Boat Story (2023)
3/10
Falling between stool(pigeon)s
26 November 2023
This might be intended as a comedy, but it's not funny. It might be intended to be serious, but it's not plausible. The gratuitous, graphic, hackneyed violence sucks out the laughter & rapidly becomes predictable as well as unpleasant. The gratuitous surrealism voids the plausibility. It's an interesting (if unlikely) scenario with tortuous & meandering handling: a (gratuitously) serpentine mess. Some scenes are even played deliberately to be cringe-inducingly embarrassing at around the level of a sixth form play.

It's very unusual for me to lose patience with a well cast, well-played, carefully shot thriller, but I'd had enough - more than enough - after an hour and a half. I'm quite happy to admit this might not be enough to form a rounded and incisive opinion, that maybe I'm missing out on a modern Hamlet, but frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. I'm out.
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