Wonder Wheel

Woody has broken me down. I don't think this is considerably worse than his last few but my interest in his films has just about totally eroded. Props to Storaro for trying to breathe some Sirkian life into the story and to Winslet for trying to do the same even if she can do this kind of performance in her sleep. But I just don't care anymore. This makes me greater appreciate people like Scorsese who actually try to adapt or evolve their style over the decades in order to stay relevant.

Winslet is good here, and Belushi is decent. Timberlake, whom I've liked in several of his previous roles, is not. Everything about the film is too big or too much (including the lighting), but it sort of works.

Woody Allen is the most intolerable filmmaker of a generation. I can't tell if this is a serious drama or a black comedy. This movie has some nice staging though.

Reaching great-grandpa age ol’ Woody still has a few interesting observations on self-destructiveness and jealousy and the hopeless pit of being trapped. The movie’s whimsical settings and music definitely belie a pretty grim story - I wouldn’t call it a fun watch by any means. Interesting, though. Juno Temple is luminous. And David Krumholtz, WHAT THE FUCK, dude looks like he’s gained 100 lbs! He looks like Jeff fucking Garlin! Personal trainer, David, stat!!

Kate Winslet was incredible and convincing. James Belushi and Juno Temple were also good. Justin Timerlake, was not great. The plot and dialog was not very convincing and occasionally tedious. An otherwise unremarkable movie is mostly redeemed by a tour de force performance from Kate Winslet.

Woody Allen - The Tennessee Williams Edition

Kate Winslet was great, can't say the same for the script.

Shouting and more shouting. Belushi puts in perhaps the worst portrayal of a drunk in any film ever (talk about a hammy performance, even if Allen intends the film as deliberately stagy), while Timberlake is all wrong as the narrator. Even Winslet comes out looking bad (except for her breasts) as she hysterically wades her way through this snoozefest. About the only appealing aspect of the film is the Promethean child with a love for cinema, that is Richie.

Allen's latest is an agreeable enough time-killer, though too reminiscent of the superior BLUE JASMINE; well cast, with Winslet reliably terrific, but the film feels like a mish-mash of greatest hits - even ten years ago, Allen would have played this melodramatic material for laughs, rather than with the sincere earnestness he displays here. As with most of his late-era work, his skills as director far outweigh his writing; Coney island atmosphere beautifully photographed by Storaro.

Kate can't save this mess of a script. Neither can bright colors.

Ok.

görsel olarak son dönemde woody'nin en özenli işlerinden biri olsa da senaryo olarak en zayıfı. bitsin diye filmi sarasım geldi resmen.

The movie is ok, but there's so much shouting I was physically exhausted by the end of it

Viewed November 30, 2017.

46.50

Escorpião.

I'm just not a Belushi or Timberlake fan (for the most part)

A atuação de Kate Winslet é fantástica. De resto, o filme preserva e reforça estereótipos problemáticos - o rapaz é um idealista bobalhão que sai como herói embora seja totalmente inconsequente, o papel submisso das moças "lutando" pelo interesse do mocinho. Mas o roteiro é inteligente e tem partes legais.

Any film that gives Jim Belushi top billing must be viewed with suspicion, but he is actually quite good and more than holds his own against Winslet, whose character is reminiscent of all of Allen's female characters who are trapped in unfortunate situations, often through no fault of their own. The 50's Coney Island setting is wonderfully recreated, and Storaro's lighting shifts like a lava lamp to reveal dramatic psychology, but the narration is clumsy and the 3rd act is a real letdown.

Almost turned this one off, but I stuck with it. It has the feel of a play, but has some lifelike characters and a plot that pulls you in.

sort of a rehash of 'blue jasmine' in some ways, but with a better back drop. the film relies heavily on winslet's performance, which is stellar as par, but the story just doesn't hold up. Some good old school cinematography and theatre-like mise-en-scene elevate the movie to a passable status.

