Interesting To A Point

Rating: 6/10 (31 December 2018)

I'm not familiar with the director's other works but based on a solid cast and some good reviews I thought I'd give The Lobster a look. It definitely starts off strong and once the premise was revealed I was very curious to see how it would further develop. It certainly looks good and is visually attractive and interesting. The performance are all solid as well. The manner in which the film spoofs, satirizes, and questions modern relationships and our increasingly technical/machine/impersonal modes of communication was often times funny and thought-provoking. However, after about a third of the way into this story, I found it to grow a little thin and beginning to lose focus. It never really regained its sure footing and ends with more of a whimper than a bang.