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The
Laundromat (2019)
  
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Director:
Steven
Soderbergh |
COUNTRY
USA |
GENRE
Drama/Comedy |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
The
Laundromat |
RUNNING
TIME
95 minutes |
RELEASED BY
Netflix |
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Producer:
Scott Z. Burns
Lawrence Grey
Gregory Jacobs
Steven Soderbergh |
Screenwriter (based on a book by Jake Bernstein):
Scott Z. Burns |
Review
This
is an ambitious, wide-ranging film about money laundering and various
other types of corruption in our day and age. Basically theft anno
2019. Director Steven Soderbergh tells his story with the help of
white-collar criminals Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas (inspired by
real-life characters) who giddily break the fourth wall with their
ostensible eccentricity. It's just that their characters and lines
aren't very funny or interesting, which makes them uncharismatic
despite the half-hearted efforts of the two veteran actors. And when
The Laundromat occasionally touches on something sincere, it
quickly negates it by venturing into other territories and anecdotes
in which Soderbergh does his best to keep up the film's lack of
focus. There is a stellar cast on display here, but all that The
Laundromat ultimately can boast is biting off more than it can chew.
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