2023-05-10 21:00:00
Résumé : January 13, 2018. 8:07 a.m. A ballistic missile alert sows panic on the island of Hawaii. Convinced that they are going to die, friends who have come to spend their holidays with a group, tell each other what they have never dared to confess. When they realize it’s a false alarm, it’s too late to turn back.
Critique : Friendly stories on vacation still have a future on French screens. That’s just the subject of this sentimental comedy that travels to the shores of Hawaii subject to a false Chinese bombing alert. The case is folded. The protagonists know that they are going to die in the hotel which welcomes them and, after the love, the settling of scores and the unsaid unspeak shamelessly. So here is another feature film which, instead of renewing the genre, reinforces a casual cinema that we already know.
- Warner Bros. France
Certainly, the forties are at the rendezvous for this film. The impressive palette of talented actors embodies this generation of adults who have not completely settled their sentimental vagaries, indulge in drugs and alcohol, with the barely concealed feeling of having missed out on their existence. Fiction does not honor either the virtues of education with parents overwhelmed by their children, in total permissiveness. Brief, Hawaii does not depart from a series of clichés through otherwise caricatural characters, in any case, totally light. Even the class struggle invites itself into this wacky farce where old rivalries are displayed without filter.
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- Warner Bros. France
But what are all these French actors really looking for in this story? Perhaps a bit of exoticism and luxury on these great golden beaches of Hawaii and no doubt an impressive cachet. Because Mélissa Drigeard’s feature film does not give thanks to almost any of the characters she stages. The protagonists are locked into stereotyped behaviors, allegedly revealed by the false ballistic missile alert. And the secrets or things left unsaid that run through their common existence reflect the flatness of the scenario. Hawaii does not catch up on the comic either. We hardly laugh, the dialogues coming up against a lot of evidence and boredom.
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- Warner Bros. France
Brief, Hawaii will not carry away the spectators. At best, it will distract people about to fill a rainy Sunday. It may say a lot about a generation of parents and adults who are looking for a new reason to exist. But that is not enough to convince.
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