LAST NIGHT IN SOHO | MOVIE REVIEW
hey everybody what’s good i’m larry or i guess you
could say utrecht son of hutrid it’s my favorite
one my favorite shows on netflix and i hear it’s
coming out with a movie so i’m celebrating today
but you’re watching the movie cranks and today
i’m going to be giving you my thoughts on the
2021 film starring anja teller joy and thomas
and mackenzie edgar wright’s last night in soho
so until now wright has been mostly known for
his fast-paced satirical comedies scott pilgrim
vs the world hot fuzz shawn the dead or some of
them you may know with his extensive use and a
signature editing style with a heavy emphasis on
music steadicam tracking shots dolly zooms that
includes a lot of weird wild transitions and pans
that puts his unique stamp on the film he’s not
exactly someone i thought i would ever see work
his way into the horror thriller genre but at
last here we are so let’s go ahead and check out
this newest edition and see what it’s all about
the rundown eloise is a young girl with an old
soul who leaves her home and passed behind to
pursue her dreams of becoming a fashion designer
when she arrives at her destination her life
begins to spiral
off into the 1960s club scene with the shadows of
the past begin to entangle with the present one
of the reasons this film really piqued my interest
is wright had been quoted earlier on saying that
while making this film he channeled his inner
quentin tarantino and it’s this and how this
was going to all translate over into the horror
thriller genre that really had me curious and
i can say now tarantino no i didn’t feel any of
that but hitchcock vibes yes wright’s filmmaking
here his transition use of reflections and the
surroundings is what makes this film pop giving
it the tone of some of those 1960s films like
psycho and the birds but there’s a lot to talk
about here so let’s go ahead and jump into it
and talk about some of my favorite aspects of this
film the hits the scares these aren’t your typical
jump scares actually i’m not sure if there was
really one particular point in this film that made
me really jump instead it’s more like i just said
the surroundings the mirrors and knives the use of
music even though i have to stop here though just
for a second because some things here can be real
hit or miss and i would say that at times here the
sound especially during those moments where right
was focusing on the music would actually
peak a little bit above the dialogue
something i personally found a little distracting
but nothing too drastic that it ruined the film
for me and at the time sometimes you know it would
actually enhance the film setting up that tone and
that nimble pace but these things included with
the lighting even the rain smeared halloween
makeup instead created a feeling of fright the
bottom line here is it’s not really a horror
film what you have here is a well-constructed
suspenseful psychological thriller where right
actually exploits the little things getting every
little thing he could out of these performances
and i can’t say it enough this is mckenzie’s movie
and she is in peak form here without a doubt one
of her best performances that i personally have
ever witnessed of course all i really know of
mckenzie is shyamalan’s old if that really means
anything dad why are you looking at me like that
oh no but here she speaks not just with her words
but with her expressions her eyes they speak a
thousand words just by themselves alone much of
the dialogue here feels almost left untold yet
visually told to us fixating on eloise’s emotions
which is another thing mckenzie does so well here
she runs through a handful of emotions happy
scared fright everything you can imagine and
with the way wright utilizes this lighting here
outside her room creating those flashing colors of
red and blue that coupled with mckenzie’s facial
expressions tells us a story and materializes into
two separate characters in their own right and
we’ll have you thinking about this film really
far well after you’ve left a theater the ending
though the twist i enjoyed it it was really good i
mean it was a very satisfying ending but just that
it was good i had it all figured out from about
midway through the movie maybe 20 years ago they
would have got this one over on me but there’s
just too many of these twisted films like this
nowadays that you just come to sort of expect it
not that it’s a bad twist like i said you do
come to find out some things here as the story
progresses and what it leads into and who and
what it leads into you do genuinely feel for the
situation and the people involved and that’s
due to anya taylor joy’s performance who is
equally as good as mckenzie but in a far
more limited role i was really expecting more
of any telejoy here which is actually where i kind
of start to roll off into some of my the misses
there’s far more characters here than i expected
other fashion students the mean girls you know
where they walk into a bathroom and it’s
like one of those really bad high school
movies she’s just so weird i can’t believe they
stuck me with her ew gross and her relationship
and her love interest with the boy is just well i
just feel like they had zero on-screen chemistry
and it felt very forced and kind of awkward at
times this is where i would have liked to seen
things tighten up a bit showing us like i
said more of the past and anya teller joy
i would have liked more understanding of who
this character was before all this happened
what her life was like before she came to london
she’s a lot like eloise chasing her dreams of
being a singer we need more of taylor’s joy more
of taryn stamp another character i really like
just was not really in the movie very long and
less of this love and drama and family issues
i mean i get where they were coming from and what
wright was trying to do here he’s trying to create
the possibility that maybe this is just all in
her head to keep the audience guessing and that’s
what it does but these cliche side characters
are just there to drive the possibility of this
into the narrative and take it from one place
to another and then there’s the final scene
after the conclusion of the story that left me
just kind of wondering in what world would this
happen i mean by this time she’s almost stabbed
someone in the face chased someone to their demise
at one point she even goes to the police who
just thinks she’s schizophrenic she’s right
at every scene that involves a death and they’re
all in suspicious occurrences so when the mystery
finally unravels you kind of have to wonder why
no one seems to notice or care as to why all this
death has been following little poor eloise around
the one girl she almost dabs on the forehead and
almost kills at one point at the end literally
just kind of gives her a little nod like sup
we’re cool now and i don’t know if you notice
this but they never really give us any conclusive
answers there’s a little part in there where they
kind of discuss a a gift i mean is she like haley
joe osmond i see dead people or not they talk like
i said of this gift for i don’t know one sentence
of dialogue but then it’s left there by itself
never really discussed again they just kind of
gave up on that whole aspect of the story which
i would like to see him dive into a little deeper
and that’s my misses mostly minor little pics that
didn’t really throw me off the main attraction
to this movie which is the music the colors the
style all this is what won me over the final score
at its core this is a 1960’s classic hitchcock
and if anything i love it just for that
this film knew how to keep the audience really
guessing and knew how to build suspenseful
tension and fright all while keeping you
invested in the movie’s main characters
and i’m gonna go ahead and give
last night in soho a b-plus
so last night in soho did you see it what
did you think did you love it did you hate
it comment below and join the conversation
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