The second film of Inarritu’s ‘hyperlink’ trilogy may occasionally feel overwrought by design, but the top-tier performances from Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro give it the requisite emotional intensity to work.
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The second film of Inarritu’s ‘hyperlink’ trilogy may occasionally feel overwrought by design, but the top-tier performances from Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro give it the requisite emotional intensity to work.
Inarritu’s surrealistic personal work about the crisis of Mexican identity fails to overcome its early sluggishness and narrative inertia despite many moments of visual and technical flourishes, making it his career-worst film.