Hot Summer Nights (2018)

Such a frustrating disappointment

Expected more

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

The movie is fun to watch if you play a game on your phone while watching. The movie is predictable and you dont connect to the characters at all! the main character is dumb and the rest of the characters are dumb aswell. The acting was good but you dont feel empathy for the characters beceause the movie goes so fast. I wouldnt recommend this movie to anyone.

Great cast new and old, ending could've done with some fine tuning overall a fantastic coming of age movie. All 3 leads stand out as stars.

Sure, it was derivative (like every story arc since Shakespeare has been), but I loved it because of that. It ripped off some shots from Good Fellas, a scene reminded me a lot of another from Boogie Nights, but at least this wasn't the kind of big blockbuster formulaic schlock that is starting to feel like they are pumped out off of an assembly line.I may have a soft spot because I spent my summers in a resort town populated by a mix of the very wealthy and the locals (of which I was neither) and this reminded me a lot of my own summer in 1991. Something about those places and the disparities can make you do some incredibly stupid things to make money, and because the relationships you have are almost doomed to be transitory they also have an intensity that this film really captured. I liked the mix of music on the soundtrack, not just from that *exact* era... teenagers/early 20 somethings at least back then seemed to know good music from previous decades that kids my daughters' ages absolutely don't seem to anymore. The scenes at the drive-in were bang-on (it made me really miss drive-ins), everything about the movie as a period-piece felt bang-on, and I'm the age to know.Another influence I saw that was intriguing was those old 50s teen cinematic cautionary tales (The Cool and the Crazy very much sprung to mind). Maybe that just adds another element of derivativeness (or would that be derivation?), but it was all put together nicely. And keeping in mind that this much of the tale is being told through the filter of a narrator who it's very much inferred knows of the ins and outs of the plot by rumour alone (and we all knew people, those near-mythic people. in our youth mostly by reputation alone like this), it explains any deficiencies in character development and how the story felt a little mythic itself.Anyways, rambling, I really, really enjoyed this, made me feel nostalgic, but while reminding me also that those times of our youth that we idealize as we get older had a lot of tragedy and heart-ache as well. I never review films here usually, but I think a lot of folks would skip over this, which I think would be a shame... any Gen X'ers/children of the late 80s I think would find this worth watching especially. But, then again, maybe this just led me down memory lane a bit because of some real commonalities with my own life at that same time (which is why I gave it a shot after reading the synopsis even after looking at how critics loathed this; I'm very glad I did and will probably even watch it again in a year or two).

I wasn't necessarily excited about movie before watching it. I was expecting a sort of knock off of a coming of age comedy set in a specific time period, throw in some sex and music and you have a run of the mill flick I've seen versions of a hundred times before Let me assure you this is not that! What an absolutely unique, fun spin on an age old story The director takes this film to unexpected places and the 3 young lead actors are without a doubt the Hollywood A-list of tomorrow. If you are trying to decide if you want to watch this or something else do yourself a favor and watch Hot Summer Nights. It's completely different from what you think it will be in the best possible way