The Intern: Written and Directed by Nancy Myers, Starring: Robert De Niro, and Anne Hathaway9/26/2015 The Intern is an ok movie for the most part. It’s enjoyable, and you can smile at it’s relative inoffensiveness. It’s nice. It’s not all that compelling though. What’s awfully good about the film though, is definitely the actors that are portraying the characters in the film. The two stars of The Intern are Robert De Niro, and Anne Hathaway, and they both do a pretty nice job. De Niro is always a very reliable actor, and I enjoyed his very earnest portrayal of a man who is bored of retirement, and then becomes an intern at a very prestigious company. This company is run by Anne Hathaway ,who is starting to feel the pressure of the large company around her. Her performance is admirable too, with her being kind of on a safe autopilot mode throughout the film. She gets moments to shine, especially in a late film monologue, but I think once a person has seen The Devil Wears Prada, they’ll get an idea of what her performance in this film is like. De Niro, and the others equip themselves well, but to be honest, not much of full interest happens in The Intern. The structure of the story is actually the film’s main shortcoming with an Act 3 twist kind of coming out of nowhere, and pushing the film into about 15 minutes too long category. What’s there is not really bad, it just goes on a little too long, and the thin veneer of “the fluffy charming film” fades away. The film fights that though, really. Nancy Myers has always made films that were funny, and at times The Intern is very funny. There’s a scene with a masseuse that is incredibly staged, and I laughed my ass off at it. Though, there’s not enough of these to really make the movie. So here we have a sweet, fluffy movie about an old man becoming an intern, and helping the people around him. And he’s played by Robert De Niro, who is super reliable. The film itself does kind of fall apart in it’s third act, but it’s charming enough. I’ll take it. I give The Intern a 6.5 out of 10.
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