On The Rocks Review: Light-Spirited Yet Compelling
It is not an internationally popular film, and it may get overshadowed by the other big releases this fall like Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, Ric Roman Waugh’s Gerard Butler-film Greenland, and Russell Crowe’s starrer Unhinged which enjoyed success in Singapore before being released in selected areas of United States. However, Sofia Coppola’s “On The Rocks” is definitely worth a watch.
Bill Murray and the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola work together again in a dark comedy called “On The Rocks” after a gap of seventeen years. The last time they worked together was in the 2003 film “Lost in Translation.”
Sofia Coppola also has returned to steer the wheel after her work in 2017 Southern Gothic film “Beguiled” starring Nicole Kidman.
The film “On The Rocks” is about a father-daughter relationship though the premise tells us that it’s more about women’s struggle with the infidelity of men towards women. Rashida Jones is the daughter but more importantly, is a mother of a child who suspects her husband of cheating on her with his new attractive secretary played by Iron Fist star Jessica Henwick.
Rashida Jones’ character Laura asks the help of her father played by Bill Murray to help her in this tricky situation as she thinks he knows all too well about infidelity as he has been a playboy in his time (or he still is, she wouldn’t know). Rather than helping her, he engages in a funny argument about how men can never be monogamous. She doesn’t like it, and the argument turns into a fight which opens up old wounds as she accuses him of wreaking her pre-marital family which he defends on slippery grounds.
Bill Murray plays a character you can hate but can also laugh at sometimes as he is shamelessly open about his actions. Murray did a good job in portraying a modern unprincipled father whose straight-faced funny jokes can make up for all the boring scenes in the film.
There are few mundane scenes which would have done the film a whole lot of good if they weren’t there, but still, the father-daughter argument is creepy, funny, and serious all at the same time and in its best moments it can even entertain you in some way, but at the end, you may or may not feel satisfied with what you saw. It all depends on what you like to see.
It will premiere to all the subscribers of Apple TV+ on October the 23rd.
Everleig is a Blog expert and has been working in the technology industry since 2003. As a technical expert, Everleig has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as cnext.uk.com
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