Mary 2019
- Director: Michael Goi
- Based on Book: no
- Cast: Gary Oldman, Emily Mortimer
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor/actress in:
- Gary Oldman – many including Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern Are Dead
- Emily Mortimer – Relic, The Bookshop,
Hugo, Shutter Island, Lars and the Real Girl, Paris je t’aime, Bright Young
Things, Young Adam, The 51st State, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Notting
Hill, Elizabeth
- Why? Gary Oldman
- Seen: 16 October 2024
Gary Oldman can play absolutely anything. Even a normal type guy like
David, a loser fishing guide in Georgia, USA. He buys an abandoned half-wrecked
ship called Mary. His wife Sarah
(Mortimer) is not happy about it but she forgives him and they and their two
daughters enthusiastically renovate and launch it.
But scary things happen on it and it becomes a scary movie.
It got a lot of bad reviews and it’s certainly no masterpiece – one wonders why Oldman and Mortimer accepted roles in it. With that said, they both give it a good shot and bring a certain amount of credibility to this many times told story, and make it worth watching. It startled me several times, which almost never happens with scary movies.
3* of 5
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