Good time (2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Benny and Josh Safdie
	Actors: Benny Safdie, Robert Pattinson, Jennifer Jason Leigh
	Country: USA
	Genre: Polar, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 25.09.2017, Schauburg, OV Sneak Preview, English version with German subtitle
Synopsis: Obsessively caring for his intellectually disabled brother, Nick (Safdie), the volatile criminal, Connie (Pattinson), involves his sibling in a bank robbery that promising being quick and easy ends up being a nightmare. Nick will wind up in Rikers Island after one unanticipated complication, forcing the desperate but determined Connie to embark on a non-stop runaway quest to bail Nick out. Over the course of a long and violent night, Connie will do more harm than good.
Review: The plot is clever. How to bring two marginalised individuals into so-called normal society. By making them feel and show brother affection as anybody would do, because they are in fact as anybody else. The constant instability of Nick is first disturbing and then rather annoying. He cares more about what the viewer would think about him being a good guy than about the good of his brother. This is the latent flaw in the story that is otherwise quite good. With not much to say, there is a kind of suspense and I was not bored for a long time.  This flaw reflects of course on the acting of Robert Pattinson that seems quite monotonous and exaggerated. Benny Safdie acts also very monotonous but it does not look exaggerated and I could buy it.  I liked the photography. Dark and realistic with all the takes in the night. The subjects always in good focus with regard to the darkness of the environment. The camera handling is often close to the documentary.
Rating: 5 /10