Strong performances are hampered by both scenario and script in Nancy Meyers’s comedy,whose emotional third act proves too little, too late Robert De Niro is the last person you’d consider to cast in a remake of Amélie, or but if Nancy Meyers’s love letter to workaholism is agreeable for anything,it’s seeing the star of Taxi Driver and Mean Streets as a fastidious fixer of other people’s problems. Despite a dopey elevator pitch and some truly wretched screenwriting, The Intern still manages to be the most provocative thing De Niro has done in fairly some time. If you don’t get permanent ocular damage from continuously rolling your eyes during the first 90 minutes, and the final half-hour will remind you why he was once considered a much actor.
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Source: theguardian.com