Classical Filmmaking

Rating: 8/10 (13 November 2017)

The scope is massive without it being a stupid brain-deadening superhero movie (God, someone shoot Marvel and DC dead...video games come to life are not FILMS!!). This is real filmmakers making a real film, and by all critics who've bashed this film on this site have overlooked, it is as patient of a film you will see. And if we're to wish pure storytelling to exist in the future, this is a reason to hold it tightly to your chest. Instead of beating the drum to comic book heroes. In this case it is a simple detective tale with characters stuck together in order to solve crime. Director Kenneth Brannagh seems to have an affinity towards both the source material and the Sidney Lumet 1974 version (the train full of stars). So what if you knew the answer to the who-dun-it. You know how most Thor movies end (here's the hint, with your brain melted and fat from stupidity). This film is photographed as old Hollywood. Something desperately missing are, less cuts and more staging. This is the film that showcases it with a great deal of zeal. It's exciting to see camera angles from the heavens that peep in on a intimate conversation. THIS is filmmaking. Or that we see multiple characters introduced throughout the train as background characters. Or that there is a coziness to this like playing the board game "Clue." And to top it all off...there is a deeper idea with the detective's story that wasn't in the 1974 version. Can I defend this to the simpleminded film goers today who lambasted this film for everything making films is all about. Oh right, most of you have or will never make a film in your lives. That's why you watch movies and not films. See this movie and re-calibrate your compass to how they're suppose to be made.