天鹅绒圆锯

这部电影几乎工作……和I want it to work, but it just doesn't. Gyllenhaal is performing his LA snottiest best as is Russo, but I was just not convinced by Ashton's portrayal. I found her to be one note, dull, and I could not understand any of her character's motivations, and considering she is in A LOT of scenes it affected the flow of the film. Also, the story becomes a bit predictable on top of being parodic and Scream-like. A bit gratuitously gruesome for my personal taste there are still some good performances and the black comedy elements work well.

天鹅绒圆锯是发人深省的,但不是一个好方法。我无法停止思考整个113分钟的运行时;只有确保如果我真的得到什么,或者情节是如此深刻和聪明,我只看到它的表面。对话听起来非常复杂,一切都很时尚。唉,这部电影完全是自命不凡,这并不像它试图一半聪明。这部电影只是喜欢overstylize虽然试图分散你从overly-expository对话,和它的不连贯的剧情。但这只是冰山一角!只有5分钟通过这部电影,我能看出天鹅绒圆锯只不过是一个典型的Netflix电影;不喜欢罗马,但是更像哑巴。生产设计,例如,非常便宜和穷人(考虑到这部电影是对艺术),使电影看起来更像一集比一个实际的电影电视剧。 There are some stunning colorful shots, though. Thanks in large part to the cinematographer Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood). In the first 10 minutes we are introduced to many characters on after another who I wish if I cared about any of them. Aside from Josephina, played by Zawe Ashton, I was hardly invested in any of the characters. The stellar cast is not to blame of course; Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, and Toni Collette, they really did their best. What's worse than the overabundance of characters, whom I didn't care about, is that almost half of them are pretty much needless and don't have much to add to the story. Dan Gilroy's use of foreshadowing is as unsubtle as it gets. I mean he abruptly quite literally focuses on particular things that would have a major role in the plot later on. Some of the images Gilroy throws right in your face are just for a satirical purpose. By the way, Velvet Buzzsaw falls completely flat as a satirical movie, If you haven't already expected that. Its satire is blatantly toothless and blunt. The way Gilroy moves between the characters is quite impressive. It's slick, and also make you feel as if all the characters are suspicious, and always keep an eye on each other. As a horror film, Velvet Buzzsaw doesn't have many horror elements, except some "scary" scenes and jumpscares scattered throughout the second half that are as laughably cheap as those you see in trashy dumb slasher horror flicks. As a result, the movie has a painfully inconsistent tone. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't interested at some point in the story, and wanted to know what would happen. Nevertheless, that was only for about 10 minutes in the second act, and then the movie lost me again pretty quick. I can't express how frustrated and underwhelmed I am, especially when the movie marks the second collaboration between one of my all-time favorite actors Jake Gyllenhaal and the talented filmmaker Dan Gilroy, after the first movie they made together, Nightcrawler, which is one of my all-time favorites, and one of the few movies I gave them the perfect score. It's not the first time though for Gilroy to disappoint me, for he did back in 2017 with his mediocre film, Roman J. Israel, Esq. Low your expectations, because Velvet Buzzsaw is yet another Netflix movie. (4/10)