bad movie; you’ve all been lying to me — to yourselves!

disorganised script, character wise, which is pretty funny for such broad strokes characters. but mexico looks beautiful, the final action scene is very enjoyable and the novelty of seeing clint and mcclaine together gets you most of the way through — also love when a bit of her old hollywood physicality slip through.

Despite being about an immigrant family, being lead by a Malaysian actress and referencing many of her (and other's) Chinese movies, Everything Everywhere All At Once is deeply American in the worst possible way. Beyond all the intentionally pointless guff—much of it as Reddit as anything ever put to screen—it has a message as banal as "be nice", and, more importantly, "you can do anything as long as you believe in yourself". There is no material reality, there is no class system, there are no politics; literal economic problems can be overcome metaphorically. The American dream logic expressed as stupidly as possible.