An advanced preview is one of my favourite cinema things to do. I mean lets be honest watching Films is my jam but going to see something before the rest of the world does without risk of spoiler is lush. So i am up for this. Its an epic book that people adore, Daisy is in it, Taylor has done the music. This is going to be lush & so cool.

Screen 1 was half fall & it was mainly millennials, people my age whod ever read the book or knew the premise & were just like yea lets give this a go.

Trailers we had Bullet Train (yes) Nope (yes) fisherman’s friends( maybe), the Sam Rockwell detective thing (probably) & Dont Worry Darling (YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS) what a mix of films that is.

& then the film started… I can see how this will be a whole group of peoples cuppa tea, it just wasnt mine, im sorry to say.

This doesnt take anything away from Daisy by the way, who is the in person & absolutely bossed it in the lead. She was really compelling & good & i did feel for her at times (especially some quite graphic moments against her will. She really delivered.

That being said the chemistry she had with the two male leads were non existent. I think i have some film reviews with better chemistry. It was so forced with both even before stuff happened. It wasnt right. & i get that people go for types, but they were just the exact same “chads” that you expect every American 19 year old to go ohhhh hes so dreamy. When they had the fight on the raft which lasted all of 10 seconds, i couldn’t remember which one i had to route for. Neither were very good in this. I also dont go for that look (even a modern version) so maybe that didnt help.

What even is a Crawdad ? & why do they sing? I had to come home & google that it was a crab thing… thats never really explained at no point at all. your just all expected to know they are marsh creatures.

I also never trusted her lawyer as it was David Starthairn. aka Noah Vosen. A man who i never trusted as a teenager in the Bourne Ultimatum (one of my favourite films of all time). So when he was being helpful in that court it was like really, do you have alternative motives mate. I never trust him.

Does the book jump between the trail & the past? As someone whos not read it i want to know if it did that. There were points where you forgot we were in a trail as wed spend almost 30min in the past until we suddenly flew back to prison or something. It made that part of the film secondary. I wanted to learn more & be more involved in the trial than we were with just the few witnesses we saw. It would have mad it more dramatic.

Starting it with the arrest again is that the book that hes already dead (its the first 2mins of the film & its in the trailer thats not a spoiler).

Cinema Sins cant wait to shout out narration when they do this film.

There was some really nice cinematography of the marsh (especially the fireworks) but how many times to i need to watch someone go pick mussels or drive round that one bend to where that tree was. It became lazy after a time.

Taylors song (only in the credits) is good &the score felt very swift too, so that added to the tenseness of it all.

Every single character in this film wasnt likeable (apart from maybe the shop owners they were redeeming but didnt have much to do at all). Seriously everyone had something which pissed me off a bit & i was like why am are all these people either up themselves, mean, abusive or just so gullible its laughable. not everyone has to fall into one of these traits.

Yea this wasnt my cuppa tea, but i know those of you who adore the book & like this type of film, will just be falling apart in joy at this. For me its a bad film but for others its probably perfection.

Its worth a watch for the Score & Daisy & thats about it.