Serenity - L'Isola dell'Inganno

Andrew Barker

Shortly after the publication of his short story "The Vane Sisters" - in which a plot twist is revealed through a hidden acrostic message in the final paragraph - Vladimir Nabokov quipped that the narrative trick he employed was something that "can only be tried once in a thousand years of fiction." Perhaps we'll need to call for a similar moratorium, albeit for entirely different reasons, on the type of twist that powers Steven Knight's soggy, island-bound noir "Serenity." Distinguished only by its starry cast and cinematographer Jess Hall's beautiful lensing of some idyllic Mauritius locations, "Serenity" sees a usually reliable screenwriter-turned-director take a bold swing and miss the mark completely, so intent on pulling the rug out from under you that he never notices you weren't even standing on it. [...]

di Andrew Barker, articolo completo (3606 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Variety 24 gennaio 2019