A Dreamy Downtown Thriller: Ray J's Review - "Last Night In Soho"

🎶When you're alone

and life is making you lonely

you can always go

Downtown🎶

"Last Night In Soho" is a flashy, and rousing film that transports you back to the 1960's London club scene. I highly enjoyed this film, and in my opinion is one of the best movies of 2021, and for sure one of my favorites of the year👏👏🎬

The film follows a young woman named Eloise/Ellie (played by Thomasin Mckenzie), an aspiring fashion designer, inheriting the passion from her late mother. She lives with her grandmother, but after being accepted into a prestigious fashion school in London, she packs up her suitcase, and collection of 1960's vinyls, then heads to the city! I will also note that Ellie has an eerie sixth sense, as she see's apparitions of her late mother all the time. Ellie soon finds out that fashion school in London is not all it's cracked up to be, so she decides to get away from all the dorm noise, and rents a room from an elderly woman who lives by herself. While asleep during her first night renting the new room, Ellie soon finds herself in an incredible dream. A dream that has transported her back to the 1960's, an era that Ellie loves, filled with bright lights, and music, all of which sounds amazing right? Ellie discovers that in these dreams, which she continues to have for nights to come, she is actually in the body of a supreme night club singer named Sandie (played by Anya Taylor-Joy) who is trying to find the right connections to try and get her career launched off. Ellie is extremely intrigued at what these dreams have to offer, and can't wait to go back to sleep each night for more, that is until she starts to see what Sandie begins to endure through the many men she is introduced to through her boyfriend/manager, Jack (played by Matt Smith). Eventually, Ellie's obsessive fever dreams become a nightmare as she has a vision of Sandie being murdered😲 Now, she makes it her mission to find out the mystery of who killed Sandie!! Ellie has her suspicions, but will this obsessive mentality also interfere with her fashion creativity, and her new found romance with a boy from school, John (played Michael Ajao)?

I have been looking forward to this film for a while now, as the trailers looked absolutely amazing! "Last Night In Soho" does not disappoint👌 The cinematography is stunning, plus Thomasin Mckenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy put on incredibly hypnotic performances🌟🌟 You really feel like your back in the 1960's amongst the city, and club life of London while watching this movie...from the soundtrack, to the visuals! I loved everything about it!

The film of course has a bit of a crazy twist towards the end, which I kinda...sorta figured out, I think😅 I guess you could say one of the film's main messages is sexual abuse in the entertainment industry, which is handled here well, but in a supernatural way!

Anya Taylor-Joy is such a star. Her screen presence is insanely hypnotic, not just in this movie, but pretty much all of the films I've seen her in! As you could probably figure out from the opening of this review, the song "Downtown" originally by Petula Clark, is heavily featured in this film. Anya sings a chilling a cappella version of "Downtown" in the movie, and she has four versions of the song featured on the soundtrack and score, plus a cover of Cilla Black's "You're My World"🎶🎤

Thomasin Mckenzie is undoubtedly THE STAR of "Last Night In Soho", and her performance as Ellie is a slam dunk👏👏 WOW! She was also in the Academy Award winning film "Jojo Rabbit", in which I also enjoyed her performance, and the film itself....and most recently Thomasin was in the M. Night Shymalan film "Old" (not as great😬) Watch out for this young lady!

Consensus: Take yourself to the see this dreamy, supernatural thriller on the big screen🤩 "Last Night In Soho" was everything I imagined it was gonna be😄💚🎬

The Ray J's Reviews rating is:

5 out of 5 lime green hearts

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