I have never heard of indieWIRE.com or of the movie The Messenger.
The review starts where it should end. Jeff Reichert has a very nice closing statment right at the begining of the review which told me everything I needed to know about the movie save for a little information about an actual plot. (Un)fortunately Mr. Reichart proceeds to a far too detailed synopsis of the movie, which seems par for the course in todays online reviews where space is no longer an issue. After the bloated synopsis we get a somewhat positive review of director Oren Moverman's choices.
The reviewer is unclear on whether he thinks this was a good movie or an adequate one which extends to his review. Because I of this I am extremely unclear of this. Mr. Reichert basically says in the last paragraph this movie did not do things wrong rather than do things right. The conclusion I come to is that Mr. Reichert wanted to like the movie because of this but couldn't. With out knowing his other work I don't know if the verbose wording is a symptom of this or a style choice. Perhaps it would have been better to give a bad review than to write one.
The review starts where it should end. Jeff Reichert has a very nice closing statment right at the begining of the review which told me everything I needed to know about the movie save for a little information about an actual plot. (Un)fortunately Mr. Reichart proceeds to a far too detailed synopsis of the movie, which seems par for the course in todays online reviews where space is no longer an issue. After the bloated synopsis we get a somewhat positive review of director Oren Moverman's choices.
The reviewer is unclear on whether he thinks this was a good movie or an adequate one which extends to his review. Because I of this I am extremely unclear of this. Mr. Reichert basically says in the last paragraph this movie did not do things wrong rather than do things right. The conclusion I come to is that Mr. Reichert wanted to like the movie because of this but couldn't. With out knowing his other work I don't know if the verbose wording is a symptom of this or a style choice. Perhaps it would have been better to give a bad review than to write one.
