Review of The Longest Week (2014) by Sarah M — 13 Aug 2016

I usually like all of these actors but none of them had anything worthwhile to work with, and all played such over-privileged self important twats that the whole thing was just a struggle.

Jason Bateman's character was just an a-hole man-child with no redeeming features, Olivia Wilde's character was insipid and wore awful fake eyelashes the whole time, and Billy Crudup's character was so underwritten he barely existed.

The director clearly wishes he was either Woody Allen (constant self-important verbosity) or Wes Anderson (quirky formalistic shot composition)... or both. One might think it was light-hearted homage were it not taking itself so seriously.

I remember the narrator describing Olivia Wilde's first reaction to Jason Bateman's character saying something like "his pseudo-intellectualism was wearing thin", which pretty much describes my reaction to the whole film.