Savage Grace (2007)
Starring Julianne Moore, Eddie Redmayne, Hugh Dancy, and Stephen Dillane
Directed by Tom Kalin
***This film is currently streaming on Netflix***
I don't know why in the world this movie was in my Instant Queue, but it's been there for a while. I must have read some decent review of it somewhere, because it's a film that wasn't on my radar at all.
And I'm tremendously thrilled that I watched Savage Grace if only so that I can now remove it from the queue and never think about it again. While watching this movie, I couldn't help but wonder at what point have you invested too much time in a movie to stop watching even though you're completely aware that the movie is pure and utter crap? I got 45 minutes into this biographical tale detailing the 1940s-1960s life of Barbara Baekeland (Julianne Moore) and her incestuous relationship with her son, Tony (Eddie Redmayne), and I was ready to check out. But then I said to myself, this is halfway over...and according to the Netflix description, Tony's gonna kill Barbara so that's gotta be somewhat interesting, right?
Well, nope...it wasn't interesting. Not in the least. All the characters (all real-life people, apparently) seemed completely fake, lacking any kind of true depth. None of their emotional arcs seemed like arcs at all, and I didn't understand any of the motives or reasoning behind their ever-changing thought processes as scene after scene progressed. Julianne Moore never seems to come to grasp of who Barbara really is. I never once had any sense of why the heck she was the twisted rich housewife she was portraying. Eddie Redmayne as her son seemed rather normal and then appeared to change into some psychopath on a dime.
Really despised this one. That rating below doesn't come often, so in that regard, congrats to those involved with this dreck.
The RyMickey Rating: F
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