Review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) by Compi24 — 19 Jul 2022
When it isn't spinning its relatively safe yarn, "Where The Crawdads Sing" is a film that does take risks. Unfortunately, these risks aren't only to the film's detriment in a character-based manner, but in a borderline ethical one as well.
That murkiness isn't helped by the true-to-life shadiness surrounding the author of the novel which this film is adapted from. Honestly, it says a lot when I leave a movie wishing it had stuck to the dull, derivative and by-the-numbers trajectory it set upon for its first hour and fifty-five minutes.
At least with that I could've walked away disappointed and not downright insulted, which is what I'm feeling like now. Try as the performers and filmmakers might, it sounds to me like this project might've been a bit too much of a heavy lift to adapt to screen.
Not for me.
This review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) was written by Compi24 on 19 July 2022.
Where the Crawdads Sing has generally received positive reviews.
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