Like a football game, Blue Bayou moves ahead in starts and spurts despite some missteps. It eventually scores some points but fumbles the ending. The acting was on point, though, even the young Sydney Kowalske.
The real highlight is the cinematography. The story itself, while not uninteresting, is kind of a typical romance-that-should-not-be wrapped around events that are to be described as histrocial fiction.
Worth watching but nothing extraordinary.
I am extremely surprised by this film, I expected Fury or Bastards. I really liked this. I find the description blurp "a rock star general bent on ..." to be an incredibly poor description.
Pitt is a caricature of a modern Patton, there are a number of troupe characters that surround him, he has a marriage, he has his legacy, his "impossible" mission, it's a train wreck with Obama, cable news, leaks, "nation building" and such. Pretty good armchair primer on the issues for a lot of people and a good watch.
I see more of an easy to swallow Catch 22 meets Strange Love meets modernized Patton.
At times I wished it would cut loose on political commentary, but it does a good job.
wtf is with this movie? long useless shots, didn't undrestand a f****** bit what's the point of the movie
That Billy Mitchell guy is a real sore looser.
