A comic masterpiece

Rating: 1/10 (27 February 2016)

Was it wrong of me to laugh? I just couldn't help but see the protagonist as the Wile E Coyote, with that same stupid wide-eyed look of fear and pain on his face during every action scene. And without giving anything away, one fight scene is Tom and Jerry / Itchy and Scratchy at their finest. Even the fans of this movie surely won't be able to deny that.
Perhaps if I hadn't seen the exact same expressions on Leo's face in the quaalude-fueled fight scene in The Wolf Of Wall Street, I wouldn't have been prompted to laugh so hard. Mind you, it was the same dumb expressions he had in The Aviator that preceded it, and I laughed then too, also inappropriately, I later discovered. And if you weren't playing for thigh-slapping laughs, Alejandro, why did you have the bear roll down the gully and land on top of him? Comedic genius.
I may have even felt bad for laughing if I had some compassion for Glass. But when he's making every misfortune to befall him just so damn hilarious, it's hard to see him in any real threat or pain. Being a monosyllabic ape didn't help either.
In about 24 hours, this movie, its director and its star will win Academy Awards. Which will achieve exactly what the sole intention was from the moment it was conceived. Just as well, because it certainly wasn't entertainment. Although to be fair, I think there's a whole subculture about to pop up of devising 'secret soundtracks' for this movie, where you turn the sound down and replace it with something else instead. Those in the know are surely trawling the Loony Tunes archives as I write.