From 39f5bbd82dbda60286c942f0386b00113e67b37c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julio Biason Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 09:11:40 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Movie review Unhinged --- content/reviews/movies/unhinged.md | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/reviews/movies/unhinged.md diff --git a/content/reviews/movies/unhinged.md b/content/reviews/movies/unhinged.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee308b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/movies/unhinged.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ ++++ +title = "Unhinged (2020)" +date = 2021-03-28 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["movies", "reviews", "movies:2021", "russell crowe", "stars:2"] ++++ + +[IMDB Summary](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10059518/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0): +After a confrontation with an unstable man at an intersection, a woman becomes +the target of his rage. + + + +{{ stars(stars=2) }} + +The movie starts with a Crowe of the size of a Goodman attacking a couple with +a hammer and then burning a house. After that, we switch for a family of a +disorganized mother (Caren Pistorius), who just got fired and it is late to +take her kid to school. In a traffic light, a truck -- later shown as being +driven by Crowe -- doesn't move when the lights turn green, she presses the car +horn too strongly, the guy on the truck gets pissed, gets no "I'm sorry" and +decides to show what a "bad day" is. Then the chase starts. + +... and that's basically it, and you can already figure out the end by the +simple fact of how they shown Crowe as a bad guy and Pistorius as a +bad-luck-mother. + +What would be the main points of the movie, the chases in the streets, actually +are very few and not that bad, accept that Crowe manages to create the worst +case scenarios -- like a cop truck being smashed by a concrete truck -- out of +pure luck -- or lack of luck for Pistorius, I don't know. + +So you have the killings, which also seem like Crowe managed to think and plan +all of them in advance, instead of being a spur of the moment. How? No idea. + +Actually, the whole thing is weird. I mean, ok, there is the road rage, but +what broke Crowe in such way that he would kill people to torment a woman +because a honk? Why he burned the house in the very beginning of the movie? +Nothing is said about this and he's shown simply as "bad guy". + +While Crowe is still Crowe and delivers, the plot is too magical to actually +make sense.