These are just a few of the reviews for Serenity now online, so feel free to look around for other thoughts. Serenity knows it’s trash, but that’s not to say that it’s not entertaining trash. The oily slick of sin across the surface of this film isn’t what makes it wickedly fun it’s the utter devotion to its bonkers twist, at once defying logic and good taste. But, at least Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway were able to have fun with the material they were given. Myers also mentioned how ironic it is that this movie is called Serenity considering that the story is anything but calm or peaceful for the audience. ![]() While she couldn’t exactly recommend the movie to people, she nonetheless wants others to see it to discuss just how “insane” it is with her. And it’s a highly ambitious movie that offers something that fewer and fewer movies do these days: a genuine surprise.įinally, Kimber Myers from The Playlist stamped a C grade on Serenity. Bui complimented Serenity’s cast for dedicating themselves to the “sheer heights of ridiculousness,” but said the movie ultimately fails to resolve everything as properly as it could have.īut Serenity is splashy, it’s weird, it’s wild, and it knows it. As she explained, the movie can be divided into two acts: before and after the twist, and both halves are so “wildly dissimilar” from one another that they could be completely different movies. ![]() The twist in Serenity makes you reevaluate everything you’ve seen before, but now it all makes less sense, as though Knight wasn’t particularly interested in the mechanics of his twist and only interested in pulling the rug out from under us.īack to (slightly more) positive territory, Slashfilm’s Hoai-Tran Bui gave Serenity a 6.5 out of 10 score. The best twists make you reevaluate everything you’ve seen before, and reveal new layers of the story that make the whole film stronger. ![]() While Han found Serenity to be beautifully shot and its actors committed to their roles, the bonkers twist takes away attention from everything else. Karen Han from Polygon found Serenity to be “ludicrous,” noting how the first half of the movie is about what you’d expect from the trailers, but the latter half is where things get super weird (no spoilers here). Starting off, CinemaBlend’s own Mike Reyes gave Serenity 2.5 out of 5 stars in his review, saying that the movie’s talented cast are brought together to act out “what’s basically a late night Cinemax movie from the late 80’s / early 90’s.” It isn’t until later that the movie transitions from a “sexy noir knockoff” into “something altogether different” by presenting intriguing ideas, but by the time Serenity hits its final act, it transitions once more into an “info dump that undermines a lot of the goodwill it’s earned.”Ī film that starts off like a Cinemax late night thriller, only to slide into half baked territory that only a USA Networks original dares to tread.
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