Serenity
is a very creepy neo-noir that wants to be something else? My only question is
what. The Matrix .5? (Another) One Flu Over the Cookoo’s Nest?
There
are plot holes big enough to drive a long-haul truck through. Anne Hathaway
plays the wayward wife of a drug lord, or not(?!) who cooks up a scheme right
out of a 1940s noir. And then, the late 2010s show up, because reasons. Mathew
McConaughey plays a role that could have been written for Humphrey Bogart. And
then, those pesky 2010s showed up. Anne Hathaway was either too young, or in
certain parts, too old? I mean, I’m no fool, but come on! They didn’t go to
school together! Either change a few lines, or get a lady he could have
actually sat in that geography class with! The movie needs to be longer. It’s
like we walk into the movie thirty minutes in. Their lack of backstory is soooo
odd. Until they literally invent a twist just to explain an epic brain cramp
that the writer had.
I
mean, when Game of Thrones had bad writing, they at least didn’t try to make it
make sense. They at least had the decency to own the cray cray, not to turn it
into The Matrix .5!
