Dreadfully silly, self important, failure ... On all levels

Rating: 2/10 (19 December 2017)

Aronofsky wrote a ridiculous comedy horror film but didn't realise and thought it was a drama ... So we have one of the most absurd and ridiculous pieces of self important cinema that we have seen in years ... Unfortunately of course it isn't good enough to be bad enough to be funny ... What we get is a silly lot of unrealistic people floundering about in a narrative that just doesn't work in any way ... Bardem, Harris and Pfeiffer know how to act and are fine in their scenes, but the writing is so blatantly stupid that it makes no difference ... Jennifer Lawrence is ok but quite frankly she reached her peak in her early career and has made some really crap choices in the films she's chosen ... Its all been downhill since Winters Bone really ... The film just gets more and more absurd, which would be fine, if the characters were at all likeable or relatable to, but they aren't ... Personally I wish they'd all been killed off in their first scene, then I wouldn't have had to waste so much time sitting through this stinker expecting the director of "Black Swan" ( which I loved ) to pull off something really clever and make the end a revelation ... He didn't ... Not even close