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The Menu (2022)
More story in the characters than the plot
The Menu is a slow burning film with some unusual quirks to it, but nothing really suprising.
I found the film ruined by the main character played by Anya-Taylor Joy, as Margot (terrible name she doesn't fit) because her character just unravelled the mystery of everything without her even supposed to being there. She was let off too easily, and it was just a cheap sewing up of a story in her common, unremarkable character.
The characters within the restaurant are really stereotypical bad guys, each with their own bent moral compass guiding them. I wish we had, had an original casting of characters not to like, instead of just the easy chauvanist men, they tripled, just to fill a table. Their characters are pointless and bring nothing to the table with some horrendous dialogue between them, no man has ever spoken. We've all after all, seen a character play the judge, jury and executioner within a story haven't we? Well this is nothing new sadly.
Which is where Margot just doesn't fit in. She doesn't play by the book and throws a spanner in the entire workings of the night in the Menu. The entire film felt like it would have been more interesting without her in it.
Overall I wanted this film to be more than it was, but it just wasn't much. It was like deconstructed film, where you could taste all the elements that made it great, and see them for what they are, but together? They had no place being in the same film.
The film wasn't scary like a horror, it wasn't funny, and it wasn't very dramatical either. I wasn't afraid for any of the characters or left wondering, I was just left waiting for them to meet their fates. Some scenes didn't even really make sense either, perhaps being a victim of crude editing. Who knows.
Where's the mystery in that?
Glass Onion (2022)
A victim of editing?
This movie had the potential to be a lot better than it was if it wasn't for the small things.
I mean the masks in this movie for the characters all outside in the fresh air looked SO stupid, when some weren't even wearing them. Some characters were identified with their masks on, others not, and you're left wondering how they'd know who each other are?
The wokery with this movie is of course quite high, and of course only the good actors use Apple products.... So...
The characters were all nicely designed to fit their roles.
The story, in places was nicely written.
The script was all good. (Daniel Craig's accent is AWFUL)
The direction of the movie flowed well.
What I didn't like was the "brains" of this movie being left on the floor. The end revelation of the movie was really quite stupid, and didn't make fundamental sense. It left the audience feeling like the fool, for watching a movie so dumb. I think parts of the movie were a victim to editing, losing the coheshion on the movies story. The more the story unravelled, the less it made sense the event happened.
The end climax makes just as little sense as the middle to end part of the story making zero sense. The movie falls apart badly. It's a straight to DVD style ending. I mean if this is how the writer intended then he really was a one hit wonder, as the misdirection of this movie just leaves the audience cringing.
Samaritan (2022)
Better than NOPE
This film is pretty simple, and you've seen it all before.
It pretty much plays out like any 90's action movie involving a child that isn't getting the attention he needs in this case and falling into trouble as a city kid living in poverty.
The "hero's" story has a back story to it, that feels like it has some legs on it, but isn't really played out as well as it should before the twist or reveal at the end of movie.
The kid in this movie's acting is alright. He's nothing special in delivery and in presence. But I guess that's how he's made out to be, with a cheap haircut and no stand out features.
Stallone's character is alright. As an "ex superhero" once before, he now plays a stoic, reclusive garbage man, just minding his own business, until this kid shows up in his life getting bullied, and hinting to him an old enemy of his is being reborn.
From then on, the story kind plays out how you expect it would be. ~
The film doesn't feel overly long, and the setup for the film doesn't need an entire hour (looking at you NOPE) to get into it. You don't expect much, and this film delivers exactly what you're expecting. No cheap looking special effects. No huge CGI helped stunts. Everything is kept kinda subtle and ticking over.
Like I said, if you're expecting a PG rated action movie from the 90's, this is it. Could have been more stylish or slick in places, or a tidier script to get some laughs, but as it is, its better than a lot of films, simply due to their terrible quality, this is elevated above average as a film.
Nope (2022)
Plenty to like about this movie, but enough not to like everywhere!
So what I liked,
Pro's:
The directing is beautiful. All the shots and scenery used is really top notch and gives the film a real atmosphere of being exposed.
The atmosphere is generally excellent, with a real sense of tension built up. This film doesn't have as many jumpy moments as you'd expect, but the tension is there, and it would be a fun film to watch with friends.
