![]() ![]() This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.I like Anna Kendrick, but not enough to recommend that anyone commit themselves to watching this sober or in the theatre (or both) like I did. So many wrongs definitely don't make Mr Right a good time. Geddit? It's funny because the condoms are falling in slow-motion. Even the meet-cute is lame they bump into one another at a supermarket and knock over a pile of condom boxes. She's the manic pixie dream girl who always has a glass of wine in her hand and can't find the right guy. He's the charming gent who can dance, joke and hold a conversation about anything. Like I said, the two share great chemistry - but the creaky cliches are too obvious to ignore. So if the action doesn't work, does the romance? Not quite. Rather than leaning into its fun premise that could potentially get our heroes get into all manner of wacky situations, the film just sees the two prance around New Orleans making doe-eyes at each other, being chased by the cartel and winding up in a poorly-shot firefight in some dilapidated old mansion. If the dialogue is too much and insufferable, the action is uninspired and too thin and far between. ![]() ![]() After 90 minutes (and boy, what a long 90 minutes they were!) it gets really tiring. They've always got a cute quip or an intelligent reference up their sleeve, like they've OD'd on blue smarties, drunk six gallons of coffee and binged all six seasons of Community in a single night. Of course, a lot of movies fall victim to this from time to time, but never on this scale - every character in this film won't stop talking. They'd be carted off to the loony bin if they did. None of the characters feel like real people, because real people don't talk or behave like this. Max Landis' screenplay is so snappy and self-referential that any attempt at sincerity falls flat. The two flirt and banter back and forth, and at first it feels like harmless fun - after all, this is a comedy ain't it? But the frenetic irreverence soon takes its toll. Kendrick and Rockwell are both great actors who work well together, but the material they have to work with is really problematic. This is where Mr Right works the casting. In the right circumstances, this film should've been a slam-dunk you've got a fun premise (Kendrick plays Martha, a lovelorn 20-something who falls for Francis, played by Rockwell, a charismatic hitman) and a great lead couple with insatiable chemistry. Not because she's a terrible actress and not because she isn't as cute as a bag of kittens (she definitely is), but because my undying insistence on seeing anything she pops up in often means sitting through a film as terrible, cliched and boring as Mr Right. I think I need to reevaluate my policy on Anna Kendrick. Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell join forces for Mr Right, an action-comedy that sees the latter play a hitman with a conscience. ![]()
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