Armageddon Time
A deeply personal story about the strength of family, the complexity of friendship, and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.
- Released: 2022-10-28
- Runtime: 114 minutes
- Genre: Drama
- Stars: Banks Repeta, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Anthony Hopkins, Jaylin Webb, Ryan Sell, Teddy Coluca, Tovah Feldshuh, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Andrew Polk, Lauren Yaffe, Dane West, Dupree Francois Porter, Griffin Wallace Henkel, Jessica Chastain, Stephanie Groves, Marcia Haufrecht, Oona Girton-Marshall, Ian Hernandez-Oropeza, Aidan Christman, Eva Jette Putrello, Landon James Forlenza, John Dinello, Jacob Mackinnon, Jude Washock, Skyler Wenger, Psalm Mitchell, Jack Parrish, Stephanie Aguinaldo, Diamond Washington, Lauren Sharpe, Lizbeth MacKay, Domenick Lombardozzi, John Diehl, Richard Bekins
- Director: James Gray
Comments
- kqueen74 - 30 December 2022
Stop making bad films
About thirty minutes into this film, I thought, "These kids are losers. Why am I watching this?" I finished the film feeling the same way. It's supposed to take place in the 1980s. All we learned is that the director's family hated Ronald Reagan, that he heard a grade school classmate use the "n" word and that he saw a black friend treated unfairly. These aren't spoilers. They're a warning. Nothing much happens. Why does this guy think that his childhood is in anyway interesting to anyone but him? More importantly, why did some really great actors sign-on to a film that lacks a plot? And why did a studio sign-off on this?
This isn't The Fablemans. Nothing in this guy's life inspires him to greatness. Instead, you get the feeling that even close families who have dinner together, invest in private schooling and encourage their kids to succeed, can still end up with a kid who's a dud.
And that leaves us where exactly?
