IMDb plot summary: Gloria is an out-of-work party girl forced to leave her life in New York City and move back home. When reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon.
Directed by Nacho Vigalondo. Starring Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell, and Tim Blake Nelson.
(Spoilers ahead.)
This movie is 90% brilliant and 10% really awkward. Fortunately, most of that 10% is in the movie's first half and it gets much stronger as it gets toward the end. It was much more unsettling than I'd have thought it would be to see Jason Sudeikis as an out-and-out villain, and the final 10 minutes or so was the most satisfying defeat of a villain I've seen in a long time.
4 stars.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Colossal > Inland Empire
Colossal > Chariots of Fire
Colossal < Benny & Joon
Colossal < The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall
Colossal > We're No Angels
Colossal > Shakespeare Behind Bars
Colossal > The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!
Colossal < Collateral
Colossal > The Florida Project
Colossal > Get Out
Final spot: #517 out of 2690.
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