Cherry

Considering this is the Russo Brothers post Endgame movie which stars Tom Holland, one of the youngest A list actors in Hollywood today, this was one of my most anticipated movies of the year.

Kicking off with the positives, Tom Holland just steals the show with his performance. He's able to bring up so many different emotions during this film whilst keeping his natural charisma and it's just impressive with how he does this. He's really proving He is a very versatile actor and I'm excited to see his future projects.

I also really like the concept of the story. It's a story that feels like an obvious Oscar pick but is also a very character driven story and those are usually my favourite types of stories in films.

Finally I really appreciate that whilst this is a more smaller scale film, it's also feels as ambitious as their previous projects. 

But unfortunately I was massively disappointed in this film so it's time to move onto the negatives and the biggest problem with this film is the execution of its story. As I said before, this feels like an obvious Oscar pick but I doubt it will even be considered now and it breaks my heart to say this but I have to put it down to the Russo Brothers direction.

This is basically a simple tragic character story that should be easy to follow but it feels like the Russo Brothers want it to be more than that. It feels like they want to separate themselves from their previous MCU ventures whilst keeping the ambitious feelings in their movies and I can appreciate and respect that but this film is simply too ambitious. It should be a more grounded, independent feeling film and the films story execution suffers as a result as it gets too drawn out and at times the storytelling feels very messy due to its stylistic tone.

That's another issue with the film. It's stylistic tone is again too much. The Russo Brothers don't seem to know what kind of aesthetic to use for the film so they just use a whole bunch of them. There's different visual cues, cinematography changes, there's a couple of times Tom Hollands character breaks the 4th wall and unfortunately these aesthetics never seem to suit this film at any point.

Finally and this really bugged me but this film is overbundled with narration to the point where it just gets annoying. I don't mind narration in films but not to the point where it treating the audience like idiots and explaining every little detail to them.

Overall this is easily the most disappointing film of the year for me so far. I really wanted to enjoy it but I just didn't. It's simply too much for how little the story is and I do blame the Russos for this films faults.

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