Before Midnight

       Yes, see this movie, if you must, before midnight.  It is not worth staying up beyond that time. Maybe eight o'clock.  Is there snappy dialogue?  Yes, but too much.  Does the dialogue cover poignant subjects?  Yes, but again, too much.  How much to you want to cram into a movie.

This movie is pretentious and over-rated.  There, I said it.  Okay, perhaps I, too, am pretentious and over-rated, but then, as the juvenile cliché states, it takes one to know one.

The actors are attractive and can act, given a vehicle with life to it, which this not.  Clearly, this movie is a case of a sequel depending too much on its previous incarnations.  Neither the writers nor the director has nothing new to say.  Yes, people in relationships get older.  The relationships change.  If you are over a certain age, you learn this.  Most people learn this the hard way.  Yes, I know, some people never learn.

Richard Linklater and his team have no more to contribute about this theme and should move on to new ideas.  Okay, thanks.  I had to get that off of my chest.