Review of Tar

Tar (2020)
4/10
Unknown directing & starring = distaster!
7 November 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I watched this a few days after wasting time on The Wolf of Snowy Hollow, another directing effort by a relatively unknown (over-) actor. But it was a little better than this mess. Giving themselves so much (annoying) screen time turned what might've been good movies into distasterous wastes of time. Graham Greene & Timothy Bottoms were the draw. Greene played his role well, but Bottoms should've added his experience & refused to speak some of the ridiculous lines. One example: The power has gone off, so the only light are flashlights. Bottoms has been missing. When our "director"/"actor" finds him wounded, with something close behind, Bottoms calmly tells him, he needs to tell him something, then gives him a pep talk before giving him important instructions. From just after the beginning, & throughout, all the long, drawn out way to nearly the end--between amateur acting from the "supporting" cast as they display totally idiotic behavour making lame-brain choices--"director"/"actor" gives us close-ups of himself speechless, in shock. Ooh, and it has some "jumpy parts too", as another reviewer pointed out.

From now on, when I see that a movie is directed by an unknown actor who's he main star, it'll be a red flag to not even consider wasting time on.
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