Is Black Flies with Sean Penn a good movie? The first viewers to express their opinion

Black Flies, which hits theaters on April 3rd, introduces Ollie Cross, played by Tye Sheridan. This young paramedic from New York teams up with Gene Rutkowski, an experienced emergency room doctor played by Sean Penn. Faced with the violent reality of their daily lives, he discovers the risks of a job that daily shatters his convictions and leaves him restless.

Did Black Flies, directed by Frenchman Jean-Stephane Sauver, convince the first AlloCiné audience? With a rating of 3.2 out of 5 (79 average ratings as of April 4 at 3:00 PM), this thriller is generally well received so far.

What do viewers think?

According to Antonio Claro, black flies benefit from a “A visceral staging for an immersive immersion into the condition of paramedics, hallucinatory and hypnotic, reminiscent of 70s cinema.Taxi driver) and the films of the brothers Safed.”

shock?

For his part, Domville discovered black flies during the last Cannes festival and “This movie was a shocker: a thoughtful descent into the hell of violence in the Bronx by a neophyte paramedic accompanied by his mentor. We wait for a glimmer of humanity that slowly arrives. No doubt it will be an apocalyptic vision. Not unanimously!”

Black Flies is for Caro Cinéma “A gritty, realistic and violent dive that allows us to look behind the scenes of this exciting city, New York. Everything is as close as possible to human misery.“One thing is clear, the feature film leaves no one indifferent, and some people really did not appreciate the proposal of the French filmmaker.

Deja Vu?

“Everything gets very painful very quickly in Black Files. Worse, it’s the coronation of a stereotype ultimately summed up in the character of Sean Penn. Yes, he is frustrated with everything, we get it, thank you. No. We have to remind him in every frame.

We really want to be sad for him, with him. But above all, we’re sad because we can’t believe it for a second and we’ve already seen it 110,000 times better.”Critique Facile argues.

According to Velocio, “Jean Stéphane Sauvaire felt obliged to follow in his footsteps Martin Scorsesefrom Paul Schrader and Abel FerraraUnfortunately, he only retained what was the most violent, the darkest, the most despicable of these directors. “

“And since we’re in the United States, we’re also allowed to use musical accompaniment that does far more harm than good. Sean Penn, with toothpicks in his mouth all the time, we know him better. We prefer Tye Sheridan’s. Performance.”

If you want to make up your own mind, Black Flies opens in theaters on April 3rd.