[star rating=”2″] COLOSSAL. Directed by Nacho Vigalondo, with Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowel.
MEGAN FURNISS reviews
I give Colossal two stars. One is for the movie being short and the other is for the title, which describes the movie’s failure very accurately.
I don’t usually go into a movie totally blind, but I went to the press screening of another film, and there was a problem with the hard drive so it was going to start late and I didn’t have the extra hour, so I snuck in to Colossal since it was starting.
I needed to have chosen not to see this film. I needed to have read about it and not gone. The plot (if you can call the utterly nonsensical improbable and ridiculous sequence of events that) is party girl Olivia is booted out of her boyfriend’s in NYC and goes back to the small hellhole she grew up in, and when she is drunk at a specific time of day in the park, the monster version of her appears and destroys Seoul, Korea.
As human and monster
Then there is her school friend who turns psycho/robot. She has to fight and win, as human and monster.
There is nothing that redeems this total waste of time. Anne Hathaway is full of breathing and gloopy eyed non-blinking staring. The naturalistic and rambling bar scenes are contrasted with completely nonsensical, bad special effect scenes, self-indulgent drunk scenes, ridiculously incomplete and rubbish flashbacks, and pathetic crowds of Koreans who go back to get themselves killed, night after night.
Somehow this movie has been hyped as hilarious, bizarre, explosive and brilliant. Not for me. I kept on hoping the leads would die.
What: Colossal
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