I am not even going to hide this: I love Gael Garcia Bernal. I admit that he's had some lemons (The King) but he's had some excellent stuff as well (e.g. Science of Sleep).
But this movie is the ultimate lemon.
Warning: I am about to spoil the movie - but I'd like to think of this as public service. This movie is about the relationship of two people stumbling as they go about hiking in the mountains of Georgia. In reality, it's more like: a movie about two people as they go about hiking in Georgia. As in, seriously, NOTHING happens in the first 56 minutes of the movie, other than the two hiking and chatting to the locals and taking pictures. You can be late for 45 minutes and STILL be in touch with what the movie is all about.
And they get into the conflict and the truth about the guy comes out. It's not really a big revelation - but if you had nodded to sleep for two seconds, then you would have missed it. And everything APPARENTLY falls apart after that... except that part comes across quite poorly in the next 60 minutes.
Yes, this movie is two hours long. It makes Star Wars: Phantom Menace GRIPPING in comparison. Bloody Showgirls was more interesting than this.
The only thing that falls apart in this movie is the patience of the audience. No movie, despite its star, deserves to drag the audience through this drab excuse for Georgia tourism. Admittedly, yes, Georgia has wonderful scenery and for that, I may even vote for it in the 2013 Eurovision... but that is no excuse for this movie which does not deserve a screening in the local arthouse cinema - much more in the Sydney Film Festival.
"The Loneliest Planet" = 0 slice.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
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