Here Review: Visually Striking, Meaningless Melodrama By is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get. is a drama movie gift-wrapped with potential. With Zemeckis as director, a screenplay from Eric Roth, , and headlining the cast, a musical score from Alan Silvestri, cinematography from Don Burgess, and costumes from Johanna Johnston, this movie features the same creative team as 1994’s Forrest Gump.
There’s something poetic about how, 30 years after Zemeckis made one of my favorite movies of all time, he reunited his old team to make a new movie that also spans decades. Unfortunately, Here is a middling, disappointing movie that never brings its premise anywhere meaningful. It’s tough to compare this film to something like , but getting back the same creative team leads to inevitable comparisons.
Even without bringing that film into the conversation, this movie is a mixed bag. There’s an excellent concept here, as the camera stays in one fixed position throughout the runtime. We have scenes dating back to the age of the dinosaurs, the asteroid that wiped them out, the Native Americans that once lived there, the creation of American civilization, and we have the family we spend the most amount of time with, featuring a love story between Richard (Hanks) and Margaret (Wright).
It’s an astonishing feat of filmmaking that makes audiences feel like a fly on the wall. It’s based on Richard McGuire’s graphic novel, and there are many moments wh.
