The intermittent flashes of Dill’s son - seen through the child’s computer screen as he plays computer games - and the strange swoops of the camera hint at something, but what comes next is what I would conservatively call “galaxy brain level.” McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, looking appropriately dazed. Director and writer Steven Knight, however, has more on his mind. There’s a lot of shirtless McConaughey (and in-the-buff McConaughey), and Lane and Hathaway get very breathy around him, which is about par for the course that the movie seems to be setting. Naturally, his idyllic island existence gets shaken up when his ex-wife Karen (Hathaway) rolls into town with a favor to ask: kill her abusive new husband Frank (Jason Clarke) for the sake of the son they had back when they were together. McConaughey plays a fishing boat captain named Baker Dill (why not), who spends his days obsessing over a particularly large tuna fish he’s named “Justice,” and sleeping with Constance (Diane Lane), who pays him for his time. The first half of Serenity, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, is about what you’d expect from the trailers, which frame the film as a sexy thriller. If you have seen it already, I’m just here to assure you that you haven’t had a momentary lapse in consciousness, or at least that, if you did, we all experienced it together. Even if you do, will probably have trouble believing it with your own two eyes if/when you decide to go see it anyway. Here’s the thing about Serenity: Yes, I’m about to spoil everything that happens in the movie, but if you haven’t seen the movie already, it will hardly matter, because it is so categorically ludicrous that you probably won’t believe me.
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