If you love Forrest Gump and you’re intrigued by AI in films, Amazon Prime has just the movie for you.
Grab your popcorn film lovers because this digitally enhanced production is pretty much everything you could ask for in a captivating watch: emotional, fascinating, and slightly controversial.
As well as starring the one and only 00s icon, Tom Hanks, the film, titled Here is so good that some viewers have admitted to ‘sobbing’ through the two-minute trailer while others haven’t been able to get past the uniqueness of its editing techniques.
Let’s break it down.
The 2024 released film, directed by Robert Zemeckis was co-writed by the director himself as well as Eric Roth and is based on the 2014 graphic novel by Richard McGuire.
Centring on the lives of a couple, Richard, played by Tom, and his on-screen girlfriend Margaret, played by Robin Wright.
There isn’t really a clear storyline, but with the help of AI, the plot takes us from their young love to raising a family together, divorcing, and revisiting the home years later when other families have made it their own.
While most movies focus on the characters or their story, here, the camera angle is the main character as it continuously shows the comings and goings of the home’s inhabitants.
It’s an interesting concept and has earned plenty of opinions from viewers who had high expectations as it marked yet another collaboration between Tom, Robin and Robert, who all worked together on Forrest Gump.
With just a 37% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it’s safe to say Here has struggled to impress viewers, which may be why it was very quietly added to the streaming service.
‘Another deeply flawed, tech-forward endeavour for Zemeckis in which glimmers of human emotion only occasionally break through. Like Cloud Atlas for baby boomers experiencing late-middle-age malaise,’ critic Laura Venning wrote.
‘There’s a chance Here will wear down your cynicism, but a far greater chance this mega-clunker will wear you down to your very last nerve,’ John Serba’s review read.
While Cameron Meier gave insight as to where the movie failed: ‘The film is filled with fascinating ideas and the best premise of any 2024 movie. But thanks to heavy-handed dialogue, ham-fisted directing, on-the-nose messaging and overly broad acting, it’s one of the most disappointing movies of the year.’
One of the more positive reviews praised the film’s cinematography: ‘Since there isn’t an overall plot, it all feels a bit random. But each vignette is beautifully observed,’ Rich Cline stated.
Over on social media site X, the reviews were fairly mixed with @TheRealZarp writing: ‘interesting……. the CGI used to de-age Tom Hanks looks pretty good.’
@dogehippie added: ‘The multi-verse version where Forrest Gump and Jenny have their happily ever after.’
‘I’m sobbing at this two-minute trailer, so I will absolutely be watching this, but from the comfort of my own home where I can cry by myself,’ @drugstoredivas tweeted.
The film’s release followed the Hollywood strikes in 2023, which saw The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) conduct the longest labour strike since 2008.
It only ended in December, 2023 when an agreement between the unions and studios was reached.
The agreement included increased pay, improved residuals, and significant protection against the misuse of AI in the creative process.
Here is now available to stream on Amazon Prime.
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