2 Advanced previews in 2 days lucky me. Its time for me to complete the summer of Pascal. Film 3 of 3, Eddington if im honest your the one im most intrigued about so please dont disappoint me a little like the last Ari film please.

Its not often something is obvious when i walk into a cinema especially an advanced screening but unless a woman was in a couple, i was the only odd one. It was mainly guys. I even started chatting next to the guy next to me (he was gay) but its never been that obvious before. Id say it was 60% full. This isnt going to be for everyone.

Trailers, Life of Chuck, The long walk, The smashing machine, Caught Stealing, The roses & One battle after another (which now finally has a date at last woohoo).

& then the film started… That was very weird in good & bad ways.

Lets get our man out of the way first (seem to be typing that a lot at the moment & then i wont type it for ages now).
Mayor Ted Garcia, is a very clever character. I didnt know how i would feel about him & if there was more to him or not, but the way in which Pedro delivered his lines & that iconic slap (when did you last feel like a plastic bag?) was brilliant. He looked mayoral.
The video was hilarious for re-election.
Also was he in that yellow top & grey sweats making tea out of a tea pot just for me? It felt like it.
Also Ted Garcia is tattooed. He has the veronica tattoo. It is blink & you miss it but its now there for everyone to see, that made my heart melt. I just wish Ted had been given a bit more to do at some points. I get its not his story but for second billing, he could have had more.

Okay im done with our man now, time for the rest of it…

People gasped at a couple of points. The first one i was shocked not more people saw coming. Maybe i was half expecting it, but the guy next to me actually swore & was startled. The last one made me jump a little. & then there was a moment which after all the seriousness made everyone laugh & took us all out of the film a little.

The film has a couple of really strong messages its trying to get across. About covid, health, power, vulnerability, racism, protest & free speech. However it never deals with one fully enough. It kind of skirts around all of them to give you a real true message. Its like they went this was everything that happened during lockdown lets try & get them all into the film to make people see things, but only did one thing well. It then just as it starts to make a point goes batshit crazy for the end by having the 20 of the last 25 minutes of the film being completely different from the rest of the film which really didnt help its cause for its message.

The one part it did tell us about well is conspiracy theories & doom scrolling. Were all guilty of it be honest people we all are, Covid made us all more phone & social media addicts not for the better & now with ai & fake news its even worse than ever. & yet we just accept it. Its all about getting that moment online & being relevant.

It feels like 150 minutes im not going to lie. I looked at my watch a couple of times & was like what do you mean we still have an hour or 90 minutes to go.

Austin Butler turned up for one real scene in this movie & fucking owned it. When this man gets an oscar its going to be so good. The man is so talented & if you cant see that now with the multiple films hes been in recently i feel sorry for you. HEs grown a lots in the last couple of years & is more than earning his stripes.

Im not sure Emma stone needed to be the wife, that all felt a little forced. Maybe she just wanted to be in an Ari film, which does make sense, but you can tell she had a wig on because she was filming Bugonia at the same time (looks so cool by the way).

This film wanted to show off & tell you it was bigger & better than it actually was, but that final part just let it down. It almost cheapened all the messages. It didnt need to go kaboom & go crazy especially when in the end for the last few minutes its calm & shows you that despite everything some people are just puppets & wanting power & getting power are not the same things.

It misses its point & that really pissed me off. Im sorry it did. & thats my final thought about it because how could something tellign such an important story about our recent horrific history fuck up its ending so badly. Next time Ari keep your story straight & stick to one message you really want to tell & dont just jump all over the place cos if you had picked maybe one or two this would be up there for film of the year but it just was too long, bloated & full of itself.