Bokeh (2017)

I never write reviews, which says something about this movie. It was awful and boring. Scenery was nice but apart from everyone going missing there was no storyline. And the ending was the worst ever. So anti climactic. Can't get those 90 mins back.

I'm quite happy for a post apocalypse movie to avoid the how and why questions of what has happened, and to look in greater depth of how those who have survived respond. Nothing wrong with a 'slice of life' story. However one needs to care about the characters to be engaged in the film, and unfortunately this film failed in that respect. Both main characters seemed shallow, or rather it felt that they were not fully fleshed out - as if they were some incidental characters that had suddenly been thrust into the limelight, and the author/writer had not given them a proper back story. I wanted to like the film - the backdrops were visually appealing, and the basic premise was interesting. But come the final couple of scenes, I found I didn't care about what happened to them. In fact the final scene itself, when the credits roll, I didn't even feel disappointed, the film hadn't engaged me enough for that. On a final note, I watched this on Netflix, so unsure if it was the film itself or the version I watched, but I found it quite hard to hear - felt they were mumbling half the time.

Some viewers have been generous in the description of this movie, labeling as "existentialist", "intellectual", "original/imaginative" and even a "masterpiece"... I'd say those viewers are easily amused by pretentious mediocrity labelled as "art".Bokeh drives home 3 (and only 3) concepts successfully;1. Cinematography: High praise to the Reykjavik Tourism Board and the filmmakers for capturing the most beautiful and remote locations in Iceland...Some might say that the film tries so frantically to capture them all that it comes across as a 1/5 hour advertorial... some might say.2. Highlights that in your 20's (and mainly in this day and age) you are UNFIT to choose a MATE that reflects who you are! Jenai and Riley were so ideologically and morally different, and they had such different expectations out of life that it was never going to work out in the long term, in the real world, much less likely in a post-apocalyptic wonderland.3. REALLY drives home the concept that LOVE, on it's own, is simply not enough! People need individual space to pursue their interests and technology to support (and reflect) their lifestyles. Some people more than others...I must admit some of the dialogue was so annoying and overtly pretentious that I just had to fast forward through the endless diatribes and pseudo-intellectual "banter", mainly by Jenai, who was overtly emotional and utterly insignificant and helpless... This brings me to the biggest mistake this movie made; portray the female lead as this sanctimonious, unstable, weak, emotional, boring and empty stereotype of a vessel, which I wouldn't want to associate with MUCH LESS identify with!!! REALLY Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan?! Is that the best female lead you can conjure up?!!!

I just wasted 92 minuets of my life. Because if it's a film there should be a meaning. This is kind of documentary. Not a meaningful movie. Characters/scenery etc are very good. But there's NO PLOT. This is just to criticism about the PLOT. Not about the rest of the things in a movie.