Great direction and cinematography but a bad script

Rating: 4/10 (28 November 2019)

Long story short my title says it all. Alfonso Cuaron has masterful direction with long takes and excellent movement, followed up by beautiful cinematography but it's sadly wasted on a dumb script. The characters are thin, dialogue is cheeky and wooden, and the events that occur just have you asking questions. It's not the events that occur to move the plot forward but it's like the Cuaron brothers decided to shove dumb action scenes in this movie to build tension, when this could've been put towards the characters. Also the music is the most generic score I've heard in a big budget movie like this, it sounds like they bought it off a stock music website.
Overall this movie isn't really worth the watch other than how they filmed it, putting the camera in creative spots.