Red Rocket (2021)

Simon Rex plays a washed up porn star that returns to southern texas to rebuild his life. What you expect to happen will happen and then you'll see him groom an underage girl to become the next porn star sensation.

Fmovies: Well made and all, but story wise this is really hit or miss. Not a whole lot is going on, and the characters just kidna interact. So certainly not bad, but be warned that this movie is pretty uneventfull with a not so much sence of closure.

5/10: fine, but not really good.

I looked up Red Rocket on Urban Dictionary and hahaha isn't that an accurate movie title.

Man oh man Sean Baker, you are quite something. Just like Florida Project, this was a gorgeous and phenomenal movie.

Simon Rex was a force to be reckon with. There wasn't any moment where I was bored with the guy. The dialogues along with his incredible charisma propelled the pace of this movie to become exciting and a bit anxiety-filling. Even more, he made what already a great script more investing.

The cinematography again was out of this world. A poor neighborhood in Texas somehow looked like a dream world.

Again, Sean Baker used the bizarre colors, cute shapes, and isolated locations of the houses to suggest a fantastical and ambiguous interpretation of the story. I think for this part, Red Rocket had a slight edge over Florida Project because the ending in Red Rocket was smoother and made more sense.

Overall, an absolutely magnetic movie. 9.5/10.

Red Rocket fmovies. 6/10 - Simon Rex proves that he is certainly an actor capable of drama films and someone to take seriously, but as the credits abruptly began to roll, I could not help but ponder what the meaning of the film was and why I spent over 2 hours investing in it.

I watched the movie because the trailer mentioned it would be about porno. Then as I watched the movie I realized; the trailer did not say it was going to be about porno it just said it was about a porn star.

It's kinda funny cause if I'm not mistaken, the movie's lead, Simon Rex had a promising career as one of the icons of an MTV generation until he got caught in a porn scandal of his own. I feel like that may have had something to do with director, Sean Baker picking Rex and I also think this had something to do with Rex being so good as Mike, a male porn star with a long career filled with many highs and glories, but fell apart really fast and with nothing to fall back on he comes back to a place he never thought he come back to because he had no choice.

As a movie, I can compare Red Rocket to a roller-coaster ride. It's a nice exciting climb all the way to the top and when it starts going down its fun, but the overall free fall is actually lackluster.

The problem here is that the movie is a character piece. This film relies heavily on Simon Rex playing Mike and our focus on who is character is, to the point that the story being told is sacrificed for it. The importance of the movie is watching Rex play this character, and in that portrait of the character we got a completed movie, but the way the story was laid out. It does not feel complete.

I do love the rawness of the film. Rex is the only actor I know by name and the fact that I know him at all as an actor ages me. It's possible that other actors in this movie did things I'm unfamiliar with but as far as I'm concern it looks like Sean Baker just used the random folks, he found in the small Texas town this movie's about.

Even if I'm a bit iffy about how the story stops short, I'm satisfied with this movie because it was an interesting story that stayed interesting from beginning to end.

The american working class, not a blockbuster for the big movie market, but still okeish considering budget and cast. Mr fox does his trot very well, making this former superfiscial ultrasuper pornstar figure into a comedy, with a knife litterally on his neck all the time.

Some production glitches and abrupt editors misclips bounces you through the plot of hudlum and of the grid personalities, there are...but also some decent caracter acting makes this become like a squid in the bubblebath of fish, youll either get eaten or beaten.

The grumpy old man though have gotten confirmation on how the archtypical american looser is, a sicks stars worth red rocket for the new year festivities from the dump yard of the petrolianized and de- gassed one star state of america, and to all texanolians ,dont take this serious.