We couldn't finish this but not because we hated this story of writer and a genie. Apparently, if one turns on closed captions in English (Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba's accents are but one reason we did so), the foreign languages, containing much exposition, are NOT captioned. The movie is interesting, with spectacular visuals, but not worth pausing to turn the captions off and on every time they switch languages (which turns out to be the remedy--that's right, watch with English closed captions, then when they speak another language, pause the movie, turn captions off, then pause again when they return to English, and turn on closed captions again). No thanks! I was yelling at the TV and we finally gave up after almost an hour.
Directed by George Miller, its music by Tom Holkenborg is pleasant, and can be found on
Apple Music.
Swinton was last blogged for
The Eternal Daughter, Elba for
Avengers: Infinity War, and Miller and Holkenborg for
Mad Max: Fury Road.
Rotten Tomatoes critics and audiences aren't longing to see it either, averaging 71 and 73%, respectively. It's on Prime with a subscription. Amazon has not fixed the caption problem, according to dozens of people on Reddit and elsewhere. Our attempt was July 6.
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