Mother?! Meh!

Rating: 6/10 (24 December 2018)

I just saw this movie and I must say that as much as I enjoyed the first half, it just got ridiculous on the last one. The name "Mother" doesn't really show why the movie got its name. Perhaps 'Le Miserables' would have been a better name. The movie has such a gripping start, which continues halfway through before it got ridiculous in the middle. There's no explanation as to why the writer's character, played by Javier Bardem, behaves this way. Every writer goes through this phase or writer's block at some point in their lives. The movie gets ridiculous when the guests behave strangely and start to smash things around the house. Suddenly, I felt the movie turned into some sort of 1940s war genre. When the baby got murdered, then the movie was too ridiculous to bear. If I had been seeing this one at the movie theater, I'd have felt that I was being ripped off. Jennifer Lawrence is awesome, and so is Javier Bardem, but they've done their job. Michelle Pfeiffer is my favorite gal. I love her. I must also give a shout-out to Ed Harris. So mature and so professional. Other than that, the movie gets weaker in the middle until the end.