Actors: John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer
Director: Jake Kasdan
Walk Hard was not a successful film at the box office, and I suspect that's because it was just a little too good at what it does. A send-up of recent biopics, it skewers the genre without love; it reveals how hollow and silly all of the tropes in these films are. Of course, I've never actually seen these films.
The jokes that don't work are the ones that seem to refer directly to those films - Walk the Line and Ray, for example - these references instantly make the film dated. Still, Walk Hard has some fantastic laughs, and shows the absurdity of trying to capture a person's entire life story in 2 hours.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment