2024   Sony Pictures

Rated:  PG-13

Length:  1 hr  44min

Drama

Directed by:  Robert Zemeckis

Starring:  Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, and Kelly Reilly.

“Here, in a cinematic journey through time……time flies.”

From the very beginning you realize the camera is set. It never moves. The first thing you see are dinosaurs with a massive volcano in the background. Then the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Fast forward as you watch through the same lens pointed the same way…the ice age, then re-greening of the land. Onto the cave-men, then the Native American Indians, and then the colonists clear land and build a Mansion that is seen through the rest of the film. It is a brief look at history from the dinosaurs on through the present through a fixed lens on one plot of land.

Years later a house is constructed around the camera as a housing development gets built up. Then we see the different owners of the house through the years.. And we see five different families and generations grow, live and die in the house. All from the same camera angle. It was definitely something new and completely different to view. It was more of a cinematic journey than an in-depth drama, not to say there wasn’t personal drama that was explored as the families lived in the house.

That really is the gist of it without giving a lot away. There was AI de-aging as Tom Hanks and Robin Wright live out their lives in front of the camera. Both Tom and Robin are good in this, it had to have been a challenge to act in this movie given how it was filmed over a long period of chronological time. It was sort of like a play in that regard. I think you really have to enjoy the journey, just watch and experience the ride.

I loved it, I thought it was great. I loved the cinematic journey of watching History through a fixed lens, centered around one house and the different people and happenings within and outside those walls. “If these walls could talk.”

Highly Recommended!

Two Thumbs Up!