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2022-08-18T20:12:05.057Z


After "Run" and "Us", Jordan Peele returns with "No Way", his most ambitious and unfortunately also his most disappointing film. Review


I am expected to write that the director is a genius and his new film is exemplary.

No way

After "Run" and "Us", Jordan Peele returns with "No Way", his most ambitious and unfortunately also his most disappointing film.

Despite the expectations, the pretensions and the laudatory reviews, the film is puzzling and one could also call it "The Fall", "So what?"

Or "Well, that's all?

Avner Shavit

08/19/2022

Friday, August 19, 2022, 00:01

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The trailer of the movie "There's no way" (Tulip Entertainment)

Star rating for movies - 2 stars (photo: image processing, .)

Five years ago, Jordan Peele broke out like a meteor in the world of cinema thanks to "Get Away".

His debut film was rightly met with success and acclaim, which only grew stronger in real time - last year, the Screenwriters Guild of America chose his script as the best of the 21st century.

The creator has become the hottest name in Hollywood, and has unleashed a slew of projects on our doorstep.

Unfortunately, they were all disappointing: his adaptation of the classic series The Twilight Zone turned out to be horribly disappointing, and his second film Us also fell short of expectations.

Now comes his third film as screenwriter and director, "Nope", which will be released in Israel at the end of the week, a few weeks after it was released in the United States and recorded impressive box office achievements there, relatively nowadays.



"No Way" takes place in the present day, but it goes back and reviews not only the history of Hollywood - but of the entire moving picture.

Every film student already learns in the first lessons about the work of Edward Muybridge,



Muybridge's name is written in golden letters in the pages of history, but what about the rider he recorded?

No one remembers his name, because no one knew him in the first place.

Because he was a black man, no one bothered to record his identity in real time, and today there is no longer any way to trace it.

"There is no way" restores his dignity in his own way, and builds for the unknown rider a fictitious identity as well as a family, and this family is the protagonist of the film.

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From "There is no way" (Photo: Tulip Entertainment)

And so, at the center of "No Situation" are the apparent descendants of the rider - OJ and Amanda.

Both inherited the family business from their late father: a farm that supplies horses for film and television productions.

Due to financial distress, they sold some of them to a kind of amusement park, which presents shows in the spirit of the West, and thus the new film also corresponds with the oldest Hollywood genre of all, and the whitest of all.

The park is run by Jopp, an Asian-American who starred in a childhood sitcom reminiscent of the fictitious eighties sitcom Bojack Horseman.

The series ran successfully throughout the 1980s, until the chimpanzee who starred alongside the boy slaughtered the rest of the cast, but spared him.

The film begins with a flashback from this event and returns to it later, in a kind of subplot that turns out to be the most successful element here.



But the main plot is a different story, the kind that was typical of Steven Spielberg's films in the past.

Of course, we won't expand on it beyond what we see in the trailer anyway, and we'll just say this: the brothers witness strange happenings in the sky, apparently related to an extraterrestrial entity in the form of a spaceship, which selectively draws into it who and what are on earth.

And what do we do these days when we encounter such a dangerous phenomenon?

We want to take a picture of her, of course.

And so, the two try to organize to document the entity in action, and create the "perfect whip" - one that will prove the existence of extraterrestrials, and bring them money and fame as well as artistic satisfaction.



This is Phil's most ambitious film.

Unusually for the horror genre, it was filmed with IMAX cameras that give it the volume of an epic.

It is not surprising to discover that behind the camera was Hoyt van Hoytme, Christopher Nolan's regular partner in recent years who was responsible, among other things, for the bombastic photography of "Dunkirk".

In terms of screenplay, "No Way" corresponds not only with Spielberg but also with "A Space Odyssey", "The Wizard of Oz" and more, and deals with a lot of weighty questions.

Not only the history of the moving image, but also the collision between man and animal and the power of the gaze, among other things.

It could also have been called "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" and "Don't Look Up", if those names had not already been taken.

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From the "No Mode" line (Photo: Tulip Entertainment)

Unfortunately, this is also Phil's most disappointing film, and to borrow from his name, it could also be called "The Fall".

Although it has many qualities, the result is not satisfactory - not from a cinematic point of view, not from an idea point of view and certainly not from an emotional point of view.

I watched it in a hall full to the brim, and already at the beginning an argument broke out between two of the spectators, at least one of them eccentric, against the background of a loud rustling in a bag or something like that.

In this confrontation there were more emotions and drama than in "There is no situation".



Theoretically, we have already reviewed some of the ideas in the film - for example the desire to do even more than previous films, and to restore to blacks the place they deserve not only in the history of Hollywood, but of the entire moving picture.

It also has a preoccupation with the violence inherent in the gaze, and in the fact that we are unable to turn aside this gaze even and especially when we see horrific violence, and also when our observation contributes to the formation of more violence.



There are also many other ideas in the film, but in the end they struggle to form a coherent statement.

"There is no way" is a long film - two and a quarter hours.

As usual with Phil, the third act is the weakest of them all, and instead of connecting the dots, it is mostly puzzling.

The film could also be called "So what?"

or "Well, is that all?"

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One of the creepiest scenes of the year.

From "There is no way" (Photo: Tulip Entertainment)

Cinematically, "No Way" is even more disappointing.

Indeed, it has virtues.

The cinematography is impressive, and the game displays are excellent.

The brother is played by Daniel Kloya, who already starred with Phil in "Escape", and Kiki Palmer, who starred, among other things, in the movie "Hustlers" alongside Jennifer Lopez.

Jopp is played by the Korean-American Steven Yeon, one of the most prominent actors of recent years, who, among other things, excelled in the series "The Walking Dead" and in the films "Bara" and "Minari".

The moments with his participation are among the best in the film, and the segment recreating the chimpanzee's outburst will probably be remembered as one of the most chilling and powerful cinematic scenes of 2022.



Beyond that, "no way" is not rewarding.

Throughout the long viewing, the tension is maintained, and the expectation is that something will finally happen to justify the length and pretension, but it doesn't happen.

The film is slow and tedious, and moves between atmospheric scenes and puzzling moments, between incomprehensible musings and unclear statements.

Most disappointing is the climax: all the IMAX cameras in the world will not change the fact that the performance here is simply not successful.

The description of what happens between humans and the being in the sky does not fail to sweep and impress.

And in short: I did not enjoy it.

And in short: I did not enjoy it (Photo: Tulip Entertainment)

Jordan Peele is a Teflon in American culture.

Hollywood needs a hero and needs a hero like him.

In the case of the current hit, there were already a few leaks at the front, but they usually came from negligible media outlets, and even those wrote politely and with restraint.

The rest duplicated what they wrote about "Tabarach", and showered the director's third film with praise, which seems to me exaggerated and strange.



This film is, among other things, about a being that draws helpless people into it in an almost comical way, and I have no intention of being drawn either.

Go with the flow and write that this is another masterpiece by a genius director?

No way!

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