Summary
Daisy Riddley needs something to do between filming commitments for more Star Wars content no one wants, so she made this film.
If I were the family of the person this is based on I would sue, that is how bad this is.
So the film details the first ever time a woman swam the English Channel, based on real events. In another timeline this could have been an inspirational tale of rising to the occasion, perseverance and never giving up on your dreams, but Disney has their hands on this. Due to Disney’s influence this film is full of the message that Bob Iger said they were walking away from, rather than focus on this heroic woman and her journey, which in and of itself is uplifting, progressive and inspiring, they have to force in a bunch of current year feminist theory that makes no sense in that time period. Some of the things they are talking about are so deeply out of place it makes you think did they just not even bother doing research for this film.
Daisy Riddley is fine, she cannot act and is mostly just looking slightly angry for most of the film, she is another student of the Alaqua Cox school of acting, but that is okay as for the scenes when she is swimming you cannot really see her face. For the sake of ease just think of her as a block of wood in the film that goes from point a to b.
As I said before, this tale deserved to be good, but Disney being Disney they had to run it into the ground and make it not only boring but also needlessly chocked full of identity politics.
Overall, there is a reason Disney say they are not bothered about the box office of this film and that is because they know no one will see it.
1/5
Pros.
It is almost too bad to be believed
Cons.
It is sanctimonious
It is boring
Ridley struggles
It is far too long
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