In the Shadow of the Moon. Jim Mickle. 2019. ☆☆☆☆☆★
Netlix didn’t release much over the summer, but now suddenly there’s a whole bunch of stuff! Let’s get started.
Well, that’s a strange way to start a movie. With a straight-up scientific voiceover that explains the concept of the movie. (It’s telepathy.)
OH!!!! The voiceover came from the computer, not the Apple TV! It’s totally unrelated! But it seemed to work perfectly! There was no talking in this movie for the first seven minutes, and there was no music or anything on the voiceover thing. Where did that come from? Oh! Crimes of the Future! By Cronenberg!
Tee hee.
How Cronenbergish.
So all those people getting nose bleeds did not have anything to do with telepathy?
*resets brain*
OK, this is a serial killer/cop buddy movie.
I AM DISAPPOINT.
However, this is pretty likeable. The aforementioned buddies have pretty good chemistry, and while the banter isn’t scintillating or anything, it’s entertaining enough.
[some time passes]
OK, I’ll stop talking now, because the less you know about what this movie is about, the better. The initial voiceover actually befuddlement probably helped with the entire experience being entertaining, but… I was entertained. It’s a surprisingly fresh movie.
Not that it doesn’t have faults: There are so many cliches used in the plot (of which I will mention nothing) that it’s a bit eye-roll inducing at points, and I did guess the Big Plot Twist immediately after I realised that this was a movie with a Big Plot Twist, and the movie doesn’t make much sense, but still: Very original.
I added a ☆ for the politics.
This post is part of the NFLX2019 blog series.