Nine
I have never seen the original movie this is based on (8 1/2 by Federico Fellini) and I’d never even heard of the Broadway musical. I had, however, seen the movie version of Chicago and thought it was quite a good adaptation of the stage show. The same director, Rob Marshall, brings this musical from stage to screen, this time he misses the mark by along way.
The good first, it’s shot pretty well and I actually think the cast puts in some good performances, both Marion Cotillard & Daniel Day-Lewis put in solid performances. If you take each section of the movie it’s not bad but that’s the best I can say about it!
Overall I thought it was a confused effort where the musical numbers didn’t fit into the movie, most were badly performed, staged and lacked the class & slickness that I was expecting from the Chicago director. As I said I don’t know the musical, apparently it was Tony award winning but from these performances I thought it was distinctly average and the music was very uninspiring to say the least. The whole movie felt like when you put together a really hard jigsaw puzzle and find it’s missing a few pieces. I think it could have been a good movie but with so many pieces missing it just misses the mark.
Reading some other reviews some people seemed to have enjoyed the movie, some people even say that it may get the odd Oscar, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near that I think they were watching a different movie to me.
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