2/10
Unbeatable in triviality
7 February 2021
If you want to describe the feeling that 'The man who killed Don Quixote' triggered in me, it's boredom. That's exactly what the movie is, it's boring.

The entire plot (if you can call it that) seems arbitrary and just doesn't make sense. At no point can you take what you see seriously. Maybe that's not even intentional. It's just that everything that's supposed to be abstruse, funny or comical is completely over the top and doesn't hit the nerve it wants to hit.

I can't shake the feeling that the movie wants to be much more that how it ultimately gets on the road. It's treading water and not making any progress. Does the movie simply want to be funny or does it also want to depict a kind of self-discovering process? Maybe both. But here you can already see the main problem. The movie can't decide what it wants and as a result can't transport it to the viewer. We'd rather show the next randomly chosen abstruse scene or lapse into overacting.

In fact, I can find almost nothing to like about the movie. Maybe I just did not understand the plot. For me, there are just too many times when I've thought to myself, what the heck? What were they thinking? I just want to understand. There is not structure at all, no red thread. Far too much seems random and this is how it works over the entire term.
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