Swiss Army Man (2016)

Given that I don't have much time left to write I'm gonna try (at least for a while) a short and focused, and hopefully more often entries approach. "Swiss Army Man" is the kind of movie that you'd want to like, but somehow it makes its best not to. It's clearly an experiment of the two guys directing and writing, and it should be considered as such. The context is extremely simple: the classic case of the stranded island survivor who sooner or later goes nuts, passing through the "standard" phases: suicidal thoughts, life introspection, finding a "live" partner of survival whichever who might be ... This movie develops the last of these, but unlike "Cast Away" here we don't have a Wilson ball, but an actually human "friend", in the form of a zombified corpse. Actually that's the whole story - the interaction between the two actors: the cast away (Paul Dano) and his partner in "solitude" (Daniel Radcliffe), varying constantly from drama to comic. Where drama with minor exception is quite decent, and the comic with minor exceptions is indecent. I don't really have a problem with the latter, but associating it with the first part turns into a pretty weird result. Towards the end I thought at some point that I'm watching indeed a small jewel of a movie where all the crazy stuff gets some sense based on what the viewer can actually "see" there ... but no, the experiment decides to turn the ending back into a cheap "funny" conclusion where (spoiler) you should lose any doubt about the actual existence of "live" zombies.

Rating: 3 out of 5