>Definitely need to watch it again to figure out just how
>petty my complaints are. I'm definitely not in the GD camp
>that's displeased with Kaluuya, he put his foot in this thing
>IMO. Sometimes I felt like O'Neil was just a little too nervy
>and obvious, or the script just isn't totally selling the
>scene or something. In the moment I'm thinking of when he says
>he last words to Hampton in the film, it just seems kind
>of...weird? I dunno, he just seems very worthy of suspicion a
>few times during this movie (another moment: when he's talking
>to George Sams) in a way that kinda slips into breezy biopic
>cliché sometimes. The sort of thing where a movie doesn't
>feel the need to convince you something happened because you
>already know it happened.
>
>
>A true nitpick: Kaluuya and Stanfield look substantially older
>than everyone else to the point I was shocked when I looked
>them up afterward and remembered they're 31 and 29
>respectively. I don't think it ever really comes across just
>how little removed from childhood these people were and misses
>a chance to hit a huge emotional beat on that level. I don't
>wish the performances were different though, so it's a hair
>and makeup thing maybe? Sheen's J. Edgar Hoover almost looks
>like a Scooby Doo villain in the wrong light.
>
>All that to say, I get why some critics are going the 4/5
>route with this. There's a lot to love here and a lot to be
>impressed by, but I didn't necessarily close the HBO Max app
>on my PS4 and think I'd just watched a movie of the year
>contender, either.
>
>Maybe I'll try to catch a matinée on Monday and cross my
>fingers nobody else has the same idea. There's a chance I just
>walked away from that first trailer hyping myself up for the
>best movie of our time, for our time I need the big screen to
>shake me free from.
>
>
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