Long Time Fan of Marty

Rating: 4/10 (16 November 2019)

This movie dissapointed me. I don't know if it was cause I saw how many amazing reviews there were or the countless good things I heard about the editing. This movie is slow. I mean so slow I had to write my first review on IMDb. There were some beautiful scenes when it came to the dialogue I.e the fish scene but because the actors in this movie are so old they are not able to do anything else other than just sit in a room and talk. I would say 3 hours of this movie is just Talking heads and the other half hour of this movie is people getting shot in the head. Marty is my favorite director but I'm not going to sugar coat this movie like everyone else seems to be doing. There needed to be a lot more cut from the movie and I'm not just talking about plot there are ungodly pauses where the actors Bob/Joe/Al are just staring off into space. This movie takes slow burn to a whole new level, Tarkovsky would even feel like this movie is paced terribly because there was so much that didn't matter. You could actually cut the first 45 minutes of the movie and the rest of it would still make complete sense. I hope people don't regard this as one of his best movies because that would be an injustice to his legendary films that changed cinema.