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Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton. © 2022. MGM, FilmNation Entertainment and Kennedy Miller Mitchell. Directed by George Miller. I Grant You Three Wishes, Based on Your Heart Desires. It Can Be Anything!
After 7 years, George Miller is back again in the filmmaking landscape by creating a film that includes a genie and weird magical stuff that makes sense. That's the crazy mind of Miller but in this film, everything is filled with Miller's style. It's a one-of-a-kind film that studios won't support anymore due to budget and marketing reasons but fuck the film executives. Let my boy create whatever he wants and it better be good in the end. Well, it was good but this film will be another example of why Hollywood will stray away from these kinds of films for the better or worse. Join me into the world of Adult-Aladdin but not the other shit you are thinking about. A more mature story filled with magical shit everywhere that will glaze your visual experience. Welcome to the world of wishes. Plot: The film follows Alithea, a narrative scholar who uncorks The Djinn, a mystical being who has been imprisoned multiple times over thousands of years. The Djinn recants his history to Alithea, detailing the many loves and tragedies he has catalyzed in three ancient societies. But Alithea learns about his true trauma and the missing piece in his magical life. When going into this film, I expected to see a bunch of George Miller visuals and weird storytelling that makes sense. That's what I got out of that and it works. The visuals are dazzling with great visual and practical effects. I really loved the costume design in this film and it works for every time period that it switches to. The cinematography is very interesting with a lot of unique shots and visual language that helps the story make sense between each location. The production design is amazing. A lot of detail mixed with visual effects help the scene itself look seamless. The CGI is pretty great for a mid-budget film and I feel like the effects are the standouts of this film. The visual daze makes this film unique because, without that, it would be just dialogue without any visual help. The cinematography and production design including costumes and sets are the ones who carried this film. But the story itself is also pretty good. It's basically a mature story of Aladdin but told on a different level. The genie (or Djinn) tells his long story about how he got into this situation and gives an opportunity to Alithea played by Tilda Swinton to grant three wishes. It's an interesting story about going through the history of time but with magical elements and on top of that, you got a genie who can grant wishes to random people. While the setting looks like old history, Miller directs it like a true fantasy film and makes it eye-popping on screen. That's unique to Miller's filmmaking style and it works very great here. We get to see the origin of Djinn, all the way to the present time. It's an interesting story and the characters are pretty good. Idris Elba is still great as always with his performances and he does a great job here. I like his dry humor and his genie attitude. Tilda Swinton as Alithea was also pretty good. She gives the emotional part of the story and we get to have more time with her in the final 20 minutes of the film and we get to see what wishes she wished for. The wish she said was pretty interesting and it helped what is story is trying to tell and it flows with the main plot. I love when filmmakers go for crazy original stories like this and I'm glad this film exists. But even with original stories, it might have some problems along the way and it may affect the future of big-budget original films. While I appreciate the original story and the filmmaking behind it, there were some plot issues during the film. One of which is setting the main character aside throughout the second act and maybe the final act of the film. Tilda Swinton didn't get to do much while only commentating on Idris Elba's character story. I thought we would see Tilda's character go through the events in some magical way to get a sense of a character's feelings. But unfortunately, it was just a retelling and if I was in Tilda's shoes, I would get lost mid-way. That's why I like how they implemented the storytelling technique through show and not tell. Well, it was show and tell basically. I kind of disappointed with how it was executed but sometimes, that's a good thing. Another flaw was the ending. Yes, the ending but the real reason the ending didn't work for me fully is that I thought the film was over. Once a happy scene was concluded, I thought this was it but not really. It happened like two or three times until we got the true ending. It bugged me a lot and while I liked the actual ending, I didn't like how the final act kept dragging until the film actually reached for a true ending. That bugged me a lot and I wish they could've cut it short in my opinion. Some of the characters in the story of Djinn were pretty weird and they didn't serve a lot to the story. Basically, some plot issues and weird ending editing cuts, but it didn't take away and enjoyment of the visual daze from Miller. This film was very unique in its presentation. The direction is still alive from Millar's style of filmmaking. I really loved the visuals and cinematography of this film including the production of this film. From set design to costumes, it worked very well and it could receive any nominations. The performances are enjoyable but the plot was underdeveloped and it could've used more work on it, especially the ending. It was a lot of movie, but fewer connecting parts to the main character. But in the end, I enjoyed this film for what it is and it was indeed a visual daze from beginning to end. Now Playing Only in Theaters. Vizeit Score: "B" (Share this review with your film friends and on social media! Thank you for your continue support.) Copyright © 2022. Vizeit Studios. All Rights Reserved. Review Written By: Everardo Garcia Jr.
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