I've been a bit let down by some of the acclaimed movies of 2019. Knives Out was not bad but disappointing. Started out with such promise with a great cast in a Clue like setting with the potential of a clever who done it only halfway through the movie it just bails on all of that focussing on a couple of characters while underutilizing the rest of the cast. The ingredients for a great film were there and they just underbaked it.
Parasite was better but far from the best South Korean film ever made. It's like a bunch of movie critics and Oscar voters had never seen or heard of South Korea cinema before and realised "Wow this highly entertaining, violent, quirky, dark, depressing, revenge storytelling with twists is pretty cool." Good movie but I was expecting a masterpiece seeing this was finally the South Korean film that broke through to mainstream west moviegoers and it's just a good film by the standards set decades ago by South Korean cinema.
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