Here

'Here' is a soulless, meandering bore, proving that nostalgia and tech tricks can’t save a story with nowhere to go.


While Hanks and Wright pull off the impossible, emoting somewhat effectively despite the overuse of de-aging technology, it wasn't enough to save this film from feeling gimmicky instead of genuine.

This film is interesting to look at if you are interested in movie-making technique, but as a drama it is rather undramatic.

This is a home run swing that results in a strikeout and a long trudge back to the dugout.

By the time the credits roll, you half expect the logo for a home insurance company to come up, because that’s what this whisper of a film feels like: a commercial for homeowners insurance.

Alas, it all amounts to another unlucky roll of the digital dice thanks to an excess of AI, a surfeit of random incidents and a lack of empathetic storytelling.

It's constant back and forth in time means you can't really connect to anybody. All the jumping back and forth in the timeline also means you kinda get bored.

The film’s most fascinating technique is its use of multi-framed scenes, echoing the graphic novel’s layered storytelling. It blends various moments from different eras into simultaneous frames, turning the screen into a gallery of life across time.

An interesting experiment that ended up having a totally uninteresting execution.

Like other Zemeckis films, it’s a bold experiment. But, sometimes, effort needs to be put into the script before it’s lavished on the shooting technique.