Wasp Network 2020 123movies

Watch: Wasp Network 2019 123movies, Full Movie Online – Havana, early 90’s. René González, a Cuban pilot, steals a plane and flees Cuba, leaving behind his beloved wife and daughter. He starts a new life in Miami. Other Cuban defectors soon follow and start a spy network. Their mission is to infiltrate violent anti-Castro organizations responsible for terror attacks on the island..
Plot: Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
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Ratings:

	5.9/10 Votes: 10,821
	40% | RottenTomatoes
	54/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 303 Popularity: 17.898 | TMDB

Reviews:

Wasp Network (2019) is “based on a true story”, but its makers may be looking at reality through ‘beer goggles.’ For example, there is a character played by Ana de Armas, who regardless of her talent – or lack thereof – reminds me of a young Tiffani Amber Thiessen. During the epilogue, however, we are shown a photo of the corresponding real person, and what we see is a thick, plump, buxom, etc., etc. woman, and there is nothing wrong with it just like there is nothing wrong with de Armas being slender; the problem lies in that the truth is manipulated to make it more attractive to the public. If director Olivier Assayas takes such liberty with a supporting character, how do we know what’s real and what’s a complete fabrication?

In keeping with this pattern, the locations are authentic, but even if the events of the film were equally genuine, Assayas manages to needlessly complicate them. In principle, I have nothing against non-linear stories told non-sequentially, but this script would already be hard to follow, with its espionage and counter-espionage, moles, agents and double-agents, and above all its moral ambiguity and political contradictions. This material calls for simplification, not convolution. I mean, if your movie is a quote-unquote true story, wouldn’t you want to push the truth all the way to the foreground? What’s the use of knowing what really “happened” if we don’t understand how and why it happened?

Having said that, Wagner Moura is perfect for Wasp Network for the same reasons that made him a wrong choice for the title role in Sergio. In both movies he is snooty, arrogant, and shallow; unbecoming characteristics for a noble United Nations diplomat, but which fit his opportunistic character like a glove here – a character who also happens to have the best lines in the movie ([devouring a Big Mac] “after years of eating McCastro’s, McDonald’s is a delicacy;” or, when a Cuban journalist asks him, while his wife watches the interview from Miami, what he misses most about his life on American soil: [thinks for a moment] “My Jeep Cherokee”).

Given the intriguing story and really good cast behind this, it ought to have been good. It isn’t. It meanders all over the place with way too many plots, sub plots and storylines all ambling about devoid of a solid narrative. It could be a six-parter if it wanted to be, but as a single film it just doesn’t really gel at all. Olivier Assayas clearly has some skin in the game as he sets out to interweave the political and personal stories of 5 Cubans who end up, by various means, in Florida in the 1990s. Tourist pilot Edgar Ramirez (“Rene”) is one of then, who leaves home and stunningly gorgeous wife Penelope Cruz (“Olga”) one day, pinches a plane and defects to the US where, together with “Juan Pablo” (Wagner Moura) he is soon part of a network that effectively tries to assist Cuban defectors to get to the USA. Their determination to destabilise the Castro administration starts to lead them into more complex, moral choices whilst we continue to see his wife struggling with day to day life back home with their daughter. That’s just the first half hour… There are plenty more characters, and storylines; CIA involvement; the infamous hotel bombs of 1997 – all told in a rigidly episodic fashion. It is trying to cram way too much into two hours and as such the characterisations suffer. It’s not that you don’t like or sympathise with them, it’s that you don’t ever feel you really know or understand them – Gael García Bernal as the equivalent of “Control” somehow lacks any menace or sophistication too. There is some beautiful photography of the island of Cuba itself, and of the Canary Islands, and it looks great, the cast look great, but it needed much more focus and much tighter plot filtration.

Quite a mess
Olivier Assayas’ ‘Wasp Network’ had the opportunity for substantial dramatic material with its fascinating based-on-a-true-story plot and a star-studded cast. Unfortunately, the story is so jam-packed with various narratives and characters it becomes convoluted, confusing, and tiring to watch. Quite a mess.

Not good, but for the wrong reasons
Many people here gave this movie a bad review because they don´t agre with it´s political views. I think that´s dumb. The movie is bad because it´s BORING and it doesn´t care about what it´s telling. Not because it might be historically innacurate or not being anti-castro enough!

BTW, Lots of hollywood movies despict historical events wrong or tergiversed but nobody seems to care this much, usually because they like that version more. They only care about the “agenda” in a movie when it´s different from their own, not when there is one.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 7 min (127 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated TV-MA
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director Olivier Assayas
Writer Olivier Assayas, Fernando Morais
Actors Penélope Cruz, Edgar Ramírez, Gael García Bernal
Country France, Brazil, Spain, Belgium
Awards 1 win & 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Sony CineAlta Venice, Arri/Zeiss Ultra Prime Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format AXS-R7
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (master format), X-OCN ST (6K) (source format)
Printed Film Format DCP, Video (UHD)