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User Reviews for: The Offer

FCepulli
6/10  7 months ago
The show is good enough, nothing more than that. My major problem with it is the same that I have with a lot of this "historical" or "biographical" narratives: its too teleological. In other words, everything happens as if it had to happen in that very particular way, almost as if the gods wanted the movie to be made no matter what and were controlling everyone to be at the right place at the right time, or to say the only thing that would save the movie, or to have the only idea that could solve a seemingly unsolvable problem. It kinda works to built tension, but at the same time it takes away the authenticity of the story.
I also have a problem with some artistic decisions here and there, but the one thing that stuck with me the most was the constant overacting. I really don't understand why the director thought ok to make a lot of the actors do a different voice than their own, it's just constantly annoying. Some characters doesn't even act like real people sometimes but a caricature of one. There's even a scene where one of the characters makes a silly analogy between company executives and dogs, just so he could fire another minor executive while barking at him in the middle of a restaurant. These goofy scenes are scattered throughout the show and I think they doesn't really do justice to the overall tone of the narrative.
Besides that it's a fun watch and it serves the purpose to make you look for what really happened or not. As long as you don't come looking for anything that even comes close to The Godfather in terms of quality, you probably won't be disappointed.
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