20 Terrible Movies That Do NOT Deserve Their Fresh Rotten Tomatoes Scores
3. I'm Thinking Of Ending Things
Title Edit: I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Score: 82% (Average Score: 7.60/10)
Consensus: Aided by stellar performances from Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons, I'm Thinking of Ending Things finds writer-director Charlie Kaufman grappling with the human condition as only he can.
Critics have to watch an awful lot of dreck, so perhaps they're likely to appreciate something artier and more ambitious, such as Charlie Kaufman's latest directional venture I'm Thinking of Ending Things. The response from audiences, on the other hand, was a lot more mixed, and why wouldn't it be? How many people do you actually know that enjoyed this?
Ending Things is infuriating in every sense of the word. This surreal drama clearly strived to be an emotional meditation on the human condition yet it fails in that goal in pretty much every way. Not only is the film far too emotionally distant for its own good, but its many surreal metaphors are so incomprehensible and generalized that it's damn near impossible to get anything out of them.
Honestly, despite the movie's ponderous feel and philosophical grandstanding, it ultimately feels about as deep as a sweat patch. Worse still, when you analysis of Ending Things, you realize it was never actually saying anything particularly revelatory or interesting; the themes of this film have all been conveyed by many other, far better movies, put it that way.
The performances are admittedly excellent, but otherwise Ending Things is a smug, empty, hollow and beyond-insufferable film that's as undeserving of a Certified Fresh stamp as it gets.
Deserved Scores: 30-50%.