What did I think?
I’m honestly still not sure what I watched.
Eddington is one of those movies where, on paper, it sounds like it should work. Great cast. Timely themes. Beautiful cinematography. But once it got going, it just… didn’t do anything for me. I was entertained in the sense that I kept watching, but I can’t say I actually enjoyed it. It was all over the place. There were moments where I thought, “Okay, maybe this is building toward something interesting”, but it never quite got there.
And for a movie packed with recognizable faces, I couldn’t figure out why so many of them were even there. A bunch of performances felt totally wasted, like the actors showed up and were told, “Just stand there.”
About that pandemic storyline…
The Covid angle was what pushed this from “not for me” to “what are we doing here?” I don’t necessarily mind when movies take on real-world events IF there’s a clear reason. But Eddington danced around the topic so much that I couldn’t figure out what it was trying to say. Was it critiquing something? Validating something? Mocking something? I don’t know. It just waffled back and forth so many times that by the end, it felt like a shrug. And not in a subtle, artsy way, but more like they didn’t want to commit to a perspective so they didn’t have to deal with the backlash.
What worked (because I’ll give it that)
It was a pretty movie. The visuals were nice. There were some really well-shot scenes. I wasn’t bored, exactly. It just felt like style without much substance, or at least, not the kind of substance that added up to anything.
Who should watch it?
Honestly? I wouldn’t recommend it. Unless you’re just super curious why this movie has people so split, I’d skip it. This isn’t a “maybe it’ll work better for someone else” type of movie. It’s more of a “you’ll either think it’s profound or wonder how this got greenlit” experience. I fall into the latter camp.
If anything, I left the theater more confused about how this many big names signed onto a project that felt like it never knew what it wanted to be.
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