Did he or didn't he?
- The Undoing review by MP
Intriguing. Did he do it, or didnt he?
It did keep me guessing for quite a while.
Hugh Grant did a very good job of sucking you in with his charm offensive. Nicole Kidman looked very beautiful, but was stilted in her performance.
Donald Sutherland added much gravitas.
An enjoyable watch.
6 out of 6 members found this review helpful.
Much ado about not quite enough
- The Undoing review by JL
Over-written and overly melodramatic. To give credit where it's due, though, the six long episodes knew how to play with our expectations and keep us amused as likely blame for the murder swept all over the place, from one individual to another. So far, so good. But the entire piece was ludicrously over-long. A friend joined us at the halfway point (after three hour-long chapters) and hadn't really missed anything that mattered. The eventual guilty party was as predictable as several others (so not a staggering Agatha Christie-style surprise) but the playing out of the denouement did manage to wrong-foot us. It was even more melodramatic than we expected. So congrats for that.
2 out of 4 members found this review helpful.
No.
- The Undoing review by SR
Melodramatic, obvious. Hugh literally chews the scenery. Poor Nicole, what has she done to her face, she can't emote naturally and has to pull strange expressions to compensate. Time waster. Just no.
1 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
terrible
- The Undoing review by CP Customer
This absolutely makes me loose faith in awards, look at all the awards it has!!!
Its true that actors need to choose between having plastic surgery that keeps you looking like a doll, or doing their job.
I'm sure people like this are annoying in real life but really? why bother making art about such stupid boring vacuous people , this has been done a million times before and much better.
0 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
Overlong and Overwritten, but Watchable Whodunnit Melodrama Based on a Novel
- The Undoing review by PV
I liked this and the EXTRA film with Hugh Grant etc nattering about the film. They point out that New York is a character in the film - well, kind of, but it's hardly Dickens' London.
The first disc is by far superior, esp episode 1 and 2 which kept me guessing. As it went on, the story and my interest sagged badly, especially the legal scenes, though the full amorality of the law is on display here from the savvy but cynical black female lawyer (British actor like Noah Jupe, child/teen star des nose jours).
Donald Sutherland gives his last performance aged 80-ish with the most impressive pair of old man eyebrows I have ever seen, I think...
Many people are fascinated by the super-rich (see the popularity of Succession and, indeed, Dallas back in the day). I am not. Maybe because I am not female? Certainly the family and marriage melodrama bits bored me as they might not those of a female persuasion.
Danish female director Susanne Bier makes it all very Scandi Noir, which is on trend, I have no idea what the source novel is like. But if they cut out the soapy melodrama it could have been 4 episodes only, maybe 3. Focus on the whodunnit bit and dump the family dynamics and soap opera. But hey...
The plot is utterly unbelievable, of course, especially as it plods on in later episodes, but then it is fiction, not fact, and MELODRAMA, so one must expect it.
Worth a watch, 3 stars
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