Night Always Comes

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"Night Always Comes falls short of its ambition. There's a powerful story here - the moral erosion provoked by systems that always fail the same people - but the film never finds the most impactful way to tell it.

Atmosphere and performances elevate the material, with Vanessa Kirby in particular carrying the story's weight with a commitment that deserved a sharper script. Yet between redundancy, lack of subtlety, and indecision between bitter satire and taut thriller, the experience slips into frustration and overemphasis.

When the night ends, what remains is the sense that all that noise amounted to very little meaning."

Rating: C-

Oh deary me, what a mess.

First of all, the script and direction is atrocious. Lines are terrible, and in terms of direction, somehow they managed to turn every actor, including the two very talented main actresses, into awkward local amateur theater members. When everyone on set seems uncomfortable and stilted, that's when you know the director sucks.

Then, the story. OMG, the story. Our protagonist is the dumbest person on the planet, perhaps only superceded by her mother, except this character is so insanely poorly written, that she is just unreal. You have an appointment to sign loan papers with the current owner of the building you're buying and his lawyer at the loans office. You have an agreement with your mother to meet them there to sign the papers, and she doesn't turn up... Because she just changed her mind randomly, decided to buy a car instead, because hey it's my money and I don't really wanna buy this property anyway, I decided, and also I don't wanna call and let you know. I mean, WTF? What kind of regarded writing is this?

Let's fix this for you with a couple of other options that actually make sense, and anyone with a room temperature IQ could come up with in a minute:

1. The mom's an alcoholic or a drug addict and went on a bender.

2. The mom had an accident on the way there and is dead or in the ICU.

But then... What about this entire setup in the first place? Sure, loan papers need to be signed, but why this elaborate meet-up? If you need to sign papers, they'll prepare them at the office, and either send them to you, or have you drop by at your discretion to sign them. The seller of the property is completely uninvolved in this process, let alone his flipping lawyer. Why are these people even there? They're not the lender! It's this constant level of regardation that keeps frustrating you.

But anyway, let's continue. Now Vanessa needs to raise 25k by nine o'clock and deposit them into the seller's account for some reason. A...

'Night Always Comes' delivered a good flick. I do tend to like these gritty crime dramas, so I'm pleased to say that I can list this one in that bracket. Vanessa Kirby comes in with a strong performance, I'm happy to belatedly see her act as the front and centre of a film.

There is plenty of action across the 108mins, atmospherically the movie is spot on. It can get quite frustrating but seemingly by design, Doreen is particuarly infuriating - gaslighter of the century, that one! Bar Kirby, this also minimally has Randall Park, Julia Fox, Michael Kelly and Eli Roth.

I will say some of the dialogue didn't quite do it for me, mainly for Kirby in fact. It just felt unnatural/ill-fitting to me here and there, but in fairness Kirby's acting prowess and the dramatic events are sturdy enough that I quickly forgot any issues I had with that. Worth noting, still.

Added to the list of movies I wish I never watched. Not entertaining and writing was horrible. Sometimes I wonder how these types of movies even get made, but do not recommend watching this movie unless you are a family member of someone unfortunate to be casted in it.

What a trash movie, but from the current Hollywood, I'm not surprised. There's nothing good about this movie. Literally all the characters are depressed, in a bad mood, swearing and not a single smile or positivity in this garbage movie. The film mistakes non-stop depression, swearing, and misery for "realism" or "depth". All the characters are bad except that guy with the Down syndrom "Kenny". Main character is probably the worst of all of them. She sells her body. She steals car from her client. Then she steals money from her prostitute friend, then she gets her coworker in a trouble, asking him to break the safe with money which she stole from her friend. She's the lowest of the low with no morale and making wrong and bad decisions after decisions & she calls this "fighting for her family". This is ridiculous. This movie is very low quality garbage. Even AI would write a better script. The script of this movie attempts a cheap trick by trying to force the audience to sympathize with a destructive protagonist just because she has a family or a rough life. In reality, her actions are completely predatory toward the exact people trying to help her, making the "fighting for her family" justification feel entirely unearned and manipulative.