Review: You Were Never Really Here
Possibly suicidal, PTSD-suffering war veteran Joaquin Phoenix lives with his elderly mother (Judith Roberts) and earns a living bashing creeps with a ball-peen hammer. His latest gig has him hired by a senator to rescue his daughter from the usual sex trafficking creeps. I didn’t like writer-director Lynne Ramsay’s “We Need to Talk About Kevin” at all, mostly because it never really got around to talking about Kevin enough . I’d take that terrible film over this one any day of the week, even though this one is actually the better made film in my view. Yeah, this is gonna be a difficult review. This 2018 film features a committed performance by the very talented Joaquin Phoenix, but is completely off-putting and by the final act it’s just a confusing mess. I found it the complete opposite of something I wanted to be subjecting myself to, much as I willingly slogged it out. And yet I feel like it would be unfair of me to properly grade the film at all, because I feel like it’s...