Hen and Junior's quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal.
The main question to ask when talking about Foe is "what happened here?" On the surface this looks like something with a lot of potential you have Garth Davis director of Lion (2016) in the director's chair plus Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal in the leading roles. The plot sounded genuinely interesting as well, it had all the right ingredients to make for a very interesting sci-fi thriller…that's sadly not the case here.
Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal truly give it their all with their performances which are hands down the best part of the movie, there's some genuinely strong moments with their chemistry that almost feel accidental due to how quickly the writing completely falls off a cliff. The setup is decent enough, the atmosphere (at least at the beginning) had this eerie feeling that the movie was going for.
However once the actual plot kicks in the movie starts to become a way too unnecessary convoluted plot that already lost the viewer due to how slow the movie moves, it's such a chore to sit through and with absolutely no payoff you start to question what exactly was the point. The screenplay doesn't do the movie any favors, while there are a few decent enough moments the rest of it really does not give Ronan and Mescal a lot of room to use their incredible talent.
Finally the movie itself is incredibly nonsensical even with the rules the movie establishes it goes against it's own logic and it's messaging is absolutely confused. Foe is by far the most disappointing movie I've seen so far this year, there was so much potential to make something incredibly great here.
Foe is available on all VOD platforms.
3/10 D-
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