Review: Midnight Clear
Penguin March 23rd, 2008
Rating: 2/4 stars
Midnight Clear is about 5 people and their struggles. As with most multipart structures, it’s hard to get to know all the characters. Some are fleshed out a little more than others, but they’re still 2D at best.
There are points where Midnight Clear feels like it’s about to get preachy, but luckily, it doesn’t go down that route. It effectively takes all the different narratives and link them together in a fairly natural way. In the end, you feel encouraged by an otherwise depressing movie.
Since the characters can be a little thin, you get a fair sense of their lives pretty fast, so for the remainder of the film is just waiting. You kind of know where the characters are going and you want them to deviate, but it just takes such a long time to get there. And that’s the problem. The entire thing takes way too long to get to the punch line. At 103 minutes, you’d think it’d be a little more brisk.
- Penguin
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