Darren Aronofsky hates babies.

Rating: 6/10 (20 September 2017)

First Noah nor this.. but oh well I really do not want to go too deep into detail. Uh. Well. I usually like mysteries. I like movies with limited location when tension is building up between different characters - a kind of tension that is about the explode. And the first half of the film I did get exactly that. Too bad that the conclusion was too supernatural, too "poetic" (not sure if that is the right word to describe That. ) I mean you cannot expect a director like Darren Aronofsky to go straight forward (well except for that his little bible epic ), but this was just too out of place. The cast was fabulous the performances mostly great. Jennifer Lawrence gave the rawest performance of her performance and she really was good with the thin character given to her (Aronofsky was more interested in constant close ups of her face than really developing her character). Ed Harris was great and it was wonderful to see him in a role like this again. He did well. Michelle Pfeiffer was just as good and it was a perfect comeback for both of them but their potential was not really used by Aronofsky. Actually their character literally went nowhere and were not as essential to the story as they deserved to be. Still the part of the movie where they were in was by far the best and most interesting. I am not too sure what to think about Javier Bardem. He was rather bland. His character was the least developed and at the end they failed to give him meaning. It was a boring character. Bardem tried to make it interesting but couldn't save it. Don't get me wrong, the film makes sense and I understood it.. it was just too silly, too forced and too pretentious. He should have kept up with the first half and think about a more natural and interesting conclusion. Whatever.. worth to see for some good actors in mostly good performances. The production design is fine as is the cinematography and some of the editing. Nothing award worthy tho.