It has a name (“Justice”) and stands for a whole lot more than months’ worth of juicy carpaccio. For reasons known only to Knight, Serenity couldn’t just be a film noir.
Matthew McConaughey gives a nonsensically overripe performance as one Baker Dill, the captain of a fishing boat who’s obsessed with catching a particular giant tuna – “the tuna in my head”, he calls it – and will drop everything to try and snare it. What feels off about the film, though, escapes Knight’s control almost from minute one, so much so that it starts to feel like a crossword puzzle for which they’ve accidentally supplied yesterday’s grid. Approaching it in spoiler-free fashion is hardly worth the trouble, since the movie spoils itself, littering its own path with increasingly ridiculous clues.Įvery time it springs a moment of “wait, what?” – which is constantly – you’re being primed, in theory, for the humdinger gimmick writer-director Steven Knight ( Taboo, Peaky Blinders, Locke) has stashed up his sleeve. There are thrillers that hold on to their twists under lock and key, and then there’s Serenity, a torrid noir enigma so in love with its underlying, insane concept it simply can’t wait to tip you off. Their lives of petty crime are interrupted by a. A fishing boat captain juggles facing his mysterious past and finding himself ensnared in a reality where nothing is what it seems.
Dir: Steven Knight. Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke, Djimon Hounsou, Jeremy Strong. 15 cert, 107 mins Set 500 years in the future, Serenity is the story of the captain and crew of a transport and cargo ship.
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