Steven Knight brought me to watch this film. A man who wrote a
spectacular Eastern Promises and the same Redemption, which he also directed.
His new work Serenity promised to be a neo-noir story happened on far island.
If well know this genre and it films, trailers could raise a feel about predictability,
but a truth can know only when you’ll watch it.
In Serenity can find elements of neo-noir and hitchcockian, but I’m not consider
film to any of these genres. Steven Knight is talking about it by conversations
of his written characters and sometimes he successfully is showing it in
directing. However, he didn’t reach this ambience, only tried. Knight had a
good cinematographer, but he always failed when wanted to give a feel of
neo-noir. These moments were awkward in directing. When I was watching Serenity,
I couldn’t recognize Knight of his previous works. This is because he hadn’t
balance in directing and due to a built on patterns a simplistic plot.
What did really Knight want with his screenplay? Maybe his aim was to
write a predictable story and surprise audience in the ending twist or he didn’t
think that the story predictable? If you want to guess this twist, you must
turn off a logic. It goes against sense of the plot and it would be better about
saddened woman, which in really hides her motifs.
Matthew McConaughey, who played a titular role, always great despite how
is inferior a film as can see it in Serenity. Acting of Anne Hathaway doesn’t
fit for a femme fatale and for her heroine with openly fake blonde hair who she
really is, because it always went over. In whole performances, I didn’t like only
two guys, who played wealthy men in introduction, which were showing absolutely
acting absence on backstage and Djimon Hounsou, who sometimes was making a
good, but I didn’t see his character and partially it is from Knight’s
screenplay.
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