W.E. (2011)

Genre: Drama

Directed by: Madonna

Starring: Abbie Cornish, James D’Arcy, Andrea Riseborough

Running time: 119 minutes

Wally Winthrop is married to a doctor, but she’s almost always alone at home while her husband is at work or doing various other things. Lonely, she is obsessed with the love story of King Edward VIII, who abdicated his throne to marry American Wallis Simpson. W.E. goes back and forth between the modern day story of Wally Winthrop and the story of the royal love affair.

           

I wish I could find something good to say about this movie, but I simply cannot. I was bored to tears all the way through and I just could not seem to get emotionally invested in any of the characters. I simply could not make myself care about any of them, and the people involved in the film did not do anything to help. The acting was bland and uninspired, the story was uninteresting and the directing was lackluster at best. In spite of her being a pop music icon, a great movie director Madonna is not. Oh, the costumes were really well done. There, I found something nice to say. I worked hard on that one.

Some of you might like this movie, but, if I could just be like a virgin again when it comes to that movie, I would never let it in the door. What a waste of time.  

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