You Were Never Really Here 4K 2017

“You Were Never Really Here” interested me with its trailer, which gave me the impression of a movie with a unique style, partly reminiscent of ‘Hotline Miami’. However, my expectations were not met. While the movie shares some commonalities with “Taxi Driver,” it doesn't resemble it even remotely.

The style itself doesn't hold up. Yes, sometimes we are included to listen to music that matches the mood of the movie, but this is not always the case. The scenes of massacres have an interesting trick: they are often shown to us either in fact, or through surveillance cameras, and it's kind of interesting as a concept, but it's executed in such a way that all the brutality and brutality that should be there is gone (probably, it was worth watching how it was executed in “Manhunt”).

The plot is quite banal, you can immediately assume how everything will end, so there is no point in discussing it. You should not expect any revelations. The character in this movie is literally one - it is Joe, all the others are needed only to move the plot forward, they are not characters. Unfortunately, this one character is not revealed in any way, we are just shown a series of cliffhanger flashbacks about his hard life, thus drawing his madness, and that's literally all, beyond that there is nothing. What moves Joe isn't clear, he just moves from one checkpoint to the next.

It ends up being a complete bore. There is literally nothing to watch this movie for. Yes, Joaquin Phoenix may be good (however, it's not the first time he's portrayed madness), but it's not enough. Otherwise, the production itself isn't bad, especially some of the scenes, and everything is filmed well. The script tries to be overly pretentious, but it doesn't stray too far from B action movies with the same plot, but more driving action.