At the moment, the film has only 22% positive opinions on Rotten Tomatoes.
The actor Chris Pine debuted as a director with Poolmana film in which he also stars and which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.
With a cast that also includes Danny DeVito, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Annette Beningamong others, the film is a parody of the mystery genre similar in its premises to The Big Lebowski. Its script, written by Pine himself and Ian Gotlertells the story of a disastrous pool attendant in Los Angeles who uncovers a conspiracy centered on the city’s water supply.
At the moment, the film has only 22% positive opinions on Rotten Tomatoes. And practically all the most important titles of the Anglo-Saxon press have agreed to dedicate unkind words to him.
Reviews destroyed Chris Pine’s Poolman
The Variety Critic Owen Gleiberman states, “Not only is it the worst movie I’ve seen during the fall festival season, but it also would have been one of the worst movies of any year it was released“.
On IndieWire, Siddhant Adlakha calls it “disastrous” from the same headline. If it weren’t for Pine’s presence, the critic adds, “it would be easy to take ‘Poolman’ for an attempt to make a movie by aliens who only knew cinema by hearsay.” “It lasts 100 minutes, but more than 99 of them are spent in silent boredom, if not irritation,” he emphasizes.
“Do yourself a favor and watch The Big Lebowski instead of this,” advises Matt Maytum in the British Total Film. While, in The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Rechtshaffen laughs at attempts to “reinvent Chinatown as a Coen Brothers movie” and talks about an “insufferably tedious” story that is only saved by Stephen Tobolowski’s performance as a practicing rabbi. drag queen
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