Yeah yeah yeah, SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
Ok, so I was not right, but I wasn't wrong. As I stated in the last preview, the gender-switching reincarnation issue was as obvious as I anticipated. But that turned out to be just a setup for the real ending. So... I was wrong on at least that account. I was also wrong to assume that this was merely an "ok" comedy, since it turned out to be quite a great one. The ending is simply hilarious. This works as a damn great black comedy, but for anyone to think that this was actually suspenseful... well, I frankly don't know what's wrong with you.
So... for being a pretty funny comedy, I'll amuse myself and give this film a 10. If I were taking it seriously, I'd give it a 2 at most, but serious it was not. There's another Kenneth Branagh film that I will have to reconsider now, that film was "Frankenstein", which left me with the impression that Kenneth Branagh is an incompetent fool as a director. After seeing "Dead Again", which employed an equal amount of extremely unrealistic dramatic acting, I realize perhaps I missed the point. Like the original "Frankenstein", that film was probably also meant to be a comedy. Silly me. Then again, probably Branagh really is incompetent, but in his incompetence manages to make fun of himself pretty well. I guess we'll never know.
Congratulations, Kenneth, you get my high marks on "Dead Again" for making me laugh, just don't disappoint me and try to claim that you were dead serious when you were making this movie.
Ok, so I was not right, but I wasn't wrong. As I stated in the last preview, the gender-switching reincarnation issue was as obvious as I anticipated. But that turned out to be just a setup for the real ending. So... I was wrong on at least that account. I was also wrong to assume that this was merely an "ok" comedy, since it turned out to be quite a great one. The ending is simply hilarious. This works as a damn great black comedy, but for anyone to think that this was actually suspenseful... well, I frankly don't know what's wrong with you.
So... for being a pretty funny comedy, I'll amuse myself and give this film a 10. If I were taking it seriously, I'd give it a 2 at most, but serious it was not. There's another Kenneth Branagh film that I will have to reconsider now, that film was "Frankenstein", which left me with the impression that Kenneth Branagh is an incompetent fool as a director. After seeing "Dead Again", which employed an equal amount of extremely unrealistic dramatic acting, I realize perhaps I missed the point. Like the original "Frankenstein", that film was probably also meant to be a comedy. Silly me. Then again, probably Branagh really is incompetent, but in his incompetence manages to make fun of himself pretty well. I guess we'll never know.
Congratulations, Kenneth, you get my high marks on "Dead Again" for making me laugh, just don't disappoint me and try to claim that you were dead serious when you were making this movie.