Film Review - Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (2022)

 Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is the new A24 film written and directed by the Daniels and stars Michelle Yeoh as the owner of a small Laundromat which is at risk of failing as well as her marriage to her husband played by Ke Huy Quan (Data from the Goonies and Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) but during a tax audit with an IRS auditor (Jamie Lee Curtis) she learns that she is in grave danger and that she must make a trip through the Multiverse to save her life and that of her husbands.

 

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is very much all of those things and its definitely a unique filmgoing experience for sure though at times it didn’t quite all work for me but before I delve into that I want to talk about the positives and there are a lot of them here firstly Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan are very good here and work well as a couple plus in their own individual moments where they get to be dramatic, kick ass in very exciting action scenes as well as be funny, I also really enjoyed seeing James Hong (Mr David Lo Pan himself) in a key supporting role as well plus Jamie Lee Curtis is a lot of fun as well.

 

Also the filmmaking here by the Daniels is a lot and for the most part they make good use of the 139 minute running time with a lot of scenes and moments and fast cuts and slower moments but at times I felt that it bordered on being too much, too sentimental and too long and this movie does all of those sometimes a lot and sometimes all at once.

 

It borders on being too much for sometimes overdoing a lot of the fast paced moments to the point where its hard to get a good look at each multiverse variant Michelle Yeoh is in, at times it borders on being too sentimental as I thought towards the end “So this all built to that, that’s a bit disappointing and predictable” and it bordered on being too long as again in the end of the film I started to check my watch on a couple of occasions.

 

And look this movie is not a bad movie at all there is a lot here to like but for me it bordered on all being too much and that’s why I give it a 2 and a half out of 5.