Overview
Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins.
I thought that I had come to a good place with Wes Anderson. I tend to favor his earlier works, although I didn’t like many of the movies that others adored. When watching Asteroid City, I thought that I had come to a place where I could appreciate his works: the viewer needs to accept this world-building style, and then not thinking too much about it. But this movie? I have reviewed nearly 1800 movies as of this writing, and this was the first time that I actually forgot that I was watching a movie. I started looking around the room, looking at my watch, and then looking back up at the screen before starting the cycle all over again. I hate to use the cliched “style over substance”, but sometimes the shoe fits. It feels like the movie version of Seinfeld – every scene was just a slightly different version of previous scenes. The same characters and scenes, over and over and over.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews The Phoenician Scheme
Movie title: The Phoenician Scheme
Movie description: Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins.
Date published: 2025-06-25
Director(s): Wes Anderson
Actor(s): Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Alex Jennings, Charlotte Gainsbourg, F. Murray Abraham, Steve Park, Scott Shepherd, Donald Sumpter, Jason Watkins, Stéphane Bak, Antonia Desplat, Tonio Arango, Aysha Joy Samuel, Mohamed Chahrour, Imke Büchel, Anna Bardorf, Imad Mardnli, Jaime Krsto Ferkic, Sabine Hollweck, Volker Michalowski, Mike Maggart, Truman Hanks, Beatrice Campbell, Carmen-Maja Antoni, Mattia Moreno Leonidas, Alexandra Wysoczanska, Shabnam Kohestani, Thuli Wolf, Jenny Behnke, Luisa Steimann, Yekta Arman, Giuseppe O'Bruadair, Sanjay Hari, Alexander Kühne, Kim Young-sam, Andreas Krafft, Faysal Omer, Werner Ort, Alexander Yassin, Hans Carl von Werthern, Harry Wiggins, Simon Weisse, Matthew Jordan, Sönke Möhring, Max Mauff, Philipp Droste, Merlin Sandmeyer, Edward Hyland, Kit Rakusen, Milo James, Ogden Dawson, Hector Bateman-Harden, Benjamin Lake, Gunes Taner, Gabriel Ryan, Momo Ramadan, Jonathan Wirtz, Gabriele Pacchia, Mohamad Younes, Daniel Steiner, Benoît Herlin, Tobias Schüler, Simon Baptiste Mayer, Michel Hüttner, Till Sennhenn, Roman Berger, Antonia Schröter, Fuasi Abdul Khaliq, Christian Grabandt, Robert Gutowski, Kelvin Sholar, Erik Unsworth, Eric Vaughan, Anna Henschel, Arsal Jalib, Ashkan Olfati, Emile Buchheister, Nicolas Avinée, Mohamed Belhadjine, Sébastien Fouassier, Eliel Ford, Martin Scali, Aya Nour Ayache, Maksude Cerdik, Sogol Faghani, Michael Maggart, Julian-Andres Arango, Anton Arnold, Carlo Milillo, Bernd Rautenberg, Freya Feyrouz, Karl Markovics, Abdul Aziz Mardini, Adrian Lohnert, Edgars Gluhovs, Eduardo Miranda, Jakob Jaromir Gerhardt, Johannes Löhr, Samuel Gehrke Rios, Johannes Krisch
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
My Review
I thought that I had come to a good place with Wes Anderson. I tend to favor his earlier works, although I didn’t like many of the movies that others adored. When watching Asteroid City, I thought that I had come to a place where I could appreciate his works: the viewer needs to accept this world-building style, and then not thinking too much about it. But this movie? I have reviewed nearly 1800 movies as of this writing, and this was the first time that I actually forgot that I was watching a movie. I started looking around the room, looking at my watch, and then looking back up at the screen before starting the cycle all over again. I hate to use the cliched “style over substance”, but sometimes the shoe fits. It feels like the movie version of Seinfeld – every scene was just a slightly different version of previous scenes. The same characters and scenes, over and over and over.
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