Victor is more of a Flirty Old Man than a Dirty Old Man, and in Shatner’s veteran hands we come to like this amiable if sometimes politically incorrect old-timer. Nearly every entrance and exit feels so stiff and staged, we half-expect to hear a studio audience applauding, or canned laughter. Christopher Lloyd, who is so strong playing against type in this week’s “Nobody,” is saddled with a cardboard-thin Best Friend role that requires him to wear a bad hat and a worse wig, and Carlos Miranda pops in here and there and does fine work as a low-rider motorist who got into some trash-talking with Victor but eventually becomes an ally. “Senior Moment” is currently available on NowTV in the UK.Katrina Bowden from “30 Rock” shows up as a bikini model who takes a liking to Victor but suddenly disappears from the story. Kirk is hamming it up, as usual, and so many aspects of the movie feel unbelievable (in a story set in our reality) that it is hard to take this movie seriously. This is actually the only noteworthy aspect (in a good way) about the endeavour, and ultimately, I feel that if you’re below 60, there isn’t a lot to enjoy about this film.Ī movie that offers very little actually worth recommending, “Senior Moment” is one of those films that will appeal more to the older generation than anyone under 60. On the positive side, the film looks great and the presentation is quite solid throughout. That’s just one of a plethora of contrivances throughout the film. For a film that is set in our reality, nothing about the relationship between Victor and Caroline seems genuine.Įverything about this movie feels easy, for example, Caroline has a broken cuckoo clock and to try and get closer to her, Victor promises it will be fixed, and then Christopher Lloyd’s character just happens to be a former jeweller that also happens to have experience in repairing cuckoo clocks. There is a multitude of problems with “Senior Moment”, whether it be Shatner’s over-the-top acting style, the objectification of young women, characters that add nothing to the story, and a really forced relationship between Victor and Caroline. As mentioned above, I recently turned 37, and I found it quite a slow to get through, despite lasting less than 90 minutes. I suspect that rating is very much given from the older generation as, in hindsight, there isn’t a lot on offer for younger people, and I wouldn’t be surprised if most turn it off pretty early on. I’m going to get this out of the way quickly, if you do end up watching this movie simply based on its current rating on 4.5/5 on NowTV, don’t. Soon after he meets Caroline (Smart) when he accidentally trips on the bus, and the two quickly form a boss, and despite her being annoyed at him for the incident that caused him to lose his licence, the two do start a relationship. Not taking it seriously, Victor goes partying on the night before his retest, all before failing the test miserably. He subsequently gets filmed, caught, and has his licence taken off of him. One day, he gets carried away when racing another driver and ends up causing havoc. Victor (Shatner) is a retired pilot and loves sports cars. Right, so here we go, let’s hope it’s a good’un (as the kids say). I’m not the type that would just sit around doing nothing all day, and as this is about the older generation, hopefully, it will give me some hope about my old age. One of the reasons this is speaking to me at the moment is that I turned 37 in September, and I’m slowly getting towards middle-age (my friends and I agree that that is 40), I’ve been thinking a lot about when I’m older and what I’d do with myself. I don’t know much more than that, as, in my typical fashion, I watched the trailer, added it to the list, and didn’t think of it again before it appeared on one of those aforementioned services. You’ve got to be in the right mood to review films, and I’m often not.īut anyway, one of the movies that is (for those who haven’t read my site before, I write this intro before I’ve watched the movie) is this seemingly fun comedy about a pair of ageing friends. There are a variety of reasons, one of which is that they simply aren’t available in my native UK, or they are, but when I see them on one of the streaming services, I just can’t be bothered. I don’t mean that as in the films on there are weird (although some would argue that), I mean as in that I have films on there that I do want to watch, but I know that out of the 64 movies on there (at the time of writing), there is a good chance that I won’t actually ever see at least 50 of these. My Youtube “films I want to watch” list is weird. You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose!Ĭast: William Shatner, Jean Smart, Christopher Lloyd, Esai Morales, Don McManus and Carlos Miranda
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