This was just an OK murder mystery thriller. It does keep you guessing until the end as to what exactly is happening in the story with a decent twist at the end.
Sheridan is great but the film, while okay in parts, isn't as good as it could have been. Some scenes are rushed, and some take their sweet time getting to where they need to be. Narrative problems aside though, it's still worth seeing.
Good movie - definitely worth watching.
He’s a lonely boy. He should have got laid
Could have been a great or at least skillfully directed "okay" 90s film, but suffers from uneven writing and scene execution typical of films today. It's not terrible, and I even enjoyed it and mildly rooted for the protagonist, but it just doesn't quite work.
Helen Hunt is fine. John Leguizamo is fine, and Sheridan is fine... their characters just aren't that compelling. Call me biased, but I felt the most for Ana de Armas' character. The woman is just sparkling whenever she's onscreen... yet even her character feels like a disappointment in the final scenes, as the story feels like it just doesn't have the stamina to bother being dramatic fiction anymore, and settles for a quick, boringly realistic wrap-up so Bart can get his "Autist shut-in goes to the mall" scene like he didn't just go through 90 minutes of harrowing, first love, sex-lies-and-video screenplay drama.
As an aside, I also have to wonder about the depiction of Bart as "Autistic". I'm on the spectrum myself and did find a number of things that, while generally more extreme than myself, definitely remind me of episodes of social confusion and awkwardness in my life, but Bart's portrayal from scene to scene seems inconsistent if not outright unrealistic. Yes, we can be capable of being more natural, and closer to normal degrees of suaveness like he was when playing back his first meeting with Andrea, but the degree of his clueless, awkward robiticness seems not to match his later degree of very natural social responses when he's only responding to her playback. And then, for the rest of the film, he goes back to the seemingly nearly completely emotionally blind and dumb demi-Rain Man.
It's important to represent the spectrum of atypical mentalities, and I have no problem with showing Bart or Rain Man's Ray, or John Nash's, again, idiot savant, but it would be nice if films would also show autistic, ADHD, OCD, etc. characters that have more subtle and sometimes entirely overlooked cases instead of making all examples those of the " special boy", or "weird but magically gifted novel protagonist".
I don't pretend to understand the struggles of others, but it's a unique struggle of its own to have gone through an especially confusing childhood and teenage life, learning the hard way how people work, but not being quite different enough for anyone competent to ever recognize your actual strengths and deficits.
I want to see those stories if even just as subtly acknowledged character framing.
Incredibly well played by Tye, what a joy to watch his character. Love Ana de Armas although I’m not sure what to think of the story itself, this had so much potential.
Feels like a bit of a mess, does 'The Night Clerk'.
I personally didn't feel entertained by this 2020 release. Ana de Armas gives a positive performance, though Tye Sheridan is a bit hit-and-miss. The 90 minute run time goes by a little slowly, while the story of this flick doesn't really seem all that well put together - it could've gone deeper, I feel. Or at least could have produced a more noteworthy ending.
Lastly, a less serious point, but everytime Sheridan's character said "Boy oh boy oh boy" I amusingly kept getting a memory of Dug from 'Up'.
Ana was great, but the story was too slow for me. Glab she went onto better things.
it was ok, kinda creepy though.
it might look slow, but it has a good story and the ending didn't let down, good movie
Good history with great final.
Easy 8/10, worth watching.
Even it's a slow movie, it manage to get your attention from the moment it's starts because of the situation. Really liked it.
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I’ve been searching for more movies with Ana de Armas playing a leading role, since first noticing her in the recent 007, No Time to Die. I thought this was a good movie. I liked the characters. They kept me interested until the end.