5/10
Last weekend I rewatched Steve McQueen's Hunger, primarily because a friend wanted to see it but also to revisit it before seeing his second film, Shame. Hunger blew me away all over again; unfortunately, Shame is a pretty big disappointment in comparison. Thank god for Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, who do fantastic work even though they're given some awfully hammy dialogue to chew on. Shame is about a sex addict (Fassbender) whose life starts to come unglued when his younger sister (Mulligan) drops in unexpectedly. What's most vexing about Shame is that for all the edginess inherent in the subject matter, and the director and the actors, it's remarkably boring. It plods along with no apparent direction and then seems to throw all kinds of stuff at the viewer, most of which is unexciting or woefully predictable. One of my most anticipated releases of the year, but it was a dud for me.
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