I watched The Trial of the Chicago 7 and it functions well and delivers the pace and wit you'd expect from a Sorkin courtroom drama but it didn't feel like the approach the story needed. Where's was the passion? The fire? The fury? It's depicted in the film, but I didn't feel it in the filmmaking.
The cast absolutely is fantastic but they're in need of a more revolutionary or countercultural film, where this one felt shackled to ill fitting narrative conventions. It's a crowdpleaser, and this story should not please the crowd. It doesn't feel like the right story to play it safe with, narratively or culturally.
What are some other films that are otherwise good, just made by the wrong person or told with the wrong approach?
Submitted October 20, 2020 at 04:41AM by _BestThingEver_ https://ift.tt/3kdlJm9
