Reviews

With its woke, know-it-all main characters, this series perfectly encapsulates the zeitgeist of the last couple of years. Their willingness to 'help others' is clearly not so much out of empathy as it is to feed their narcissism.

Without the abundant inconsistencies and implausibilities, the plot would not be able to accommodate the overly woke, pretentious characters in effortly knitting their way to a resolution. However, it does so quite well.

On a side note.

I'm pretty sure it's inadvisable to use that type of gas oven in a closed, unventilated room. Defect or no defect. So that's one thing the got right...

This movie clearly shows that, once again, the white man tries to bring nuclear devastation to Japan. One might suspect that this is some sort of (justified) cultural indoctrination. Afterall the movie supposedly was meant for kids.

Spacemans "superpowers" seem to be proportional tonthe threat he meets. The bigger the threat, the stronger he is. At other times, not so much...

At first glance the movie has a 50s feel to it, even though it's from the mid 60s. The movie suffers from poor acting and ridiculously poor fight scenes. All in all the production quality isn't bad, but it's far from great.

It's always hard with movies based on books. Reading the books, each person creates their own internal images of what they're reading. It's an impossible task for a director to recreate something that is identifiable by everyone. But wait... Dredd is based on a comic book, with pretty darn good drawings of everything. There's even another movie that got it right with the uniforms and the Lawmaster bikes. Was the director unaware of this when choosing how to portray Dredd's world? Just add water! The visuals are given and only needed a bit of polish. Guess they filmed it in the projects down the block? What could have been added was some true dilemma and depth. The director missed on so many count, this movie should have been judged!

The theme of this movie has been seen so many times before. The (almost heroic) criminal is chased by the dedicated (almost obsessive) law officer, eventually leading to the slaying of the criminal. Nothing of interest is added to the theme in this movie, actually this movie doesn't even make the bar set by previous movies in the genre.

It's long-winded, shallow, boring and seems to have been directed without any real sense of direction. It looks as if the camera crew got progressively more drunk/stoned - to such an extent that they obviously trashed the camera and had to buy a new one at Wal-Mart (as mentioned in another review). Seemingly the the director had a spell of schizophrenia, not being able to decide whether to make a dogme movie or not.

As my summary suggests, I find Public Enemies as entertaining as having an enema in public.

I was shocked at what this movie revealed. (Although I feel the softer Moore is losing his edge.)

I'm pretty indifferent to the fact that Americans (with or without healthcare) are getting screwed. The US claims to be the world's greatest democracy, so I guess the Americans are getting what they asked for?!?!

What really shocked me was that the France is light years ahead of Denmark.

In Denmark we're constantly pommeled with claims that we have the world's greatest health service, and social services in general. (This is probably symptomatic of a minute country's inferiority complexes...) Lately these services have greatly eroded, making us look like a socially underdeveloped country (like the US).

Jerry writes a best-seller about his experiences with Tom. This sets the scene for flashbacks to three cartoons: The Little Orphan, Cat Fishin' and Kitty Foiled.

***Spoiler*** Jerry is of course upset (being made the laughing stock) and let's Jerry have it. However, Jerry has a card up his sleeve. He's received a check for the book - half of which goes to Jerry.