Quick Reviews: Lost River (2014)

Eh, I'd stick to Acting.  To see how Ryan Gosling manages to make a worse Terrence Malick Film than Malick himself, read on...

In idyllic Detroit, we get...

Okay, am I the only one that sees Tree of Life here?  I mean, come on!!!!

Oh yeah, the Plot.

Basically, this Mom is trying to save her House, while her Son is stripping houses for copper.

This angers Dr. Who here, the guy who apparently runs this three-block radius with four Houses, a Store and no Cops.

To try and afford the House, Mad Men Lady works at a strange Club where people sing and women get fake murdered.

Eva Mendes- who did she sleep with to be in this Film?  Oh...right.

Who needs Strippers when you can have this?

Seriously, it's like the maker of A Serbian Film made a Club.

Can they escape from this sad Town?  Can they survive?  Can Saoirse Ronan keep this off her Resume forever?

To find out, watch the Film (if you really insist).

Go back to saving Jazz!  Ryan Gosling is a really good Actor.  I really liked stuff like Blade Runner 2049.  Please stick to that, man.  I want to like you.  Don't make bad Films like this.  Del Toro did this better.  Terry Gilliam did this better.  To be fair, the Film has some neat visuals (when not ripping off Malick) and it uses color well.  If this was a Music Video, it would be good.  Unfortunately, it is a narrative Film with barely any narrative, barely any forward momentum and I couldn't care about any of the Characters.  It's just...a bad Movie.  It is clear that Ryan Gosling has a thing for random, inexplicable gore that don't drive the Plot.  Joy.  On the plus side, there's no issue involved in pointing the blame...

After Only God Forgives, it is easy to assume that the Director was to blame.  Seeing its Star make a worse Film kind of disproves that (a little).