird that happens BELONGS in the movie.
If you're like me you might miss that, and I feel fortunate that I didn't because I could use the perspective.
Besides all that, it's a tour-de-force for utility player Rory Kinnear, who is great in everything he does; and Alex Garland does a fantastic job of making us alert enough in the first thirty minutes so that we can spot the details later on. It's a movie that has to teach you how to watch it.
You probably have to be a little tired of less challenging films to really appreciate it though.
If you're like me you might miss that, and I feel fortunate that I didn't because I could use the perspective.
Besides all that, it's a tour-de-force for utility player Rory Kinnear, who is great in everything he does; and Alex Garland does a fantastic job of making us alert enough in the first thirty minutes so that we can spot the details later on. It's a movie that has to teach you how to watch it.
You probably have to be a little tired of less challenging films to really appreciate it though.