The Upside (2019)

[baumer]

Do it

[Barnack]

I quite liked the original, this is surprisingly a very close remake, with the change making it more challenging to succeed.

 

A big challenge is the decision on Cranston casting and characther in the movie.

 

In the original you have an old money aristocrate from the old Europe, class difference and last name is bigger in a society like France and being old money, having been always rich made the encounter with the other world a bigger deal, than a new money-self made man in the US version.

 

It also meant that Cranston characther loved everything in is rich life, he choose himself, it was not by birth, peer pressure, legacy, etc... having to change some of the motivation.

 

The direction is more boring here, the conflict feeling very much manufactured because we needed them, very easy to reverse and the movie not really committing to them.

 

Not terrible, but not specially good either, classic 5.5/10 affair.

[Avatree]

Thought this was fine. Still haven't watched the original.