The most striking thing about this movie is the how unsubtle and painfully unambiguous the dialogue is. Celebrity mouth pieces appear on-set to relate point after laboured point, driven home with a mallet until the final blow; a final slogan explaining what the preceding text meant just in case you hadn't grasped it. I'm used to being spoon-fed by the Hollywood machine but would never have expected it from the likes of Bob Dylan.
Every celebrity in the picture talks in the same monotonous laboured prose giving the feeling that the whole movie consists of paper *celebrity* cut-outs brought to life by a tired narrator. You could randomly swap the celebrities lines around with each other and you wouldn't know the difference. If this was the intention then it doesn't make for an interesting movie unless it has something new to say, and it doesn't. Maybe the writers thought the same as I did after the initial screening, and why they decided to use the pseudonyms; Sergei Petrov and Rene Fontaine for the writing credits instead of their own names.
Every celebrity in the picture talks in the same monotonous laboured prose giving the feeling that the whole movie consists of paper *celebrity* cut-outs brought to life by a tired narrator. You could randomly swap the celebrities lines around with each other and you wouldn't know the difference. If this was the intention then it doesn't make for an interesting movie unless it has something new to say, and it doesn't. Maybe the writers thought the same as I did after the initial screening, and why they decided to use the pseudonyms; Sergei Petrov and Rene Fontaine for the writing credits instead of their own names.