Knox Goes Away is directed by Michael Keaton who previously directed The Merry Gentlemen (2008).
Don’t have a whole lot to comment on here, what drew me in was Keaton being in the director’s chair and while I completely get what he was trying to go for. I don’t think it came together all that well.
Michael Keaton gives a decent performance here, it’s nowhere near one of his best. But it’s decently effective and matches the story being told, Al Pacino is unfortunately phoning it in for a paycheck. The rest of the performances are fine enough but ultimately don’t lead into anything memorable.
The main problem with the movie is it leaves a lot more to be desired, there’s a very interesting story about a man who is diagnosed with dementia and we the viewers sort of get to see inside his mind. The problem is the movie doesn’t do much with the characters, they are very blandly written which in turn fails to make the viewer feel anything towards them.
There are some decent moments which it’s mostly due to Keaton’s acting that really makes these moments special, there’s some genuinely interesting dialogue towards the end that leads to something interesting but ultimately fails to do anything with it.
If the film focused far more on the characters and less about the very generic investigation that goes on during the movie, I think there would have been absolutely something here.
Knox Goes Away is available on all VOD platforms.
5/10 C
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