Red Mosquito

Tsuga wrote: Sat July 18, 2026 11:15 pm I took my family to see it this morning and was really impressed. I wish we had an IMAX theater closer to home. I read Emily Wilson's translation sometime earlier this year (or maybe last year?) and loved it, and the story was fresh in my mind.

I thought the performances were uniformly wonderful, and especially was drawn to Himesh Patel, Samantha Morton, Anne Hathaway, and John Leguizamo. But there truly wasn't a bad performance. Even my kids (13 and almost 11) said it didn't feel like 3 hours, and my 11yo was pumping their fists at the end.

Ensign9 wrote: Fri July 17, 2026 3:10 am It's a big no from me, dawg. While I appreciated a lot of the technical achievement throughout, Matt Damon didn't work, at all, for me and the script didn't do any of the other actors any favors. It felt like watching a bad play at times.

Fire Fraught Amne Hathaway into the sun, let Holland use his native accent, and cast a Brit as your Odysseus. Also sick of Jon Bernthal continuing to play Jon Bernthal. I know these are superficial nitpicks but they, collectively, took me out of the movie.

This was a slog to sit through but it got some hearty applause in the sold-out theater we were in so I'm likely in the minority here. Big bummer coming off the high I had seeing Tenet in 70mm last week in Toronto.