Here
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Written by Eric Roth
Starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly
Release Date November 1st, 2024
Published November 2nd, 2024
This stinks. There’s just no other way to say it. Here stinks. This bizarre failed experiment from bored director Robert Zemeckis is downright embarrassing in execution. The concept is that the whole movie unfolds in a single, stationary shot set in the corner of an all American baby boomer living room. Well, it’s also the corner of a forest, the driveway of Ben Franklin’s son’s home, and the place where the Lazy Boy was invented… for some reason. Randomness is one of a myriad of problems with Here.
Here stars Tom Hanks as Richard, leading an ensemble as the son of Paul Bettany's Al, a World War 2 vet who returns home and, with his wife, Rose, played by Kelly Reilly, buys a suburban tract home with his G.I Bill and settles in to raise a family. While Dad grows miserable and drunk, working as a salesman of unknown products, Mom raises their three kids, two sons and a daughter. The youngest son and daughter are not part of the story and get little to no characterization. Why are they here? Who knows.
Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.
