bradleyrbauman Review of Air

Air (I) (2023)

Good? Yes. Overrated? Yes.

[6/10 · 23 April 2023]

Gonna write this in stream of consciousness bullet point form.

• acting was solid throughout
• never really got boring despite the subject matter
• you know how it ends, so the movie lacks suspense which they artificially try to drum it up in a bumbling, fumbling manner
• the dialogue felt like it was written as to be quotable in the future amongst movie line quoting type people,

which really became annoying. Cliches all over the place

• the music, the 80's nostalgia overkill etc etc gets real old, real fast, and felt like they used it simply to run clock. We get it. This story took place in the 1980s. Quit ramming it down our throats
• Affleck just shouldn't be acting. Ya don't see Phil Knight. You see Ben Affleck hamming it up to the point of nausea
• should've focused on the guy who actually designed the shoe. He was the real pioneer here. Well yeah, Jordan for becoming the Jordan the world knows, too. But the shoe designer didn't get enough credit in the film.

• bottom line: solid but undeserving of the early, off the charts buzz going around.