65/100

Much like most of director Denis Villeneuve's oldest proyects -aka Sicario-, this film just feels entirely unfocused and the charm of the director's most recent films lacks a sense of development and unfolding. Even when you can still tell who was the filmmaker behind this movie, it goes underappreciated.

A lot of people have highlighted both Gyllenhaal and Jackman in this movie for their performances. Even when I can somewhat value them on a certain level, for the most part I just found the bigger picture annoying. Even while watching, I could only think of their performances as part of an average filmbro's TikTok compilation of "the best male performances of all time" and just put the bits of them shouting.

The script could only do so much and, as an intent to make this movie seem like it's giving out a ton of information and plot points, they managed to extend this movie for an extremely long runtime. I understand there was the purpose of having a slowburn, slow-paced film that sort of ressembled the grief portrayed. But I have the misfortune of just overlooking it since that was the only intent behind having this movie be 2 and-a-half hours long.

All I'm saying is that Prisoners will only pass down in history as the movie that supported the shift in Villeneuve's filmmaking trajectory, which is exactly the way this movie has been seen as since 2013, for better or worse...