Review of Molly's Game (2017) by Thedoomedhell — 05 Feb 2021
Molly's game is interesting as a movie because it does two things:
- it is conscious of its book adaptation throughout the movie.
- it tells a convincing story of a supposed truthful one. The pros: - half decent acting (from celebrity actors)Molly's game is interesting as a movie because it does two things:
- it is conscious of its book adaptation throughout the movie.
- it tells a convincing story of a supposed truthful one.
The pros:
- half decent acting (from celebrity actors).
- screenplay acceptible.
- lots of interesting timeline shifting (flashbacks mostly).
- story is relatively good.
The cons:
- most characters feel like stereotypes.
- for some reason, half the characters will speak monotonely and with long paragraphs, affects the acting a lot.
- *incoming* fake psychiatric session scene.
- story/marketing said it was a true story, details are exaggerated during movie duration to help the movie as a drama.
- over-dramatisation, parts where events happen without explanation just to set a dramatic tone.
Overall, it's a good movie. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who enjoys cinematography, or acton flicks, or even political flicks, but it's an acceptible drama. This is definitely a movie intended for girls. There's very little in terms of stakes, there's a lot of weird "I can do it and men can't" scenes and scenes of "I'm hot and attractive so I'm irresistable to men" type stuff. Good feminist movie, feels overall like a "girl in a man's world" movie. So if you like that kind of stuff, this is not a half-bad version of that.
This review of Molly's Game (2017) was written by Thedoomedhell on 05 February 2021.
Molly's Game has generally received positive reviews.
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