What Is the Story About?
365 Days: This Day on Netflix takes up somewhat but not exactly from where 365 Days left off the story. Polish beauty Laura (Anna Maria Sieklucka) and Sicilian mafia lord Massimo (Michele Morrone) get married and try to lead a happy life. Laura’s increasing dissatisfaction with the overly protective lifestyle thrust upon her propels her into the company of sexy gardener, Nacho (Simone Susinna). Several plot twists later, Laura and Massimo’s chance of a blissful wedded life is about to be shattered.
Performances?
365 Days: This Day, like its predecessor 365 Days, isn’t quite memorable in the performances department. Leading lady Anna Maria Sieklucka is wooden and stilted in most scenes, with a face about as expressive as a pincushion. Michele Morrone doesn’t need to put his acting skills on display to attract the viewer—largely female; and we know why. So he proceeds to do just that – display zero acting skills – zilch! New entrant Simone Susinna is even more of an eye candy than Morrone. So he follows the lead of his co-sexy-co-star Morrone, and puts his acting skills into hibernation – that is, if the two hunky actors have any. The only actor who puts in a tiny effort to ’emote’ on screen—only just—is Magdalena Lamparska, who reprises her role of Laura’s bestie Olga from 365 Days.
Analysis
365 Days was about as mediocre as its sequel 365 Days: This Day in every department of the craft of filmmaking. But at least it had some semblance of a plot; something akin to a script (“are you lost, baby girl” notwithstanding). 365 Days: This Day has none of the above, and more of the mediocre than ever before.
The entire 110-minute runtime of the film is drowned out by a constant, exasperating, never-ending background score; made up of lousy, lacklustre, forgettable songs. Must say, whoever chose the soundtrack of 365 Days: This Day has terrible taste in music. Also, we reckon the sole purpose of playing a song every half-minute is so that the writers of 365 Days: This Day don’t have to bother with writing dialogues for the performers on screen.
However, the soundtrack is still tolerable when you compare it with the abysmal storyline of 365 Days: This Day (or the lack thereof). The plot of the film, if you can call it that, is only about how many times the writers can get the sexy, strapping leading men (Michele Morrone, Simone Susinna) to ravage the female protagonist; in how many inventive ways and inventive places— the golf course, the swimming pool, the ocean, an exaggerated hand-cuffs-and-rough-sex montage on Christmas day, and on and on and on).
Meanwhile, the plot makes a 2-second blink-and-miss appearance on a few occasions. They’re better labelled as transition shots between successive sex scenes. If you’re wondering — yes, there are but 2-second breathers between the lovemaking scenes. And the writer and director choose to squeeze in important plot points in those 2-second gaps – an undisclosed sibling, an unrevealed pregnancy, a brewing conspiracy —that’s it, that’s the plot.
365 Days: This Day chooses to gloss over the cliffhanger of 365 Days, and simply tells us what happened in the tunnel. No show, just tell. In fact, there’s a lot of ‘tell’ in the film – every plot point is told to the viewer. Maybe because the ‘show’ part of the screenplay is taken up by showing something else—and lots of it—altogether.
To sum it up, 365 Days: This Day is a poorly conceived and directed film. There’s no fluidity in the filmmaking, the direction is uninspired, and the production values of the film are tacky. The film exists only to titillate the senses of fans of erotica. But even the sex is awkward, clumsy and forced this time around. At least the lovemaking in 365 Days had a sense of urgency and vibrancy about it, which sparked the interest of viewers. In 365 Days: This Day, it is about as interesting as a faulty firecracker.
Music and Other Departments?
The music is terrible – some of the worst songs I’ve ever had the misfortune of listening to. The editing is non-existent – jerky shot transitions populate the runtime. The camerawork is just about OK.
Highlights?
None
Drawbacks?
Zero plot
Poor performances
Non-existent production values
Technically lacking
Terrible soundtrack
Did I Enjoy It?
No
Will You Recommend It?
No
365 Days: This Day Review by Binged Bureau
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