I was very interested in watching this and expected it to be much better.
It took me 3 or 4 sessions to get through it, because my wife and kids kept complaining about how horrible it was, meaning, I had to watch it when they weren't in the room.
From the writing, the directing, the music, the editing, the pacing, to the performances by the actors, everything comes across like a "no budget" student film, which is disappointing, when you consider that there were other "limited location" movies to look to as examples,... GlenGarry Glen Ross, Talk Radio, 12 angry men, etc..
All of which that were able to create more entertaining and note worthy films, out of much smaller and more contained stories.
So many missed opportunities.
Bezos
2023
Action / Biography / Drama / History
Bezos
2023
Action / Biography / Drama / History
Plot summary
Bezos chronicles the true-life story of Jeff Bezos-a humble yet awkward entrepreneur on his mission to create Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce company, and turning himself into the richest man in the world.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
January 24, 2023 at 02:13 PM
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Top cast
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Low Production Value
Interesting story, horrible acting and directing
This slow paced movie tells the story of how Jeff Bezos founded Amazon. While rhe story itself is increadibly flat, it did manage to keep me interested throughout the movie, knowing how big Bezos and Amazon will become.
The production value of the movie is very low, but that's not the biggest problem for a character driven drama. The real problem is horrible acting and directing. Some moments seem taken from a Hallmark movie from the 90s, and many other moments are robotic and staged.
Overall it's a pretty weak film, but can be useful to pass the time on a slow night in, when you might be too tired to watch anything actually engaging.
Poor acting
I was shocked to see that of all the ways Bezos could have showed his story to the world, this was the one he'd chosen.
The story isn't bad, of course, but the movie seems to be so poorly executed, from how it was directed, written and the acting.
The film talks about how Amazon started, from its very beginning. The nice part is to see his ex wife's input in the very early days, the amount of dedication they put into transforming an ideia into the company that it is today and the difficulties they faced. No doubt it is an inspiring story.... Just it was surprising to me that it seemed like a very low budget, weird project.