NINE

This is a completely pointless movie. Nothing much happens, and what does happen you don’t actually care too much for it. It is the story of a movie director who is due to start filming his new film in 10 days but he has no idea what to film, even though pre-production is in full swing with costumes and sets being made and built - already this seems like a ridiculous plot. The problem is nothing happens, we spend the rest of the film seeing him remember different girls in his mind who then perform a single song and dance piece in a completely different setting, and then reverts back to Guido (Daniel Day Lewis) as if nothing has happened. The song thus being rendered completely pointless, I mean yeah the songs look good and are great to watch, but they serve actually no meaning to the film whatsoever.

All throughout the film you keep seeing Guido struggling with what to film and I got the sense that I was supposed to feel for him being so frustrated and angry, but it is incredibly hard to feel for a character who is such a complete bastard, a cheating, lying scumbag who is cheating on his wife and rude and obnoxious to everyone around him. I don’t care about him or what he does.

Personally I think the main problem with this film is the actual story of Nine which is an established Broadway musical (how I don’t know?), not to do with the actors as they all turn in very good performances and Rob Marshall makes it all look brilliant but it’s all style and no substance and I left the cinema thinking that was 2 hours of my life I would never get back.

1 star