https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-2022

I just watched this tonight. A wild movie that I enjoyed a lot. If you bitch constantly about Hollywood not making original movies anymore and yet haven't watched this movie, then...well...it's your own damn fault. 🙄

Original? I just felt I'm watching another meta Matrix but instead Keanu we have female Jackie Chan and his double as her husband.

@Markoff said:

Original? I just felt I'm watching another meta Matrix but instead Keanu we have female Jackie Chan and his double as her husband.

I don't remember any tactical use of butt plugs in the Matrix, nor any tender moments with rocks in any Jackie Chan movie. By the way, his "double" as you put it is the iconic Ke Huy Quan (aka Short Round from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom as well The Goonies), and the "female Jackie Chan" is the legendary Michelle Yeoh, whom Jackie Chan readily admits had beat him up once.

It is an original postmodernist movie, lol. It's a joke, there is no such thing as original in postmodernism. I think it is still a creative movie that actually handles very nicely one of more fascinating concepts derived from the quantum theory - the multiple worlds. People mistakenly refer to it as multiverse, due to massive use of that term in pop culture recently, but it is not exact. Multiverse is something different and much bigger concept, it is more exact to call it Multiple Worlds. Anyway, I liked the jokes and the cultural references in this movie, I liked the writing a lot. The last part had too many tears for my liking, but overall it didn't spoil the impression. Nicely done.

Meh, it was okay. Nothing too special. What it boils down to is an allegory for Evelyn dealing with the all the regret in her life over the seemingly numerous bad choices she's made (which she blames on her father because he had the nerve to let her make her own decisions in life, the horrible bastard). So, she resolves not to let the same thing happen to her daughter which I guess means she'll be meddling in her daughter's life for the rest of her's? Everything else - the multiverse, Evelyn having super abilities etc. - serves as a distraction from what is a boring drama.

It was weird film, definitely a lot of conflict in how I feel about it. It was different yet unoriginal. Funny yet cringey. Good acting yet oversentimental.

I've come to the conclusion that while it was a good watch, it seemed to try too hard. The sausage fingers universe being something the writers thought up that would get a lot of laughs, rather than anything else. Likewise with "the bagel" idea.

Also the film was non-stop; it needed more scenes to slow things down.