Quick Movie Reviews
Rating of
3/4
Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 02/24/2024
"The Bling Ring" is not only a decent crime saga, but a pretty good representation of the glam-obsessesd youth culture of today's generation.
Rating of
1.5/4
hoods_breath - wrote on 02/16/2019
Reminds me of the film Clint Eastwood shot about the Paris Train shooter those marines stopped. There's just not enough meat on the bones to carry a 90 minute film. There maybe could have been if they'd overhauled the script and narrative. But a lot of stuff got glossed over, like how they tried fence the stuff. It ends up being an incredibly boring film. My advice, watch it at 1.25x speed while doing another mundane task. There's no twists, nothing to keep you zoned in. You could walk away for the middle 40 minutes, resume viewing, and miss nothing important.
Rating of
1.5/4
Matthew Brady - wrote on 01/06/2014
I was really looking forward to this movie and now am a bit let down. this movie was a bit of a let down for me. I mean the acting is fine but the characters are so unlikable.
Rating of
2.5/4
Unknown - wrote on 09/21/2013
'The Bling Ring' covers the burglary spree of one group of teenagers. We see reenactments of their steals from the stars and get a sense of their basic reasons for doing so. That's all there is too this film, really. The 'no-narrative' structure is fine, but the absence of any viewer investment leaves much more to be desired. The film does highlight the selfish, fame obsessed, materialistic, and completely vapid lack of personality of these teens, which I took as a precise criticism. This only made me loathe the characters more. It's aim is in the right place, but parts of it seem as empty as these would-be thieves.
Rating of
4/4
Jacob Zembower - wrote on 06/22/2013
Harris Savides.... you will be sorely missed. (more review to come soon.)
