![]() ![]() Then there's Karen's abusive husband - a man who unaware of the price on his head. Lane barely gets any screen time (her character serves just one, simple purpose), Hounsou is the closest thing to a voice of morality in this film and Strong's character seems to be from another movie. While it turns out there's some basis for some of the odd, stilted acting choices, it remains worth nothing how silly and borderline camp Hathaway's performance is at times. ![]() There's no less than four Academy Award nominated actors featured prominently in "Serenity" - and no one performance in this film can even be described as good (some are outright cartoonish). Any potentially thought-provoking implications of the tantalizing plot twist are completely abandoned - rendering the twist as just a hollow and stupid plot device. So instead, Knight's script threw in a plot twist that neither substantially progresses the plot nor does it add much depth. The moral dilemma of a desperate man, with every reason to kill man yet is internally conflicted with taking a life, was clearly deemed not dramatic enough. so the screenplay just added a contrived plot twist to invent the silliest roadblock for Baker. And it almost feels as if the story started out as a tense noir drama - but writer-director Steven Knight could not come up with a compelling reason why Baker wouldn't just kill Frank. "Serenity" could have been a fine little drama had it been content with being a committed and sincere "sexy thriller" - a simple three-character drama involving temptation, money and murder. The reveal is not "head scratching" in the sense of "whoa - that's makes you think man" but more in the vein of "why is any of this happening and who thought this plot turn was a good idea?" ![]() At one point, McConaughey's character refers to his own theories about the plot twist as "intellectually challenging" - and it's just the opposite. The movie's twist is head-scratching in the worst way possible. The film hints that something elusive is off-kilter - something mostly alluded to through Baker's mysterious visions. The film is marketed and even presented initially as a "sexy thriller," yet there's another layer on top of those genre flick - an element that supposedly permeates every facet of the story. This movie's massive twist (which will not be revealed in this review) is as pointless as it is ridiculous. Djimon Hounsou, Diane Lane and Jeremy Strong also star. In short: Fishing boat captain Baker Dill ( Matthew McConaughey) struggles with strange visions and money problems when his ex-wife Karen ( Anne Hathaway) suddenly appears, offering Baker $10 million to kill her abusive husband Frank ( Jason Clarke). 25) - which is unfair to this film's numerous missteps and poor choices. An ill-conceived and poorly executed big plot reveal eclipses the many failings of the noir drama " Serenity" (in theaters nationwide Jan. ![]()
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