What I didn't like,
Con's:
The script is awful. The country drawl in the characters is just overwhelming at times, it makes anything needed to be said urgently just come across as over acted. You have one sedated character, and one hyper active character. Both of them say very little of any intelligence at any time. You're just waiting an age for one to say something, and the other a long time to say anything you'd care to understand.
The acting is pretty painful at times. The first explanation of "what is seen" is just sinfully cliche. I'm not sure how that wasn't spotted. Again, going back to the sedated character of Daniel Kaluuya, there's no real explanation to why he acts the part almost like he's autistic or mentally disabled. It's over acted to portray this, but its just not needed.
The film is nearly an hour TOO LONG. The first hour of the film could have been easily fit in 20 minutes of the movie. The set up time of the movie goes so slowly, it will likely kill any interest in this film if you're with friends expecting something at any pace in this movie.
Overall, the beginning, middle and end of this film just aren't well structured. The beginning a slow hot mess off too much, too slowly. The middle a pretty formulaic plod over what you've already seen in countless budget horror movies. The end is concluding, but too easy and dumb.
This movie is more style over substance.
The Adam Project (2022)
Ryan Reynolds plays, Ryan Reynolds, as standard, and ruins this movie!
Wow this movie is so dumb. Sadly its the length of the movie that just pushes this movie into the absurd at times.
I mean from the offski, Ryan Reynolds sarcastic, Chandler Bing-esque humour gets SO tiring, so quickly in this movie. Ryan doesn't play a character, he just plays himself. There is absolutely nothing to his character at all worth noting about. Most of the time, his lines just don't really fit the movie, or the tone of the scene.
The bad guys are horribly cliched, with stupid costumes and angry scowls. You don't need to know much from them besides the fact that some of them look really cheap, in their shiny metal suits, that have a useless invisible cloak to them. Why those henchmen in invisible suits decide to make themselves visible just to attack somebody, I have no idea, they're just stupid and cheap looking. They look like they've come from a Power Rangers Movie.
Mark Ruffalo plays a character, and his role only starts like 2/3rd into the movie. His introduction is really quite laboured, as the setup from Ryan playing Ryan leaves little to the imagination what's coming. He's supposed to come across as really smart, but the writing is just atrocious, they use too many worn out buzz words and stolen ideas from other movies.
Zoe Saldana, plays a character who's lines seem to have been written by a 12 year old. Throughout the film, her character just appears flat, and unsuprising in anyway. From the moment she was on screen, you knew what her fate was, and it couldn't come quick enough honestly.
Everything else about the film? Well the special FX are really cheap looking. You know, explosions on things with no burn marks left. Really awful CGI that looks ontop of something instead of in it. I don't understand how they afforded Ryan Reynolds, and couldn't afford better CGI. The sounds, OH MY GOD, were so cheesy! At any and every point, the humour just felt forced the way stupid sound FX were constantly added in, its so childish. The stupid sound FX made to sound Star War-esque were just groan inducing, as not only does the film use these sounds (Pod racers, light sabers, doors closing etc) they also use some other cliched weapons from the franchise to give the film more retro feel to it. All the fight scenes just felt horribly choregraphed, they were too technical, and not natural feeling at all. The use of so many hand held weapons over a gun, just looked like desperation in this film, I'm suprised they didn't have a sumurai sword in this film, or a Captain America style shield moment (maybe they did, and I fortunately forgot it).
Overall I'd say this film was entertaining, but just straight up stupid sadly. You could happily walk out of this movie to make a snack and come and return and miss nothing important. The film is simply too long for its content and basic storyline, you just wanted it to be over much earlier. I really love Sci-Fi films, but this was just dumb to the core, and Ryan Reynolds pretty much ruined this movie, playing Ryan Reynolds in it, instead of a likeable character with a script that actually suited the movie.
The King's Man (2021)
Tiresome, samey, but entertaining
So if you liked the first two movies you will enjoy this movie, but not as much.
The movie is much slower, and less flashy than the original 2 films.
Sadly it just feels less special than the other two movies too.
The time jumps, the scene jumps from country to country all feels just thrown together.
For all the delays this film has suffered, it should have been better.
The sad thing is, it only tries the same tricks its previous movies have done before, but much less. It doesn't do anything new, but everything you liked from the old movies is just watered down. You can predict the next scene, or what is about to happen, off the way the everything is shot and the music. You actually grown bored at times when something doesn't go to plan, nothing goes to plan, and it just feels like tension, slapped on forced tension, slapped on hysterical tension to a scene. Its too much at times.
