One of the great goals of Netflix is that your catalog offers something for all types of public to get the maximum possible number of customers. This is something that is becoming more and more evident and with ‘Without shyness’, his new surprise hit, once again shows that the platform is also interested in lovers of desktop suspense TV movies.
As much as it is an adaptation of the novel by nora roberts, ‘Sin modesty’ continues to be a vehicle for showing off Alyssa Milano (‘Charmed’), who also serves as executive producer of a film that became Netflix’s most watched movie last week. Virtues to justify it is not that it has exactly many.
Incompetence
‘Without Shame’ tells the story of a successful writer of mystery novels who insists on participating in the investigation of her sister’s murder, to the point that it is impossible to take the film seriously, since the great justification for not they stop his feet is a ridiculous romantic subplot between his character and the person in charge of the investigation.
That point already blows up the credibility of the script signed by Edithe Swensen, Donald Martin and Suzette Couture, because here no kind of effort is made to lay the foundations for that relationship beyond a more or less fortuitous encounter, more focused on justifying a romantic tension between the two that never engages than for anything else. Come on, play a little ‘Castle’ without offering anything interesting in return.
Of course, the central thread is to see how the character played by Milano is advancing in the investigation much more than the security forces. Unfortunately, ‘Without shame’ offers nothing to justify both the apparent police inaction and the different progress of the protagonist. It just needs to happen for the story to move forward, buy it or leave it.
lazy
I suppose you could say that Milano brings a certain conviction to her Grace, but it’s a feeling that remains more from the alarming ineffectiveness of everything around her than from offering a performance with any kind of hook. Take, for example, the rest of the cast, all of them dealing with characters straddling the hollow and the convenient. Do not expect any kind of naturalness, either in their way of acting or in how they evolve throughout, thank goodness, tight footage from ‘Shameless’.
This leads to ‘Without Shame’ being a film in which it is essential to disconnect the brain if you do not want the feeling of incomprehension in the face of what is happening on the screen to end up being desperate. Unfortunately, the management work of Monica Mitchell It doesn’t help the film find some kind of redemption thanks to its finish, since rarely has the cliché that just put the camera out there and that’s it, been more true. And visually it doesn’t add anything in terms of photography either.
Things don’t get better either when the plot gears offer more arguments to arouse the viewer’s curiosity, because in addition to the fact that their presence is very reduced, everything related to the erotic thriller is neutralized to the point of ending up being the friendliest possible version to watch it. in family. Taking into account that it is a production for Netflix, it is still a self-imposed limitation with which ‘Without shame’ seems to want to add some spice to the matter but without getting its hands dirty in the least. It’s as if they have pulled an algorithm to mix things that they know work, but without paying any attention beyond that.
In short
‘Without modesty’ is the result of applying The law of least effort to a movie that could have been at least a manageable pastime for when you don’t want to mess your head up too much. Unfortunately, the reality is that it oscillates at all times between the boring, the absurd and the predictable, since it also plays the mystery card very badly. I hope that Netflix does not take note of its success and makes more movies like this, or at least that they try a little harder, than they released a few months ago ‘deadly move’, title that played in a league similar to the title that concerns us and that, without being remarkable at all, was a wonder in comparison.