Overview
In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up in a world of inequality and prejudice.
There is a lot to like in this movie. It does a fantastic job showing how there was a different set of rules and possibilities available to African Americans. I love how it demonstrated how difficult it is to do the right thing (and maybe more importantly, how people acknowledge this as they intentionally not do the right thing). And of course, how difficult it is to grow up (I am a big fan of this genre).
Unfortunately the film isn’t a great movie. I am someone that loves “talkie” dramas, and I want to get inside of a film and roll around in it. This film is very much a slice-of-life type of film and often those films are very, very slow (and this one is exactly that). Because it is this kind of film there really isn’t a starting or ending point. It just kind of trails off….. In other words, it often felt like work just to stay with it.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Armageddon Time
Movie title: Armageddon Time
Movie description: In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up in a world of inequality and prejudice.
Date published: 2022-12-03
Director(s): James Gray
Actor(s): Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Anthony Hopkins, 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
Genre: Drama
My Review
There is a lot to like in this movie. It does a fantastic job showing how there was a different set of rules and possibilities available to African Americans. I love how it demonstrated how difficult it is to do the right thing (and maybe more importantly, how people acknowledge this as they intentionally not do the right thing). And of course, how difficult it is to grow up (I am a big fan of this genre).
Unfortunately the film isn’t a great movie. I am someone that loves “talkie” dramas, and I want to get inside of a film and roll around in it. This film is very much a slice-of-life type of film and often those films are very, very slow (and this one is exactly that). Because it is this kind of film there really isn’t a starting or ending point. It just kind of trails off….. In other words, it often felt like work just to stay with it.
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My Review - 5/10
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