J'ai adoré chaque minute de ce film. Les couleurs chaudes contrastées, la musique qui enferme les personnages dans une noirceur abyssale, faite de banalité, et de morosité du quotidien. Kate Winslet est bluffante dans ce rôle de femme rêveuse et volage, et le fait de ne pas l'avoir nominée aux oscars est une blague ! Justin Timberlake fait la narration du film, pour y ajouter un petit soupçon d'originalité, et il est très sexy en sauveteur romanesque de ces dames. Très joli film de Woody Allen.

"Femme fatale"

The dialogue seems to have been written in a self-consciously stagey style, perhaps because what the film is really about is theatre, tragedy and specifically the Eugene O’Neill brand of American melodrama, combined with the frequent Woody Allen theme about the role of fiction in “real life”. In other words, I get the feeling the critics may have missed what was interesting here, perhaps because their attention was focused on other tragedies stemming from other confusions of fact and fiction.

Looks nice but timberlake is a dog shit actor

First problem: don't cast Justin Timberlake in anything. Ever. Second problem I'd like to blame on Amazon studios, since Woody's film making is usually superb even if he can't write anymore. Even that has degraded significantly.

45.67.

Before she married Humpty, before she became a waitress, before she settled down under the shadow of Coney Island's famous Wonder Wheel, Ginny was an actress. She loved acting. She still has dresses and jewelry from her plays, and she shows them to a weary Richie whenever she can.

It's the best-looking Allen film in decades, but it has a painfully rote story. Winslet is good and Temple plays better than her character is written, but Timberlake's narrator is horribly cliched and stock and Belushi is so bad it's hard to tell if he's doing a parody or not.

It obviously draws from Williams' work to create an intensely dramatic atmosphere of a woman trapped in a common, unhappy life. It ends as it starts - this married waitress just living the life she gets, managing her troubled, dependant, sometimes violent husband and her cinephile son who enjoys burning things. Timberlake's character - the narrator - doesn't click, as it doesn't the marked woman plot involving Belushi's daughter. Very irregular work punctuated by Storaro's lighting.

He still got it. I enjoyed it despite the ratings being low here.

One of the prettiest films I've seen in a long long time, and one where the cinematography is not only pretty but paramount. I think one of the first Allen films to really be about light and color. I would love to see more of this kind of thing (and Cafe Society), and less Blue Jasmine and its ilk.

Good screenplay. It's a very direct Woody Allen movie, he's not trying too hard to constantly suggest something supposedly deep through dialogues or thoughts; the plot is a simple love story that escalates, there are a couple of very well directed scenes. It's a correct work with nothing impressive about it, just like almost every other Allen work out there.

5. Boğaziçi Film Festivali - Beyoğlu Sineması.

not so good

We got it, now will you pleas lay off the underaged siblings thing?

A top-tier Allen melodrama, elevated by Storaro's vibrant chiaroscuro that changes color and therefore dramatization even within the director's trademark mastershots. If it weren't for Timberlake and the at times overly ornate dialogue, we'd have a world-class actor's showcase that could tour forever. I only stop myself from grading it higher because I wonder, as smoothly as everything fits, what is gained from Allen ruining another poor woman.

Woody Allen's movies can be broadly split into either funny or serious, with a few hybrids along the way. This is one of the hybrids and it works quite well. The writing is solid as usual; the two main performances - Kate Winslet and James Belushi - are both very good, and there are enough amusing scenes peppered throughout to lighten the tone. And talking of tone it looks gorgeous. One of Woody's better late era efforts.

I actually thought this was quite good. The Coney Island setting and Storaro's cinematography injected some extra energy to this story that otherwise had been better suited for theater. Winslet does a good job as the lead with shades of Blanchett's role in Blue Jasmine. Belushi is surprisingly good and luckily he continued in good form on Twin Peaks revival. Considering the allegations against Woody, there are some themes that bring an undercurrent to the movie that would otherwise be missed.