Happy New Year
Jan. 7th, 2019 07:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerFarah Khan directed Om Shanti Om, which is delightfully bonkers, so I had high hopes for her heist movie Happy New Year. Unfortunately, although Happy New Year is also bonkers - our heroes commit a heist! By stealing diamonds from a vault buried death in the earth beneath a hotel! While also competing in an international dance competition because that’s the only way to get access to the right room in the hotel!!!! - it’s bizarrely boring.
Seriously. How do you make that premise boring?
But apparently it’s possible to make anything boring if you go about it the wrong way. In this case, rather than use the film’s three hour run time to flesh out the characters or their relationships, the film is stuffed with boring fight sequences, labored jokes, and boring dance sequences. A running joke is that our heisters are actually terrible dancers, which, fine, they weren’t chosen for their dancing skills - but being entertaining bad is a skill set in itself, and the dance sequences here miss the mark.
By the end of the first hour, I supplemented the movie with a book of cookie recipes in the hopes that the two of them together would entertain me. With the aid of the cookie recipes I struggled through another hour, but then I decided that life is too short and gave up an hour shy of the end.
Seriously. How do you make that premise boring?
But apparently it’s possible to make anything boring if you go about it the wrong way. In this case, rather than use the film’s three hour run time to flesh out the characters or their relationships, the film is stuffed with boring fight sequences, labored jokes, and boring dance sequences. A running joke is that our heisters are actually terrible dancers, which, fine, they weren’t chosen for their dancing skills - but being entertaining bad is a skill set in itself, and the dance sequences here miss the mark.
By the end of the first hour, I supplemented the movie with a book of cookie recipes in the hopes that the two of them together would entertain me. With the aid of the cookie recipes I struggled through another hour, but then I decided that life is too short and gave up an hour shy of the end.
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