{"id":1516,"date":"2019-04-03T15:06:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T15:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2022-07-21T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T17:16:10","slug":"review-roundup-february-and-march-2019-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/03\/review-roundup-february-and-march-2019-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"Serenity (2019) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Serenity-Review.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Serenity-Review.jpg 768w, https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Serenity-Review-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Serenity-Review-640x427.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway in Serenity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019ve probably heard that <em>Serenity <\/em>has an insane plot twist, but that doesn\u2019t even begin to cover it. For the film\u2019s first half, audiences are led to believe that it is a modern-day tropical noir thriller along the lines of <em>Body Heat. <\/em>As it unravels, however, it morphs into a complete mind-meddle that would have made Rod Serling proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Featuring a stellar cast (Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane), the film is worth seeing, even though its story eventually goes in a direction that is jarring, to say the least. Writer\/director Steven Knight deserves praise for his creative ambition. He doesn\u2019t just pull a one-eighty after the film\u2019s setup, he does several three-sixties before settling on a film that faces in the complete opposite direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This sounds great and wild on paper, and it is admirable how the ambitious film strives to be something groundbreaking. <em>Serenity<\/em> only partially succeeds, however, as the film comes close to tearing itself apart and it ultimately doesn\u2019t reach the emotional heights that it aspires to in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Serenity <\/em>is a worthwhile experiment that doesn\u2019t completely pay off, but it\u2019s fascinating to watch it try. In the years to come and with repeat viewings, it could very well become a more-appreciated cult classic. For now, however, it\u2019s an admirable head-scratcher that falls short of greatness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>GRADE: B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve probably heard that Serenity has an insane plot twist, but that doesn\u2019t even begin to cover it. For the film\u2019s first half, audiences are led to believe that it is a modern-day tropical noir thriller along the lines of Body Heat. As it unravels, however, it morphs into a complete mind-meddle that would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3225,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/3225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherpeoplesmovies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}