gcarpiceci Review of Wasp Network

Wasp Network (2019)

I don't care much about factual accuracy, the movie has other more important flaws

[4/10 · 3 February 2020]

I don't have a detailed knowledge of the Wasp Network facts, nor am I interested to obtain it as, all in all, it represents a minor event. I saw that many reviews focus only on the historical accuracy of the movie, which - in my view - is just a secondary, if not tertiary, criterion of judgement. I think Wasp Network is a movie which does not live up to the ambitions it lets transpire; I think the main flaw is that the story is rather complicated but not so relevant, original or dramatic. The second flaw is that the director's choices made an already complicated story quite confused. Last, but not least, the performances of such a glossy cast are disappointing to say the least. So, when a movie stacks such a pile of problems, whether its historical accuracy is high, average or low is not the key in myview.