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La banda Grossi (2018)
One of the worst screenplays I know of
I have literally wasted two hours of my life watching this horrible, inconclusive mess where nothing ever happens. The first 15 minutes are misleading, because a somewhat decent cinematography and editing lead you into wanting to know what happens next. And what happens next? Nothing. The movie is 50% made of verbose, redundant dialogs, and 50% made of bearded guys taking infinite hikes in the mountains. You reach the end of the movie literally not knowing why these guys are so badly wanted by the police. In 2 hours they instigate a very brief shooting, they rob a house, and they kill two cops. That's all the action you get in a movie that's supposed to tell the story of blood-thirsty brigands who killed hundreds of people, looted villages and made every other possible crime. Even the political motive of the gang remains barely mentioned. You spend two hours watching these guys talk and go on mountain trails and you never know why they move or what they are precisely talking about. Furthermore, the dialogs are written in such a pompous way that farmers, shoemakers and other lower social class people that are supposed to barely know how to speak, are instead more well-spoken than poets or language scholars. From an acting standpoint, there are a couple of good actors, half a dozen of mediocre actors, and all the rest are just non-actors, cringey amateurs taken from the street, I guess. And nothing of the above can be justified by low-budget restrictions, since the number one fail is the screenplay. If you can't write two lines of decent, coherent screenplay , you definitely should keep away from daring to make a movie.