A Hologram For The King (2016) - Hollowness!

★★☆☆☆

A hologram’s nothing real but it seems so! It’s just, as you know, a projection of something real. But could it be that something real is just another projection of something more real? Then you’d inevitably ask, what is real exactly? Some scientists believe that we’re in fact living in a hologram. Meaning the whole universe that we’ve learned is nothing but a fake! So how could we possibly get to know what is real while we’re actually not real? Instead of trying to figure out what is real, I guess it’s better and probably easier for us to keep in mind what is not, because that’s what we experience every day truly, unless you’re just ignoring it!

The film told in short flashbacks from time to time feels like a surreal hologram indeed. It’s not that I don’t appreciate it. It’s just that at this time of my life, I’d prefer something either more adventurous and out of mind, or simply more realistic and inspirational than this. ‘A Hologram For The King’ is neither a good comedy nor an encouraging drama. It’s kind of lost embarrassingly in between, and thus not at all impressive, though Tom Hanks puts on a decent performance like he’s always been able to. It seems to want to tell about relationships and the fancy side of starting anew, but I don’t know, it leaves me only hollowness in the end!