Everything Everywhere All At Once
“Everything Everywhere All At Once”
OK to start off this movie is bonkers. I feel in a good way though. Its original which is something that Hollywood just doesn’t do much these days. They are too busy rebooting or re imagining things or old movies instead of coming up with new original ideas that we have never seen before. Now given that this movie is most definitely NOT going to be for everyone, in fact most will not like it or get it. If you are brave enough to watch this movie and have the focus to pay attention to everything that is going on. I think that you will find that no matter what story telling device that they are using that this is still at its heart a story about families and the relationships that we all have.
This movie staring Michelle Yeoh as a woman who is unhappy in life living above her family owned laundry mat dealing with the stress of tax season. When she visits the IRS to ask for more time to get her affairs in order she is thrusted into an adventure across the multiverse. She goes on an adventure to try and stop an evil being from destroying the universe. Why her she asks over and over again, she is just a regular woman why her. This question will get answered later and I cant tell you why or else that would ruin it. This movie is chocked full of amazing action and mind bending plot twists. It is at times absurd and ridiculous and on more than one occasion I felt a bit lost. I feel like they pull it all together at the end and get their point across.
We get to see Ke Huy Quan who I have not seen in a movie since he played Data in the Goonies and he is amazing in this return to the screen. We get an of course amazing performance by James Hong legendary Hollywood actor and the new comer Stephanie Hsu and a crazy performance by the incredible Jamie Lee Curtis. Like a I said earlier this movie is most certainly not for everyone but for those that are brave enough to give it a try I think there are at least a few things that they will enjoy from it and that no matter how crazy it gets that deep down it is still just a movie about a family struggling to find their way and at the same time just want to be understood and loved for who they are not because of the promise of what could have been but what they are. 4 out of 5 Yellow Suckers
*This movie review was originally published in The Current River Observer as the River Reels article written by Jeffrey Riggs
