I'm surprised by all the people who loved it. I liked the first two as silly escapist entertainment and wanted that from this movie, but it wasn't that.

It felt like an unrelated movie. It felt like a homage to some other movie I haven't seen. The story wasn't quite there.

I am no longer religious but was raised Catholic. It is so jarring with the inaccuracies and implausible scenarios in a Catholic Church.

First there is zero percent chance that church is Catholic. None. Anyone who goes to a Catholic Church would notice.

Unlike Protestant denominations priests aren’t assigned to a parish for a lifetime. And there is no way a son or grandchild is going to how up in a church then be assigned to that parish.

The film really fails because it treats the Catholic Church as a disposable prop. It’s pretty hypocritical for the director to expect us to take his moral redemption ending seriously when he clearly doesn't take the faith he’s depicting seriously at all.

You can’t have it both ways, first using sacred rituals as a joke and then turn around and try to give the audience a deep sermon. It’s fundamentally wrong to use a mix of religions and insert an evangelical fire and brimstone illegitimate child backdrop but then decide you like the aesthetics of a Catholic Church. No one would allow a director to treat a mosque or a temple as a meaningless backdrop just to mock it for a plot twist.

In the end, the supposed moral lesson feels totally unearned because it’s built on a foundation of disrespect for the very tradition it’s trying to lecture us about.

It was so boring.

2 better movies to watch that are new right now are One Battle After Another, and Sinners. Both are great.

This was so convoluted and unbelievable. I love Josh O’Conner, Josh Brolin and Glenn Close but they could not save it for me.

It was so incredibly stupid and boring. Loved the first and the second one wasn't as good but still entertaining.

Watched it with spouse and two older teenagers. I was excited we could watch the third as a family movie as soon as older teenagers got back from college.

Within 15 minutes one teen had left, spouse left 15 minutes later. I wanted to ditch the movie too but said I would give it to the hour mark. At an hour in I really wanted to leave but other teen wanted to watch it until the end so I stayed. It wasn’t just bad it was painfully bad.

It was meh.

Fun movie. Saw it at Alamo. Crystal City.

Well, Ioved it and it seems like a lot of people agreed per rotten tomatoes. josh Brolin was a fantastic villain and I was surprised at how well Josh O Connor carried the first third of the film.


I'm also a nerd for locked room mysteries and enjoyed the literary tie ins.

Finally, yeah. I didn't enjoy the suspects as much as in previous films, but I thought Johnson did a really good job of not retreading the other movies tonally and beat for beat

I started watching it and found it boring. I hate the character who winds up as the victim. The writing is not good, some of the acting from good actors is not great, and overall it lacks any charm or whimsy. Daniel Craig seems to be phoning it in. They need new, good scriptwriters if they do another one.

So I HATED the first film and the second one.
I watched this only because I happened to be in the room with my DH as he was viewing it and I really enjoyed it. A lot.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Given the destruction Rian Johnson wrought the Star Wars universe, I can’t watch any of his movies.

Same here. I'll never watch any of his movies ever again.

I mean, really. "Somehow Palpatine returned" wasn't the movie you had an issue with?

Anonymous wrote:Given the destruction Rian Johnson wrought the Star Wars universe, I can’t watch any of his movies.

Same here. I'll never watch any of his movies ever again.

I didn't think it was as good as the other two but I though Josh O'Connor was quite good in it and the fiming and locations were really lovely. I didn't think he did as well with the side characters as in the previous movies, as that was the real delight of the first one. I'd definitely watch another one if they made it.

My spouse and I watched it in two parts because it is 2.5 hours long.

First 1/2 on Friday: great, funny, good characters. Josh O’Connor is fabulous in everything he does

2nd half: what the hell happened? They wrapped it up so fast we had trouble understanding it. Convoluted story.

The actors are great but… not as good as the first one. I don’t even remember the plot of the 2nd one but I remember thinking it was bad too.

My take:
The first - amazing
The second - dumb
The third - ridiculous