Some films give me a bad impression from the trailer, while
others make me weary just from finding out who is working on the film. This
might be a first, in that it was the poster that made me want to give this film
a pass. First off, advertising that the writer/director also worked on the
painfully generic-sounding 'It’s Complicated' and 'Something’s Gotta Give'
isn’t going to convince me that this is worth seeing. And secondly, as much as I wish
it still were, Robert De Niro as your lead is no longer an accomplishment nor
something to gloat about. Combined with my
general dislike for MOR generi-drama, this all spells trouble. But these are
just my pre-film assumptions at work; how does it actually turn out? This is The Intern.
