28/15

Based on the comic strip “Here” by Richard McGuire

Narrative

A generational story about families and the special place they call home, sharing love, loss, laughter and life. It was first published as a comic strip in the comic magazine “Raw” in 1989, and was expanded into a 300-page graphic novel in 2014. [trailer clip] Richard: You know, if you wanted to, you could spend the rest of the night here.

Includes Toast of the Town (1948)

Margaret: I could spend the rest of my life here. What the hell happened to Robert Zemeckis. In the past, Zemeckis has created classic works like “Forrest Gump, the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Polar Express” and many other great works that I grew up with.

However, after The Walk, his works have been disappointing and underwhelming to say the least

This film has a really ambitious and intriguing concept, but unfortunately, despite some solid and interesting moments, Zemeckis fails to properly experiment with the concept and ends up being tedious and disappointing. The concept of the camera staying in one place and the narrative seem ambitious and creative. With interesting themes and could be innovative in exploring, but Zemeckis’ direction and the film’s lack of emotional depth ruin what could have been a good film.

Complete with rough dialogue and pacing issues

Filled with bloated plots, unbalanced structures, and characters that aren’t fully developed, the emotional weight and engagement becomes more of a slumber fest. Almost as if Zemeckis saw The Tree of Life but somehow missed what made The Tree of Life amazing and made this film more mediocre and boring. The production designs and camera work are really good, as well as the uses of CGI of face swapping which are pretty solid with the colors and movements.

Robert Zemeckis will always be one of my favorite directors

All the performances are good and it’s nice to see Tom Hanks and Robin Wright together again as they have good chemistry and scenes together. But it just didn’t work because of a sloppy and clumsy approach that really doesn’t do it justice. I grew up in his childhood, but unfortunately his best years are far, far behind.