His life is certainly repetitive, from taking tourists out on his boat to catch big fish, to having sex with the sultry Constance (Diane Lane). He even gives the tuna a name, Justice, which is a bit like when my little sister got a kitten and we gave the eight week old, weeing bundle (the cat, not my sister) the rather ponderous monicker of Socrates.īaker Dill (Matthew McConaughey) lives on the beautiful Plymouth Island. Man and fish, inextricably linked, as is often the way between two foes in a movie. Its shadow lurks under and around his boat, but it always escapes. It could be a BBC Sunday night detective serial, about two young men running an organic farm café by day and solving hospitality industry-related murders by night.Īctually Dill is a fisherman and the tuna is a giant fish that eludes him. Maybe watch the movie then come back afterwards! And as I want to talk about those issues I’m going to have to spoiler it. It’s not a waste of time, I promise.WARNING: Serenity has some big issues as a movie but most of them relate to the bonkers twist. They’ve done more for less, if ya know what I mean.Īnyway, catch the trailer below and go forth and give it a watch on Stan. Sure, it’s not Oscar-worthy stuff, but I don’t think it deserved all the hatred it copped and it most definitely did NOT deserve to have the promotion abandoned. It was something unique and brilliantly done, IMO. I remember I sat there the whole time, waiting for the twist to be revealed, and I kept saying, ‘If the twist is that they’re all dead or this was all a dream, I’ll be furious.’ But it wasn’t a cliche. I agree that it’s an absolutely batshit twist, and yes, it’s very weird that Patrick, as the game’s creator, has scenes where the avatar for his father (who IRL died heroically in the Iraq War) has sex for money with an attractive older woman ( Diane Lane) on the island.īut the plot twist of reprogramming a video game to mimic his dad who he misses is, frankly, genius, and something I’ve never seen before. So throughout the film, we see him weighing up whether he should change the game from being about fishing, to being about killing her mum’s abusive new partner, an act that reflects Patrick’s real-world desire. It’s about Baker’s son Patrick ( Rafael Sayegh) being so upset about his situation that he’s created a fictional video game where his dad is still around. The plot of Serenity isn’t about Baker (McConaughey) trying to catch a big fish, it’s not about his ex-wife Karen (Hathaway) coming back into his life, and it’s not even about her asking him to kill her abusive ex-husband Frank ( Jason Clarke) for $10 mill. In case you’re still confused about what the hell happened, let me break it down for you. It’s one of those movies where you’re watching it the whole time, just waiting for the plot twist to pop out and when it finally did, let me tell you, I was not disappointed.Īnne Hathaway & Matthew McConaughey Angry As Film Flops, Distributor Bails I thought that plot twist was BRILLIANT.įirst have a read of the synopsis, then I’ll delve into the plot twist (BTW now would be the time to exit if you wish to see the film and not have it ruined):Ī fishing boat captain juggles facing his mysterious past and finding himself ensnared in a reality where nothing is what it seems. Sure, I’m an Entertainment Editor and it’s my job to review films, good or bad, but it’s my contention that life is too short to sit through poorly made films that no one cares about and since there was no media screening or Australia-based promo for the film, I didn’t bother plonking down my hard-earned dollarydoos and wasting an evening to go see it.īut when it recently landed on local streaming service Stan, I figured, well, now’s as good a time as ever to see what all the shade was about and honestly, I don’t get it. News outlets and social media critics alike were extremely vocal about their disdain for the plot twist, such as the following scathing review from Vanity Fair: A post shared by Anne Hathaway the movie was eventually released, and watched by an embarrassing number of people, both the film’s plot and its plot-twist became iconic… iconically bad.
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