Bland and boring, as usual Cast: Nanoka Hara, Hokuto Matsumura, Eri Fukatsu, Shota Sometani, Sairi Ito, Kotone Hanase Rating: 1.5* Mak...
Bland and boring, as usual
Cast: Nanoka Hara, Hokuto Matsumura, Eri
Fukatsu, Shota Sometani, Sairi Ito, Kotone Hanase
Rating: 1.5*
Makoto Shinkai's latest affair with
filmmaking is just like his other films, bland and boring for the most part. Watching
it in IMAX may have you marvelling at the animation for the first few minutes
but then it soon becomes the same old thing seen in his earlier films like Your
Name and Five Centimeters Per Second.
Suzume, 17, loses her mother as a little
girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity
unleashes a calamity that endangers the entire population of Japan, and so
Suzume embarks on a journey to set things right.
Shinkai's filmmaking and visual style seem
a mix of J.J. Abrams and Christopher Nolan. The dialogues are childish and so
is the love story. From the music, and the screenplay to the characters, nothing is
effective in this excessively long film. The cat is extremely irritating and so
are all the other characters. Shinkai's is at his worst with amateurish
direction. A real waste of time and effort, this is one film you had best avoid.
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