Film review
The King of Staten Island 2020
Directed by Judd Apatow137 minComedy · Drama
Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.
½Watched 15 June 2020
I don’t know why this film was made, I can’t imagine anyone asking for it, it’s a film about that guy from SNL, Pete Davidson, there’s so many interesting people that they could make films about but Pete Davidson? And yet this film wasn’t as bad as it sounds, Pete Davidson didn’t have a too different of a childhood other than the fact his dad died in 911, and for a film about the life of a stand up comedian this film wasn’t exceptionally funny, but it is still interesting at times. It felt very real and authentic, and as soon as the firemen come in it becomes a good movie. I was for some reason exited about it for a while and it lived up to my mediocre expectations. I would recommend this film to you, and weirdly what I took from it is I might go and get a tattoo. I would have liked if this film delved deeper into his mental health or added something else to it to make it a little more entertaining, but it’s rlly good for what it is, and what it is, is a film about Pete Davidson.
7.4/10
