what's going on to all my movie fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott
back again with a brand new movie review and today we're breaking down the new david cronenberg
written and directed body horror sci-fi film by the name of crimes of the future a movie i got
the chance to check out in theaters the other night and i'ma let you all know by the end of
this review if this film is worth checking out in theaters we'll be discussing that and so much more
in today's spoiler free review but before we get into the details if you enjoyed this video make
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sharing your opinion on the film in the comments section from your pros your cons your thoughts on
the direction the performances the writing of the film the the nuances and the body [ __ ] were you
disturbed were you disappointed by the film and if you are a fan of david cronenberg why don't
you share with me your top three david cronenberg films that you have seen in the comments section
let's have some dialogue around those topics which speaking of david cronenberg let's go
ahead and start this review off by talking about the writer and director who i personally thought
his ideas and his concepts and his thoughts on the human evolution and what it means to be an
artist to me was very impressive like it was very cerebral very methodical and i thought his
direction was very bold at times some of it worked some of it didn't but for the most part i applaud
what he was trying to do with this film now i have personally i've seen two of his films uh the the
fly the remake of the fly and video jerome and i'm a fan of those films and i completely understand
why he's considered on our tour director but also i understand why he is given that title
of the king of the body [ __ ] which we'll talk about that topic a little bit later but again
i'm a fan of his direction this film i think if you're a fan of his body of work which i
definitely want to explore more of you'll be impressed by his direction as well but let's
pivot and talk about these performances who i personally think everyone was great i thought
everyone brought their a game there was no weak link amongst the cast i think of supporting
characters like for example scott spiegsman who plays lane whose character is really not
that involved in the first half but something that happens within the first five minutes of this film
that comes back into fruition a little bit later his character gets more involved in the narrative
i think of kristen stewart who i'm such a big fan of and the days of her just being
known for twilight i think we're well past those days she's such a great actress and she
is a supporting character in this film who goes by the name of timlin who she is someone that
works within the national organ registry who takes a particular liking in one of our main
characters and i thought kristen which is really great she's very soft-spoken in this role but she
also has like these this quirkiness to her and kind of mysterious at points in her chemistry
with viggo morgan i thought was fantastic so if you're a fan of kristen stewart again she's not
the lead but she's a supporting character it has a good 10 minutes of screen time and in those 10
minutes i thought she was fantastic but speaking of fantastic let's let's talk about one of our
leads here who is lee sedu who i have been a fan of for such a long time she goes by the name of
caprice who she is the partner of seoul who can observe and tattoo his organs in a very personal
operating theater now to me lisa do is one of those actresses who is just timeless you can put
her in any decade of film and she's going to fit in perfectly she is the the emotional residence in
this film she holds the emotional weight she has such a great screen presence she is number one
incredibly talented but also incredibly beautiful in this film and she just has
this kind of intellect about her character that i really enjoyed and again just such a great actress
but her scene partner in this film the other lead viggo morgenson who his career speaks for himself
and he's worked with uh david korenberger in the past and you can tell that synergy is there that
familiarity with them to work together is very much present in his film he is our main character
who goes by the name of saul now he is the man in this film who can grow new organs inside his body
and he and his partner do these kind of live performances of art in this film and viggo
morganson not only is he's fantastic but the thing that i really want to applaud him with
is the commitment to his role his character as i read there he's constantly evolving he's growing
these new organs and as you would imagine that's some painful [ __ ] and we'll talk about the pain
or lack of pain in this film and the evolution in this movie in this world building but he is
going through a lot of like transformations in this movie and him just the way he walked
the way he talked and constantly coughing and just the commitment it never was short changed he
always committed and it was consistent within the narrative so i really again we all know viggo is
a fantastic one of the greatest actors of our time but he's really really fantastic in this movie and
again i thought everyone brought their a game but switching over to other elements about this film
that i enjoyed and kind of touching on the story i kind of purposely didn't give away too much of the
plot because i'll be honest with you all i didn't watch the trailer of this movie i went in knowing
david cronenberg's work i love this cast sci-fi [ __ ] right up my alley so i stayed away from
the marketing but just to give you all a little bit of what you're walking into if you're not
too familiar with this film now without getting too much into the minutia this is a world where
imagine if the human species bodies undergoes new transformations and this whole idea of pain
is no longer a thing and what people are doing in this world they're performing surgeries on
one another and in this world when you're doing that it's very erotic it's the new sex as they
say in this film so again those are just some of the elements that this film has to tackle but
the thing that i enjoyed about this narrative kind of focusing more on the themes here i found the
