: Stranger Than Fiction
I’ve been looking forward to this for ages since the trailer premiered many months ago (it seems like years), but while I Iiked it, the long anticipation made it somewhat of a disappointment. It has a number of aspects to it that weren’t clear in the trailer (such as the romance), but the setup of the premise — established in 30 seconds in the trailer — takes a long time to get going, and the resolution doesn’t quite hit the mark. It’s good, but somehow not totally satisfying. It feels a bit like a cop-out, as though we, the viewer, were cheated or not given a clever enough ending. It’s not that the ending’s not good, it is; it’s just that the setup is so long and complicated and we expect a bigger payoff and the ending sort of trickles. It’s got a lot of excellent moments, however, including much that’s not in the trailer (good), but in the end it gets a B instead of an A.
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