The Long Shot is completely opposite to feeling I had about The Dead Don’t Die insomuch as on paper it should not work. A romantic comedy in which the lead is yuk-yukking stoner Seth Rogen and long slim drink of rather attractive water Charlize Theron, meet back up after decades apart and ‘get it on’. Only in the world of Hollywood could this happen.
All told the two leads are the glue that holds this fairly flimsy story together. It is nothing you have not seen before even if you are a moderate filmgoer. There is a bit of cop-out because although Rogen’s character is a stoner and unlike a lot of his other characters he is actually very good at his job and very principled. So actually only a little bit stoner. Charlize Theron is a tough, politically minded politician who ambitious but in fact, has a conscious and goes with what she thinks is the right thing to do despite advice from her hard-nosed staffers. So not very politician-like then.
They get together and although unlikely it is the premise of the story so all is good with me. There is no doubt the Theron and Rogen have a chemistry that hauls the movie through the sticky ground and there is fun to be had and ultimately it is good entertainment.
For me the letting your hair down ‘drugging it up’ part of the movie did not work.
Nothing much really occurs as boy meets up with girl, gets with girl, breaks up, gets back with girl, realises his failings and lives happily ever after. That is it.
Supporting characters are hard-nosed, supportive and wimpy. Again nothing you haven’t seen before. The story has it’s grotesque baddy in a well covered-up Andy Serkis going full-on Rupert Murdoch and it whips along at fair old pace.
So all in all, nothing to wrong with The Long Shot, nothing too great with it and much like that candidate who did not quite elected within a month or so you will have forgotten all about it.
Review by DeletedBlockedParent2020-04-20T13:09:54Z
The Long Shot is completely opposite to feeling I had about The Dead Don’t Die insomuch as on paper it should not work. A romantic comedy in which the lead is yuk-yukking stoner Seth Rogen and long slim drink of rather attractive water Charlize Theron, meet back up after decades apart and ‘get it on’. Only in the world of Hollywood could this happen.
All told the two leads are the glue that holds this fairly flimsy story together. It is nothing you have not seen before even if you are a moderate filmgoer. There is a bit of cop-out because although Rogen’s character is a stoner and unlike a lot of his other characters he is actually very good at his job and very principled. So actually only a little bit stoner. Charlize Theron is a tough, politically minded politician who ambitious but in fact, has a conscious and goes with what she thinks is the right thing to do despite advice from her hard-nosed staffers. So not very politician-like then.
They get together and although unlikely it is the premise of the story so all is good with me. There is no doubt the Theron and Rogen have a chemistry that hauls the movie through the sticky ground and there is fun to be had and ultimately it is good entertainment.
For me the letting your hair down ‘drugging it up’ part of the movie did not work.
Nothing much really occurs as boy meets up with girl, gets with girl, breaks up, gets back with girl, realises his failings and lives happily ever after. That is it.
Supporting characters are hard-nosed, supportive and wimpy. Again nothing you haven’t seen before. The story has it’s grotesque baddy in a well covered-up Andy Serkis going full-on Rupert Murdoch and it whips along at fair old pace.
So all in all, nothing to wrong with The Long Shot, nothing too great with it and much like that candidate who did not quite elected within a month or so you will have forgotten all about it.