Greta (2018)
2018
R
98 Minutes
A young woman returns an elderly widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers her elder might not be all that she seems.
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Basically what this all adds up to is maybe I had a reason not to take the bait to see “Greta”. Even with Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert in the main roles, the film is enjoyable at best with some suspenseful moments and build up tension and criminally underwhelming at worst as the real issue here lies in the predictable story, the fault in decision making for the characters and the slow burning build up not going anywhere once we get to the ending. The film, to me, is not relatively boring but if Moretz and Huppert weren’t here in, it probably would’ve been a different story. I’m not against using cliches in a movie. We have to have our original ideas come along somewhere and eventually they get reused from lack of originality. That isn’t a bad thing cause we need every once in a while but if you’re not gonna bother adding in a new spin on it, what’s the point?
Every beat, every sequence, every fragment that’s been taken or used or recycled in other films, this film hits as well. The only reason I’ve been able to look past that is because of well the suspenseful bits of the movie live up to expectations and also because of it’s arguable somewhat sense of unintentional humor in some select scenes.
To be fair, it is one of Chloë’s better movies on her resume but that’s not really saying much. Like every other film, this one had potential via its director and screenwriter but magic doesn’t always formulate to the silver screen......and this is just one of those instances where the initial set-up is just lacking in subtlety to the point that this movie might as well be a satire.0 member like this review.
