The Disaster Artist - Spoiler Free Review

Rating: 10/10 (14 September 2018)

I'm just going to start off with a quick disclaimer here, if you are one of those people who has been living under a rock and has not seen at least the highlights of the movie 'The Room', then please don't watch this film...you freaken go watch 'The Room' IMMEDIATELY and THEN you see this film. This movie ended what was undoubtedly the worst year and possibly the worst month of my life and ended it on an actual high note. I'm honestly not even sure where to start with this; James Franco plays the infamous actor/director/writer/producer Tommy Wiseau and brings him to life in a way that I have never seen on film, there isn't a single moment in this film where it feels like James Franco playing a part, you feel like Tommy Wiseau has returned to the screen to play himself: his voice, his mannerisms...hell this movie ends with side by side comparisons to this and scenes from 'The Room' and there were times where I had to concentrate to tell Wiseau and Franco apart. This is an Oscar-worthy performance in the likes that I haven't seen in a while and it's heartbreaking that he won't actually win it. Dave Franco too offers a brilliant performance in bringing to life straight man Greg Sistero, real-life best friend of Tommy Wiseau, who is caught up in a situation where he has to choose between his own career and his loyalty to Wiseau, something that becomes increasingly harder as Wiseau's demands become more and more insane and Wiseau becomes constantly more impossible to work with. This movie, in the tradition of Tim Burton's Ed Wood, is filmmaking at it's very finest: it takes a lot for a movie to make me laugh out loud even once, but for me to laugh as much as I did during this film...that's unheard of. The movie balances the comedy and drama perfectly, painting a true depiction of the events surrounding the making of 'The Room', obviously not always putting Wiseau in the best light, but at the same time never representing him unfairly and doing a brilliant job of justifying his actions without approving them. I could actually go on about this movie all day, but instead, I'm now going to set my laptop up next to my workstation, start working and watch this again while I do, because this movie I will be watching again and again and again...and now I'm going to do something that I NEVER thought I would, OFFICIAL RATING:10 STARS, best movie I saw in 2017 and an immediate candidate for my top 20 favourite movies of all time. Franco brothers: I applaud you.