Review of Masterminds (2016) by Frame R — 03 Apr 2018
Damn! How I despise these comedies that are released each year which you know are not going to be innovative but you still hope you'd get some laughs out of it nonetheless. This one doesn't even accomplish that.
.. No wonder that the comedy genre is currently the least acclaimed (camon, there's 1 to 2 great actual comedies each year comparing to drama's countless solid offerings). This film feels like an overlong SNL skit with an underused Kate McKinnon, a truly unfunny Zach Gali-I-give-up-couldnt-you-just-picked-a-stage-name with film's worst accent and Wiig actually being great, as usually (but her eyes scream to be freed from the screen, though).
The characters are so underdeveloped that everyone's convinced to do a robbery in 30 seconds! No surprise that 90% of the jokes fall flat and the ones with potential are spoiled in the trailer. I do have to say it's consistent: for example, the characters are plain bad and the dialogue is there to match them, the directing is poor and the soundtrack harmoniously concurs, and so on and so forth.
Do yourself a favor and go watch... anything else, really.
This review of Masterminds (2016) was written by Frame R on 03 April 2018.
Masterminds has generally received mixed reviews.
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