It took me almost 3 years
As the title says, "It took me almost 3 years" watching this movie and has been sleeping on my laptop since 2023.I'd say that the movie is good but it's tad BORING. Despite bringing in good actors (a.k.a Yakusho Koji and Yoshizawa Ryo), the writing is just boring. It really took me almost 3 years watching the whole film just because I can't focus on how boring the story is especially on the first hour. It only got interested for me after an hour.
As the story title says, "Familia", it focuses about the main character, Yakusho Koji and the people around him are "families" of their own.
Aside from the story being boring, I wished they did a bit more of a research. I've read another review here that it's not how they are in Algeria. Even though it was made ""fictional"", they could do more of a research about that part. Also, casting a more of a Southeast Asian looking actress, they could have shifted the story into something about Middle East Asia as that would make it 'more realistic' as they are also focused on the same industry and also wars are happening in the said area. I just wished they stayed realistic despite being 'fictional'. By the way, Nadia's actress is quite cute, she can improve more of her acting in the long run.
The Brazilians in the story are good actors too. I appreciate how they delivered their lines and how they portrayed their roles. Their expressions are good, especially the one who portrayed Marcus. There's something on how he looks and how he delivered his lines.
About Miyavi and his guys, I think that's just how thugs look? For an acting perspective, he could just do more. I really feel less effort coming from him until the end of the story. Most of the story, he's either talking or just sitting there with a BORING expression in his face. He had decent lines but for me, his expressions all throughout the story isn't making much. I don't see much of the supposedly hate in his expressions and just saw his face as plain bored.
My overall rating is 6 as I had enjoyed the movie especially the last hour. It was quite fast paced at the last hour but at least that's where I understood the story better than the first hour. They could have either made it as a movie with a sequel or even a 6 episode drama series instead.
My rewatch value is actually 0.5 but MDL won't allow me to do so. Lol. If you have a lot of time to spare, feel free to watch it. Haha.
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