conversation about the policing of someone's body and the people that want to do with their bodies
and the organs when that they want to display it in this art form very timely and if you know
what i mean in regards to controlling your body and wanting to do what you want to do with your
body but you have people policing what you want to do is very timely in today's society so i really
enjoyed that narrative as well as the different politics and the different groups that are held
within this underground performance art was really interesting and of course we can't forget the ever
going conversation about human evolution that david cronenberg has to say in this film so
another thing that i want to mention the idea of beauty in this movie it's more internal versus
external and how these different characters are again aroused by performing surgery and again
they're they're not doctors these are literally people in the middle of streets cutting each other
up because they're getting this is there's no pain in this world so as you would imagine people are
seeking and falling in love with performing cutting people's faces and legs and limbs so
which brings me to the body horror of this element which i gotta admit this is pivoting over to my
criticisms of the movie now i am a fan of david cronenberg's work and i know from just seeing
clips of different films he's done he knows how to handle the body [ __ ] and i have to say for
me i was disappointed by the body [ __ ] because i was looking for i felt like it was tamed and it
and i didn't feel like it was it didn't push the envelope enough as much as i was expecting because
especially kind of hearing and this is probably my own fault i heard that there were people that was
like and again everyone's tolerance to pain and horror and body [ __ ] is different but
i was on an impression that people were like walking out of the theater because it was that
grotesque but it's really not that bad for me for my personal taste and also too i felt like knowing
david cronenberg's work him being someone that relies a lot on practicality some of the visual
effects they weren't bad by any means like by the way going back to my positive the production the
score all that stuff was great the cinematography but they chose to go with more of the the visual
effects when they were like cutting people up and their stomachs and i really wish they would have
leaned more on the practical elements that i know david cronenberg's a master at so i was a little
bit disappointed by the body [ __ ] and again my tolerance might be a lot different from you
all so you might going to be like this is the most disgusting film i've ever seen to me i found to be
very tame now getting back into another criticism i always applaud a director that doesn't hold its
audience in hand and telling hey this is what this means this is what that means but i felt like we
didn't really explore the high concept uh uh deep enough in this film like there's a lot of things
that are presented in this film and i thought that the plots didn't really have that many payoffs
like for example without giving too much away there's a particular plot that's brought up in
regards to a beauty pageant that doesn't come to fruition at all and there's literally like a five
to seven minute scene talking about this pageant and we never get to pay off for that and also
there's an exchange between chris and stewart's character and vigo morgan's character regarding
sharing a more intimate moment with each other that never really comes to fruition
so those are like two examples of just moments and ideas and concepts that were introduced
in the first and second half of the film but we really don't have much of a payoff at all
of of those things and another thing that comes to mind is there are moments in which
i really wanted the world to be built out more like i felt like it was very small
and even though there are police involved there's the government involved we now and
there's a particular group of people that want to go a certain route of the human evolution and
they're they're admit this group is meant to be global right but we never really i never felt it
was big enough and and telling that narrative and also too and this is just like a little nitpick i
found there was a lot of points especially in the second half there's a lot of dialogue and a lot of
exposition that really slowed down the momentum of the movie and last thing i want to mention without
giving away the ending the ending to me was a bit disappointing and very abrupt and i felt
like there was like another 15 minutes to really dive deeper into ending up this narrative so
those are my pros those are my cons before i give you all my score and let you know if i think it's
worth checking out if you stuck around to the point in the video thank you so much before we
wrap things up make sure to like share comment and subscribe to the channel overall i will say
as a fan of sci-fi as a fan of david cronenberg this was a film that i enjoyed for the most part
i enjoyed the narrative the themes on the body evolution what it means to be an artist what it
means to control your narrative in your body and the the chemistry and the leads and the supporting
characters all fit within this narrative again i found some of the elements i wish they would
have expanded more on the world i wish that we would have gotten more of the practicality and
the body [ __ ] i wish the body horror was heightened a little bit more but overall i
lean towards more of the positives on this film so i'm gonna give this a three out of five now
again you're a fan of david cronenberg i recommend you give this a watch if you're someone that's not
familiar with his work i don't know if this is gonna be a film for the general audience again
take that as you will i recommend you give it a watch and when you do let me know your thoughts in
the film again pros cons thoughts on the direction the story the body [ __ ] did you feel like it was
disappointing were you disturbed by it what did you think of the film overall and again share with
me your favorite david cronenberg films in the comments section so again thank you for watching
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