Everything Everywhere All At Once

2022 • 139 minutes

About this movie

When an interdimensional rupture threatens to unravel reality, the fate of the world is suddenly in the hands of a most unlikely hero: Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), an overwhelmed immigrant mother. As bizarre and bewildering dangers emerge from the many possible universes, she must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight to save her home, her family, and herself, in this big-hearted and hilarious adventure through the multiverse.

Ratings and reviews

This is why I wait for the rental price. I like Yeoh but this movie was bad. I watched most of this with disdain and I can only assume that bots are responsible for so many good reviews. It goes through a tremendous effort to normalize homosexuality. The multiverse theme borders on insanity but, ultimately, it succeeds in illustrating the absurdity required to justify depravity. I still give it two stars for Yeoh's martial arts and Short-Round's resurrection from obscurity.

I wanted to like it more than I did. Maybe if they cut out thirty minutes and tightened it up, it would be a 4-5 stars but it got pretty repetitive after a while, to the point of ruining it for me. I like long films but the story still has to move. Having said that, definitely watch it and judge for yourself. It's one of the best movies of the year (but I hope there's better).

Nowadays movies either spell everything out for you and leave nothing for you to figure out on your own, while throwing dumb action at you (MCU/Netflix/disney ect ) OR movies try to do the opposite because the writers think they are clever and have the need to be different and try to plug in whatever message they feel is important to them at that point in time( basically every film by a24.) This movie does something "new" by mashing the action with the "deep" a24 story and IT.... Was.. fine.