Netflix has really cranked out the original content this year, and I am behind on all of it. Milly Bobby Brown’s Damsel serves up a pretty basic twist on a fantasy story. I think we all could tell from the first look that it was going to be your basic feminist fairytale, which isn’t inherently bad but it is all in the execution. And if we are being completely honest I don’t really have a lot of faith in Netflix writers. They seem more concerned about simply getting out content than creating and telling stories. But here we go with my actual review of Damsel.
https://vocal.media/geeks/damsel
This movie was a waste of everyone’s time; mine, the cast, anyone else that watched it. It was a really predictable twist on a really basic premise and quite honestly there were about 1000 ways to make it watchable and none of them were executed. I hate it when main characters are dumb, it really makes it unwatchable. The pacing is remarkably bad for a movie that clocks in at under two hours it really drags on. There is a clear act structure but it’s so heavy and there is absolutely no emotional drive moving it along. It is a 5/10 movie at best, there is nothing egregiously wrong with it but its just so predictable and boring.
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