bill condon and ian mckellen are one of those great actor/director pairings and
for their third technically fourth fourth pairing they've made a movie that
is both strikingly classic but also modern yes if you are over Downton Abbey
and you know who you are you're like me I love that movie
I settled into the theater with the tea and a cookie or a biscuit I guess in
this case cuz both films are uk-based right and I didn't sneak that food in
the theater I went to sold it thank you very much and I'm hoping they get the
good liar because I have some friends who want to see it again then get ready
for round two basically now for the first two-thirds of the good liar it
plays like a classic Hitchcock film right but what's interesting is that not
only does it get the elegance and sense of suspense just right from Hitchcock's
classic films but our stars are an 80 and 74 year old and it's very refreshing
to see two older actors not only as the leads in a thriller but as fully fleshed
out dynamic characters who are complicated people instead of Grandma
and Grandpa right Hollywood often depicts people in this
age range a sideline right even like in the x-men movies you know nobody really
knew what Professor X and Magneto wanted they were just kind of like finger heads
right uh and here they're in the thick of it boy are they in the thick of it in
the good liar and then there's the twist obviously there's a twist it's a
thriller right but I'll tell you now you'll never see the twist coming don't
even try and figure it out you'll try about two-thirds through the movie I was
like is there even a twist and then oh boy was there and I had mixed feelings
about not being able to see it coming when the twist finally revealed itself
because traditionally mysteries have Clues right so you can play along and I
think even when you don't realize the clues at first usually you can go back
and pick up where they worry like oh I should have seen
that a little bit like The Sixth Sense right but here you are completely
blindsided and even if you were to go back and re-watch the film you'd still
be blindsided but the more I thought about it the more I realized that that's
what happens in real life when you go up again it's not just a liar but a good
liar a good liar doesn't make mistakes and drop Clues so you can figure out
that they're lying right I mean you are completely blindsided and
I had a I had an emotional reaction to being blindsided as a movie goer just as
the characters had to being blindsided in the movie itself because people do
lie for all sorts of reasons small lies big lies shocking lies but to live a lie
that's that's not only very difficult but very rare but it happens and such
stories are rooting as is the case here again I'm not gonna I'm not gonna give
anything away but again if you like classic films thrillers in particular
like Hitchcock or like murder mysteries like things in the UK right that kind of
stuff if you like the BBC right the good liar is a very good classic but still
modern story very much so in but it's interesting to have one foot so firmly
planted in each side and of course as one would expect very strong
performances from Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren now the good liar might not be
for everyone but for the people it is for I'm confident it will be a
bull's-eye so that's my review of the good liar please do not spoil the film
down below if you've seen it because it is now playing in the UK so and I think
that even if you don't see it in theaters this movie will do amazing
business on the ancillary market it's just so handsomely made and it is really
interesting I think you know if you were to stream this up anywhere I think you
would be quite pleased so again share your thoughts down below
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