My God.
Zora? Where are you? Zora, come back PLEASE! Someone took your amazing, imaginative, BEAUTIFUL (I am not exaggerating: I absolutely love this novel) story and made a shitty movie that takes so many liberties, that basically the only thing that's common is the character names.
What we have is basically a Rescue 911 over-dramatization of every single plot point that the screenwriters thought valid, and invented about eleventy billion of their own. Then, they made the brilliant choice of casting Halle Berry, who drags down every scene she's in, which is all of them.... But I am going to cut Ms. Berry some slack: she has nothing to work with, script-wise (which is such a travesty considering the source material) and the direction is non-evident. It was clearly made-for-TV, which doesn't HAVE to mean it's subpar, but this doesn't even achieve that level. (The problem with the above is that it has obvious spaces where there were commercial breaks that gave an already muddled movie a really disjointed feeling.)
Seriously, I could go on and on, but this movie is so shitty, so I'm going to leave it at that.
Score: 2/10
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