The main characters acting is already hard to watch. A movie full of unnecessary clichés and cheap giggles.
The story itself should make it pretty easy to make a good movie out of it, but it completely missed the mark.
The dialogues lack any witt and make it look as if most characters are blantly idiotic. Most characters are superficial and confirm any cliché fitting the plot. It seems as if the director believes it would be unbearable for the spectater to witness ambiguous and complex characters, who would make the story way more realistic.
The part concerning the private family of the main character was quite expendable and didn't add anythingmeaningful to the story.
I would have loved if the spectator would have gotten a deeper insight on how Bogenius was able to hold up his lies for so long and deceived a whole country.
Plot summary
Star reporter Lars Bogenius is a respected journalist and knows how to wow his readers and critics with emotional reportage. Emotional, realistic and moving, his style regularly promises to win him the industry's most coveted awards. His publishing house is also grateful to the exceptional journalist, because the paper's numbers are sinking and are being cushioned by Bogenius' reportage, among other things. Everything sounds too good to be true - at least that's the opinion of freelance journalist Juan Romero, who takes on the inconsistencies and looks deeper behind Bogenius' research and reportage. It's a dangerous plan that faces numerous obstacles. But what he discovers turns out to be the biggest journalism scandal in Germany.—TMDB
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March 02, 2023 at 12:32 PM
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A parody of a serious story
Pretentious & Cliché'd Snoozefest of Epic Proportions
This movie uses cliché'd cinematics to try to bolster a weak and boring story, which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if it didn't fail horribly in doing so.
It's like the producers and directors had a list of boxes to check, and closed their eyes and pointed to scenes and used them at random. So it's like a pretentious student film. Casting is also cliché'd and acting poor to mediocre for the most part.
This could've been a good film (if the script were a bit better), and I imagine it will end up in some film-school course on how not to make a movie.
It's remarkable that it got theatre distribution in its country of origin. I guess the theatres there are desperate for content.
Story has potential but the movie ends up boring
A story with a lot of potential ends up being extremely boring and relying on weird effects.
Apparently the writers and director realized that the characters lack any depth and tried to make sure no one falls asleep watching it by using lots of narration, slow motion and breaking the fourth wall. None of it is necessary or manages to make the movie interesting.
Most characters are caricatures and therefor have little depth that could make them interesting to watch.
At least there is some self-awareness of the absolute snoozefest of a film when the movie shows us an ending that is more interesting than the actual ending.
