Expensive looking failure.

Rating: 4/10 (3 April 2019)

This movie got so much hype but it really doesn't deliver.
Although it looks glossy and expensive and has a the sense of being modern classic of vintage style adventure, there's actually very little sense of much at stake. It's the mystery of some toy which leads us to some film makers.
Maybe it's trying to be an homage to cinema which I dig but ultimately it's then a movie about movies. Which is kind of lame. Cinema Paradiso was also an homage to cinema but also made itself about life and love and stuff.
It's also in English when it is set in fricking Paris.
One of those movies polished to perfection but just made of inferior stuff.
At one point Hugo wakes up from a surprise nightmare only to find he wakes up from another one. It's that kind of movie.