Film Review: The Disaster Artist (2017)

Rating: 8/10
Genre: Drama/Biography
Related Titles: The Room, Saving Mr Banks, Finding Neverland
By Leanne Harragan

A celebration of "The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made", the 'Disaster Artist' takes you behind the scenes of Tommy Wiseau's 'The Room' a film that even he didn't fully understand. Watch his weird, wonderful and sometimes questionable methods in film-making. 

Having seen 'The Room' I was definitely intrigued to find out more behind this cult-classic and hands down the weirdest film I've ever seen. I didn't have high hopes, if I'm being completely honest, James Franco and his crew generally don't have the best rep for film making - don't get me wrong they've made some great films but nothing truly of note; until now. 

'The Disaster Artist' is hilarious and there was something so mesmerising about it, I couldn't take my eyes of the screen and was hooked. James Franco was incredible playing Tommy Wiseau and I could really feel the dedication he'd put into the character, he was unrecognisable. There were also some great cameos that appeared! 

This film could easily have been a mockery of the film but instead focuses on the true friendships that were formed during the making of this film and how you can succeed (or fail depending on your opinions of 'The Room') at anything if you just try hard enough and stick to your guns. 

I want to give final mention to the end credits where they showed scenes from 'The Room' lined up next to shots from 'The Disaster Artist', they went together perfectly and you can see the effort that went into making the scenes look so alike. I also enjoyed the information given about Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero and still think it's so strange that so little is known about Wiseau.