4/16/2024 0 Comments Buddy wahlberg filmsUnsurprisingly, Me Time has been reviled by fans and critics alike.įor far too long, I’ve been infuriated by the direction modern cinema has taken. The third act progresses through the motions of ‘the disaster’ and hero separation with frightening transparency, finishing with an unearned emotional climax, proving there were no consequences or value to anything. There’s no attempt at character development or chemistry. As the remainder truly unravelled and lost any semblance of story, I could only think of the other, superior, comedic set-pieces whose ideas this film was blatantly copying. It was like watching a bad kid’s film turned lazy college flick turned uh-oh-we’ve-only-filled-half-our-run-time-what-now? Party! It’s not entirely clear what the film wants to be, opening with low-brow, slapstick ‘humour’, before jarringly transitioning towards something raunchier, with an attempt to inject underdeveloped conflict. This is reiterated by Alan being portrayed as a brow-beaten husband desperate to rid himself of his wife’s clutches, despite abandoning her with their children to go to a party and frequenting strip clubs such that he is recognised as a first-name-basis regular. Ironically, for a film that dedicates lengthy dialogue to ‘woke’ virtue signalling, it’s entirely evident where its values lie. The plot, if it’s possible to credit this loosely incoherent jumble of scenes with such an accolade, is propelled by stay-at-home dad Kevin Hart being left to his own devices for a week. Me Time unites Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg as the two leads, though neither develop their characters beyond their existing personas. Were it not for Kevin Hart repeatedly shouting the film’s title, you might forget which mediocre Netflix original was filling the space on your screen.
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