bartmanbilly

The Mastermind

53/100 Fuck around and find out. Bro is not a Mastermind. I started this on a flight and just didn’t have the patience to continue due to a lack of sleep. But after a month long hiatus from film, I’m back; unfortunately this was not it. On the bright side, whatever I watch next will probably be much easier to get into. I’d never seen the director or knew the director prior to this and I don’t mean to be rude but her film is reflective of her face, painfully dull. Not ugly, just not interesting. The amount of times they were just extending a shot for no fucking reason got me scratching my head towards the end. It’s like she was doing it on purpose. There’s so little in this film that she felt she had to showcase every action of his as he was doing it. From parking his car to fucking organising the boxes which took 5 whole minutes to replacing the photo on his fake ID and so much more. And I must be honest, I thought it started off well. It looked like he was about to pull some sort of a genius heist but turns out it’s the tagline I mentioned at the start. Sorry to be talking like Gen A or whatever but bro is not built for this shit and the rest of the film is just him trying to make his way out until he gets caught for something he didn’t even do. Karma hits you in some way or the other. Although one thing is quite clear - the art of stealing has been killed by the cameras. Back then, all you needed was a mask and one more guy than the security which also was minimal and now one alarm, one sighting and it’s over. You ain’t making it out of the building my friend. But people still do pull off heists and those are the real artists, not these 70s frauds. Good to see my guy Victor from Penguin even though it was an useless appearance and yeah much of the second half was just a test of your will to complete a movie. Josh is good I guess for what little this demanded of him. And the rest tag along. Alan Haim was good too. And for the way this is shot with that grainy filter or camera, this is one ugly ass film even though it ought not to be. A failure of a project in more ways than one.

astrid

The Mastermind

josh o'connor double feature 2/2 kinda underwhelming, especially when you watch la chimera right before. the only things i liked about this were the costumes, the score and when the setting was in rural north-east coast.

vinguson

The Mastermind

I really love heist movies, but I think this one is too simple for a heist movie, like there's no effort, I'm bored watching it, and there are only a few theft scenes, the rest... I don't know. The ending: Would you rather be a thief or be a hippie?

notlis

The Mastermind

Mubi a préféré soutenir Israël que de sortir The Mastermind dans plus de cinéma