Worst opening in cinema history

"Renaissance" .. The meager text eliminates the charisma of Hugh Jackman

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From the first 10 minutes, you know that the movie “Reminiscence” is lost in consuming ideas, there is not a single original part, so it is not surprising if we know that the film failed in its opening week, which is the worst opening in cinema history, for a film that is shown in more than 3000 halls around the world And, of course, it is much easier to blame the epidemic than to admit that work is sluggish from the first minute.

Writer and director Lisa Joy - Jonathan Nolan's co-writer in the popular HBO series "Westworld", and his wife - are the driving force behind this film, and her husband's name appears in the production box, and she wanted to plant futuristic elements in an old crime story, but the result is disappointing .

The story is boring, and does not interest anyone except for those who have not watched films in his life, and the action is artificial and does not ignite the fuse of the drowsy shots. Australian Hugh Jackman is a star that gives any movie momentum, but here he looks like he's tired of acting, doesn't even want to give his least, and doesn't have any harmony with the story's heroine, Swedish Rebecca Ferguson, which created a void that killed the whole story, knowing that they appeared together better in The musical The Greatest Showman four years ago.

The story is packed with details that the human mind can't comprehend, surprises that don't surprise, and an ending that only those who can resist drowsiness can reach, or those who aren't preoccupied with anything else around them may find it more interesting than the movie.

The film is set in the future of the flooded city of Miami, Italy's Venice. Ex-soldier Nick (Jackman) uses an immersive machine and augmented reality headphones to lead his clients on their (ultimately vulgar) journeys into their memories.

His partner Watts (Tandaway Newton) helps him run a service that police officers use to investigate and solve crimes, everything goes smoothly except when Mae (Ferguson) steps in and asks to use the Memories Machine to find a lost key, Nick falls in love with her and the relationship ends after Mae suddenly disappears .

And you are overcoming your drowsiness and looking for something around you to eat, lend or entertain, because you know that the cliché of crime films, since the “Maltese Falcon” in 1941, says that the investigator will become obsessed to know how his girl disappeared!

Then you look for something else that entertains you and you sigh and you may look at your smart device knowing exactly, as if you were the writer and director of the movie, that Nick is going to mess with the memory machine to find Mae, and you know without looking at the screen that his assistant Watts will disagree with him, because she was able to reveal the truth about Mae before him And that behind the girl a conspiracy! He learns that he will investigate gang leader (Daniel Wu), a con man (Brett Cullen), and a corrupt cop (Cliff Curtis).

It doesn't take a genius or intelligence to learn what a film director is doing. It's as if she uses a textbook called How to Make an Old Crime Movie. She takes all the elements required for crime movies and distributes them in the script, then puts it in a futuristic template, and creates a poster for it similar to the 1982 movie Blade Runner. , because the latter by Ridley Scott has become the textbook for crime films in the context of science fiction.

Lisa Joy takes her main story from the 1944 masterpiece Laura, directed by Hungarian/Austrian Otto Preminger, starring Jane Tierney and Dana Andrews, and mixes it with elements from "The Maltese Falcon" and "Vanilla Sky" in 2001, and the masterpiece of her son-in-law Christopher Nolan in 2010.

Jackman's role is limited to a private detective with the character's general characterizations, which extinguishes the glow of his stardom and eliminates the lion's share of his charisma. Newton is only important when Jackman needs her to save him, and this includes a long shooting scene between her and the gang, after which she almost disappears from the movie, Ferguson is a good actress, but she is not the right character for the role of the film's malevolent, who uses the detective to achieve her goal.

Historically, crime films have been known for their complex and layered stories, and the complexity has come to the emergence of The Big Sleep, a 1946 film based on a Raymond Chandler story that has dazzled critics and audiences since its release.

At the time, film historians and critics asked Chandler, the author of the story, to explain some ambiguous points, but he said that he himself could not explain anything, and did not know how a particular character died, and whether her death was an accident or a murder!

Another group of historians said that the story is complex, but it is not impossible to understand, if the person saw the film and wrote notes with a pen and paper.

How did this movie succeed despite its complexities?

The answer is simple, because director Howard Hawks relied on the overwhelming stardom of the then two movie legends, Humphrey Bogart and his wife Lauren Bacall, what Jackman and Ferguson needed here to elevate the relationship to the level of Bogart and Bacol or Bogart and Bergman.

That's why Nick's obsession with finding Mai was so superficial.

Technically, Renaissance is a well-made movie, but the poor script and poorly written characters result in a poor and forgotten work.

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