The future according to Spielberg

Rating: 6/10 (29 January 2007)

Yes, the movie looks breathtaking and intriguing, but what else can we expect from Steven Spielberg ? He is one of the most dominant box-office grabbers in the history of American movie-making, so its evident he has the most elaborate special effects-wizards, the most accomplished cinematographers, the best screenplay-writers, the top of box-office winning actors at his disposal... Is he also a genius of movie-making ? Is he the equal of Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Luis Bunuel ? Time will tell, i guess... In the meantime, we can enjoy his movies (and sure we do), but I have the feeling while watching his movies (and this is of course a personal feeling) to watch technical brilliance (not at all the sole achievement of Spielberg but the result of his stardom and therefore the willingness of every talent imaginable to contribute) and at the same time something empty, something which claim to have genius but in the end is only making money... Now when THAT is genius, SPIELBERG is the greatest, no doubt about that...