If you think Tom Hanks can’t make a bad movie, you haven’t seen it here. This is a deceptive, ridiculous and boring waste of time it may not be the first film in the new disgusting system called AI, but I pray it will be the last. The attraction is that it includes major players from the 1994 comedy smash hit Forrest Gump –Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, writer Eric Roth and director Robert Zemeckis—in a lame attempt to make more money by capitalizing on the film’s financial success using revolutionary new technology that cuts down on capital by eliminating the need to hire real actors. It’s a hateful experiment that backfires, because filling the screen with computer-generated robots defeats the whole purpose of making movies in the first place. Here he is not here, there, or anywhere at all. It’s like a pointless, meandering comic book that you can’t get past by looking at the pictures. Dare I say it’s also very boring?
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Based on a novel by Richard McGuire that I don’t intend to read, Here a long and pointless rant about the passage of time in one place defined over the years by an image that begins with dinosaurs, moves on to cowboys and Indians pointing an arrow at the invention of the wheel, and ends up with traffic horns and supermarkets—all seen through the eyes of one family. Enter a couple named Al and Rose (Paul Bettany and Kelly Reilly) who are looking for a house. They can’t afford the 1800-sq.-foot manse that was built in 1900 to replace the dinosaurs’ permanent residence in the area, but they buy it anyway and spend the rest of their lives in the same living room where the only thing that changes is the sofa. As well as avoiding the threat of cheap budgets, the movie saves a lot of money on sets.
Throughout the years, Al and Rose are joined by a growing family that includes their son Richard (a sleazy performance by Tom Hanks), his wife Margaret (the beautiful but wasted Robin Wright), and their daughter Vanessa (an up-and-coming actress from the director’s family with the terrifying monicker Zsa Mrs. Zemeckis). Richard is a character of indirect value in the family, although he is the first to go to college, and Margaret, on her 5th birthday, regrets all the things she has missed over the years, trapped in this kind of house (and this kind of film). She never went to college because she was too busy being a wife and mother, she never saw Paris in the spring because it was too far from home, and she never spent a night in Yellowstone National Park because it was always too crowded.
Rose dies, Al suffers a stroke and lives with Richard and Margaret, interfering with any chance of peace and togetherness in their autumn years by poking fun at what he did in World War II. Generations of friends and relatives come and go, no one seems to miss work, and it’s always Christmas. These people are rich, powerful, controversial, unaccomplished or tortured enough to maintain interest while the viewer expects them to change the world or hire an interior decorator. There is no tension, no schadenfreude, no difficulty is included in the story to show why it is expected to take care of about these people about two hours seemed like about two days. When Margaret finally leaves the whole family, we wonder what took her so long. Tom Hanks does the right thing in this film, convincingly aging from a high school student to a wrinkled old man near death in ways that the makeup department can’t solve, but he can’t create a cinematic. raison d’etre if not in the text. Although it is a film about the passage of time, there are no archival footage or scenes showing the intimacy of the relationship between the characters to explain why Here anything to boost enthusiasm for more movies about AI Color long, mysterious, intelligent, intelligent and absurd.
