The Roses 2025 by AverageMansReviews

The Roses 2025 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/environment/domestic violence/drugs/shooting/burning/cutting/drugs/medical/references to homosexuality, race and cancer

10 years later with the Roses: briefly; we meet husband-and-wife Theo and Ivy Rose [Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman:] they are individually excellent in their own industry of architecture and chef/business owner. But when this tragic weather incident happens to one of Theo's newly built buildings, his career takes a massive nosedive, which leaves him looking after the children and his wife being the main financial provider, which coincides with her career and restaurant really taking off.

Generally speaking: the framework and pacing of this 105 minutes film; Well it feels much longer than which I am feeling it has something to do with the time jumps now and again: as I have already shown the first one is 10 years

Comedy and action; when Ivy and Theo are in a counselling session; this is really funny and the inappropriate comments in front of guests is also amusing, the soft escalation of eventually what turns into domestic violence such as when Ivy takes some fruit in the face that is comical and good action. But when it gets to the real side of domestic violence [just for those sensitive people out there, I am just simply putting a line between comical and serious.]

Character developments and performances; as I have already made reference to finding out that this was just a modern retelling of The War of the Roses 1989: I mean I did watch this brief behind-the-scenes where they made reference to it was basically that/loosely that or something to that effect. But it is somewhat different when they say loosely to in my words a more palatable version in 2025. So as it relates to the character developments and performances; well they are what they are; there is on both sides of our lead partnership now and again resentment for choosing or/and taking up that position role be it in the family unit or careerwise and it is only towards the very early stages of this film they actually listen to one another and what was the point of Ivy wanting the house sure it probably cost millions to construct, but when Theo was willing to waive all his rights to everything else including a multi-million potentially in the future multibillion dollar restaurant franchise, then let him have the house even her lawyer briefly entertained the idea, for the rest of the cast of characters that are the ones in the relationship are flawed; one tries to try the British back and forth of insults whilst in the other one member of this relationship wants to sleep with Theo, meanwhile as both members of this relationship also discuss having an open marriage and then the woman in this relationship just wanted to use Theo for sex, but if she has anything like cancer she will go to her married husband. I'm sitting here thinking: Wow I am not religious, but whatever happened to the sanctity of marriage? You know building something with somebody and making their life journey with you and just you, but sure when you have cancer you will go back to this complete idiot that will dedicate his life to looking after you through this very difficult journey and I can say all of this apart from the marriage part, because as it relates to the cancer and the difficult journey I have made that journey and anyone else that has been through it will tell you very simply and honestly in the most nicest way possible: it was hell on earth.

This film receives: 5/10, this film is mixed; to be brutally honest the more time I spend thinking about this film, the more time I slowly but surely think less and less of this film, to the point where I have already taken one mark off, just because it was getting harder and harder to justify it. I think the person I watch some of this content with said it best when they broadly said: they just put all of the best bits in the trailers and how right they were and how this film cheapens the issues of domestic violence is not cool.