Sometimes the trailers deceive, other times they flood, other times they tell too much, other times too little.
The trailer for "You were never really here" is halfway through.
It doesn't say much but it says enough to make us understand that it will be a strange and violent film with an actor like Joaquin Phoenix ready to devour every scene.
It will be like that but something else will happen too, something that will leave a bitter taste in your mouth for a beautiful but unfinished, ugly but interesting film.
It is not clear if the work directed and scripted by the Scottish Ramsey is the result of an attempt to dare or victim of the carelessness of those who have failed to take care of the most important details.
Phoenix never disappoints. His powerful but undone body like sheets in the morning lying on an amorphous bed do justice to a complex and immature character who is completely devoted to the tasks to be carried out day after day, without license to kill but with license to be violent.
The plot suddenly shakes and everything becomes more vibrant again in a meaningless escalation that brings to mind "Drive" by Nicolas Winding Refn and with a whirlwind of simplistic and simplified violence as in a dull movie by Steven Seagal or Liam Neeson.
The ending would like to be cryptic and auteurish but ends up being a blank slate for a beautiful but ugly, exciting but boring film, well thought out but meaningless, with a vivid plot that has no flashes.
It could have been a film to remember.
It ends up being a forgettable film that will make us think in a few years time that maybe "We were never really here".
