Kimi - Review

Steven Soderberg is an incredible figure in Hollywood. Sex, lies, and videotape basically announced Sundance to the world. Then Out of Sight which announces George Clooney as a movie star. Then gets nominated for Erin Brokovich and Traffic in the same year and wins for Traffic.

The the next year he reboots Oceans 11 and made one of the most fun trilogies ever. Then he makes Magic Mike in 2014 which is just so good. Then Logan Lucky in 2017 which is underrated.

He then goes on a streak of 4 lower budget movies in 2 years with Unsane, High Flying Bird, the Laundromat, and Let Them All Talk. Then two noir thrillers in 21 and 22 with No Sudden Move and Kimi.

He's a national treasure.

Kimi has basically one location and one cast member for the first half and thats Zoe Kravitz. Kravitz plays a voice recognition engineer for a company that makes an Alexa-like home speaker and she's great.

When she was cast as Catwoman in this new Batman movie it was curious to me. I'd never really seen her in anything. I knew she was in High Fidelity and I vaguely remember her in X men: First Class and Mad Max: Fury Road but Kimi is really just her.

The story is small, compelling, and involves COVID without being about COVID. It has a secinctin message about the affects that COVID can and has had in the screenplay by David Koepp but it doesn't beat you over the head with it.

The film is visually interesting and communicates her uncomfortablity with the outside world incredibly well through the camera work.

Soderberg is a master of the craft and has made movies almost anyone can make in the last 5 years but is able to convey his voice and style very well. His movies are endlessly entertaining and tight which you cant say about many directors.

Kimi is good and I would recommend it to almost anyone.