Quentin Tarantino Calls Out this Big Budget Netflix Thriller: “What the f–k is going on here?”
Quentin Tarantino is lucky that he’s a creative genius because his mouth gets him in trouble on the regular. Tarantino is prone to blurting out controversial hot takes, some for which he has to walk back and apologize. Case in point: When he sat for a T Magazine interview (with Bret Easton Ellis conducting), the Pulp Fiction director slammed Selma. Tarantino quipped that the Oscar-winning film “deserved an Emmy.”
Tarantino later offered a half-apology. He elaborated that he hadn’t actually seen the film but thought it looked like a T.V. movie. In that very same interview with T Magazine, Tarantino also bashed Guy Ritchie’s, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Tarantino started out sharing what he liked about the former Mr. Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone’s film and quickly pivoted to what didn’t work for him.
His hot take goes like this: “The first half was really funny and terrific but in the whole second half I’m like, ‘Oh, wait a minute, we were supposed to care about the bomb? What the f–k is going on here? I was supposed to pay attention to the stupid story?’”
What transpires in Guy Ritchie’s big-screen adaptation of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.?
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and the Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo’s only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.
I don’t know that I necessarily disagree with Tarantino. I critiqued the flick for the now-defunct ConTV and my review was fairly middle-of-the-road. My reaction was mixed. I didn’t love it. I didn’t hate it. However, I can safely say that it isn’t Ritchie’s best work.
If you haven’t yet seen the film and want to draw your very own conclusions, you can check it out on Netflix as of the publication of this post.
Ritchie co-wrote the screenplay for the flick with Lionel Wigram. They adapted the treatment from the classic television series by Sam Rolfe. Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, and Elizabeth Debicki star.
That’s all that I have for you at present, dear reader. Stay tuned for more hot takes from your favorite creatives as we unearth them. If you fancy keeping up with me on Threads, you can find me over there as @FunWithHorror.
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