I can bet that,
like anyone who loved the series, I never thought Entourage could do
any harm with screen time. Sadly, there’s something called too much Vincent
Chase and his guys, because I got bored of seeing them.
This movie is bad on many levels and boring on others. No wonder many didn’t
rush to the cinema to see it after the bad reviews it got from critics. Like
others, I backed away from the movie, contributing to its financial loss.
When a series
you love decides to make a full-length movie, there’s nothing stopping you from
seeing it, right?
Wrong. Bad reviews can.
Entourage was
well-celebrated, and I loved the series. The amount of love it got from fans
led HBO and Warner Bros. Pictures to believe that even with a crappy screenplay
and a worthless script, all they had to do was make a movie with the same cast,
fill it with enough cameos, and it would make $20 million in the first week.
Boy, did we surprise them…
They just had to
wreck it. They couldn’t leave us with the nice HBO ending we had. Instead, we
had to struggle through 90 minutes of total crap to come to the same
conclusions as the critics. I guess my problem was that the movie had nothing
new to offer. There was no challenge—all we got to see was the cast’s triumphs.
Get my point?
The same way good news is no news—if everything was fine in the world, CNN
would be out of business. The same goes for movies. There’s got to be a
challenge somewhere for a movie to stick in your mind and keep you captivated.
To be honest,
E’s (Vince’s manager) story in the movie was more interesting than the whole
movie itself. But then, writer Doug Ellin (who also directed, wrote the
screenplay, and produced with Mark Wahlberg) and Rob Weiss screwed that up too.
I was genuinely surprised they did.
Contains Spoilers
The movie played a new tune: E had two women pregnant at the same time, only
for us to find out it wasn’t true. How long did that suspense last? About 10
minutes. So, to me, the only good thing in the movie was those 10 minutes of
wondering if E was going to be the father of two children from two different
women.
The movie’s plot
is simple: Vince is divorced, E is divorced, and the bachelor crew is back.
Vince wants to make a movie where he gets to direct. Ari Gold is set to be the
executive producer and will finance the movie alongside other co-financiers.
The problem
Vince faces is that the movie is getting too expensive to finish, and the whole
plot revolves around him trying to get more money from Ari to complete it.
Do yourself a favor and skip this train wreck of a movie.
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