5/10

Rating: 5/10 (14 November 2014)

The is without doubt the weirdest and quirkiest experience at the theater I have had this year. I haven't already come around this movie in the sense that I have yet to understand if I simply didn't get the movie or if what I watched didn't appeal to me and wasn't all that good. I think the more probable case is the latter, but still even is this is true the movie definitely has highlights.
Micheal Fassbender. Micheal Fassbender. Oh my god Micheal Fassbender. I will not spoil anything of how the story of Frank goes down, but what I will say is that every second spent with Fassbender on screen was absolutely worth it. He brought life to a character that would have certainly come off as plain bad in the hands of a lesser actor and lets face it there really aren't that many actors as good as Fassbender, he is definitely one of my favorites. He added a truly engaging element with the moves he made with the mask on. On the top of that we have a movie that does not have a tangible story. I really didn't't take away anything. I have baffled at how everything was brought on with absolutely no sense of coherence. And I do understand that maybe that was the intent of the filmmakers, to make something that was "out" that was totally exaggerated, but the vibe wasn't clear. Yes the movie has many funny moments, but that's where the good moments stop. I'm not going to say that this movie is in anyway bad. None of the scenes or the events portrayed made me cringe, angry or bored , and that's something that happens very often in a bad movie, but I will not say that I was in anyway truly entertained for more that 2 consecutive minutes and in anyway had an emotional connection with any of the characters. There's a whole social media aspect used in the movie that took me out of it from second one, it felt so unnecessary. Moreover the photography was off for me. It didn't capture what I wanted to see, nor the vibe the movie was supposedly going for, it was very bleak and I didn't get the choices behind it. Plus the musical element of the movie isn't really good. There are maybe one and half decent songs, but for the majority it was just weird. And if you're telling "but James it was meant to be weird!" well I'll say that I didn't get it and that the movie didn't take me on enough for me to buy into the weirdness.