What’s It About
An American oil-rig roughneck travels to Marseille, France, to visit his estranged daughter, in prison for a murder she claims she didn’t commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, he soon builds a new life for himself as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate her.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
I have nothing against dramas, but Stillwater is an extremely slow-moving waste of time. The first half-hour was used to show just how bland Matt Damon can be in an everyday setting. He’s a roughneck named Bill Baker with a daughter that has been in prison in France for five years. She was accused of killing her friend and has maintained her innocence ever since. As horrible as that sounds, Bill’s backstory is even worse, and an hour later, we find out what it is. If all of this were told within the first twenty minutes, this film would be a bit more bearable. It would still suck, but I wouldn’t need to tape my eyelids open to watch it. Anyway, Bill goes to France to visit his daughter in prison. She is still very adamant about her innocence and gives her father, Bill, a note to give to the attorney that represented her. Oh yeah, before I forget. Bill does not know French, and only a handful of people he comes across knows English – very little English. So, when Bill finally hand delivers the note from his daughter, he is less than happy with the answer and decides to do it all by himself with the help of his neighbor, Virginie. This lady ignored and embarrassed him earlier while enjoying herself at the party she was having. Needless to say, Bill, Virginie, and her young daughter, Maya, became the central characters in one of the most forgettable movies so far this year. Honestly, there are episodes of anything on television better than Stillwater. In a nearly two-and-a-half-hour movie, it only needed fifteen minutes to tell the whole story. Everything else is unimportant mind-numbing, boring filler.
OUR RATING – A STILL-STUPID 2
MEDIA
- Genre – Drama
- Street date
- Digital – October 12th, 2021
- DVD/Blu-Ray/4K – October 26th, 2021
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 1.85:1
- Sound – English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Descriptive Audio, French: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, Spanish, French
Extras
- An Alchemy of Viewpoints
- An American in Marseilies: The Locations of Stillwater
- With Curiosity & Compassion: Director Tom McCarthy