Moonlight Review

Best Picture Winner At the Oscars.

Movie Review :

This is a coming of age movie about a young black boy growing up in Miami.

This movie had a LOT of potential, I am sure this film is very close to the director’s heart, but the film in and of itself is boring and rather meandering and ultimately fails to make a single impact or point

This is Oscar bait at its basic. The Oscars got called out for including the LGBT or Black community last year and now lo and behold, a Black LGBT based film…

Just like Boyhood, this film sort of goes nowhere and ends without any rhyme or reason or Closure or payoff on ANY of the plot points raised in the film.

One important character, played by Mahershala Ali (Who won an OSCAR for his acting) simply disappears mid film and it is up to audience to understand if he got killed or what the heck happened to that character.

So as far as films go, this one is not worth a watch. The subject of the main character who is a repressed homosexual is sensitively handled but the story and plot needs to have more substance than JUST that ONE fact covering the whole movie! After a while it feels like, OK this guy is Gay and he is repressed about it, NOW WHAT? Move on with the story, or show something meaningful! Even the ending is sudden and meaningless in lots of ways.

Rating: 5.5/10. Its slow, the first part is sort of watchable then it gets boring and not really worth a watch. Not even wroth a watch after winning the best picture Oscar!

P.s: Someone might say, YOU NEVER faced these issues, so this film seems boring to you... Well I never faced being a gangster either, but Goodfellas didn't seem boring, or even Boyhood didn't feel SO boring... or pointless! A GOOD film is a GOOD film regardless of how its made! So moonlight for me just wasnt a good film !