The villain of this movie isn't anywhere near as good as Samuel L Jackson's villain, and his face is kept hidden from you in a rather unimaginative manner. Sadly, there is no suprise who is behind the shadow, only dissapointment the movie is so one dimensional, there wasn't anybody else it could be.
Overall, this movie is just too long for an origin story, that doesn't actually give you anything you haven't seen before. If you enjoyed the first two movies, just watch either one instead of this film, as its just stale.
Gold (2022)
This film has atmosphere, and then it doesn't...
Sorry, so imagine a film with an atmosphere and feeling to it of loneliness, emptiness and thirst.
Now imagine a cliched trick on the audience plenty of horror films have used before, where the situation isn't quite what its presented as?
Now imagine that bomb of truth just dropping at the very end of the movie, just destroying what feels like 2 hours you've spent watching a film that's going to save itself, transforming into a happy, positive vibe filled movie, that just NEVER COMES.
What contents is in this film, just feels entirely wasted for all its worth due to its horrendous ending. There's like 5 characters in this entire movie. 3 of them are irrelevant and pointless, and you'd struggle to name the 2 that matter.
This film is absolutely pointless to watch, and just leaves you feeling enraged to have wasted so much time on it. Seriously embarassing film with a stupid ending that's just sloppy and crude.
Miracle Workers (2019)
The first season is really fantastic, the others, meh...
Ok, the first season has a really intersting premise.
God (Buscemi) decides to end the world after the dawning reality, its not going too well on Earth.
Down in the "answered prayers" department in heaven, Radcliffe's character sits, and answers little prayers, mostly lost keys, lost gloves, things like that.
An employee who was working in another department makes an arugment to be promoted, to which her boss agrees, and she joins Radcliffe's character answering prayers, until they all learn of God deciding to end the world.
She decides to make a bet with him, to answer one "impossible" class prayer that only god handles (but has given up, just like he's given up with Earth) to make two people who are unlucky in love, kiss within 2 weeks. God sets the bet, and on a timing device that once expired, Earth goes boom.
So the episodes run along really nicely to work for these two unlucky citizens of Earth to fall for each other with subtle/not so subtle hints from heaven trying to steer each other into each other.
It's a really nice comedy, that isn't too technical, too religious, or particularly hard to digest. It'd make for really nice dinner TV. Nothing to laugh too hard at to choke on, and nothing X-rated if the kids over hear. The jokes are clever and subtle though, and require some attention not to miss them, as they're not shouted at you like an American comedy sometimes only insists on. It's not a futuristic sci-fi, nor is it old fashioned, it really just set in todays time with a little bit of comedy fantasy added in. It's fantastic series, 9/10 worthy.
The second season?! Meeeeeeeh, I'm just so bored of it. The premise is completely new, only the actors are the same, and everyone has become new characters. It really has no relation to the first season in anyway, and I don't know why it goes under the same title. The season has a lot less story to it, and it really feels quite plodding and like its going nowhere. Because of its diverse cast (fine for the heavens) it looks really woke in the medievil times, as all these people of colour exist in a land where continental travel didn't really exist just to settle anywhere. The second season really throws a lot of talent and acting skill onto the scene of pantomime, and it just feels stale. The jokes can't be as sharp and edgy, so they're really too soft to remember.
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Everything about this movie, screams CHEAP
This movie was pretty intriguing for the first hour. I thought it was an interesting spin on things, how the Matrix could be reloaded/restarted/respun according to what we know of the Matrix. Everything fitted in nicely enough but something did grate on me almost immediately, that I tried to ignore for the next 2 hours.
The special FX look cheap. Tacky. Low rent.
It wasn't just how they were used, but how everything was shot. The fight scenes looked painfully choreographed, so you just felt like it was like watching a load of extremely fragile pensioners get every second of help they could to make them seem atheletic and doing what they're doing. It doesn't work. It even makes the younger actors look terrible.
I gotta agree with other reviewers when I say, it feels unbelievable how this movie could come from the same people who made the original.
I mean the lack of style in this movie, and the way it jokes with original, and takes elements from its past to recreate everything similar, but modern, and without polish, or a single element of the bleeding edge of cool/awesome. It leaves you feeling hollow. The saddest part is, they were really trying! I mean, they really tried with this movie, and it just falls so far short. Action scenes don't leave you holding your breath, or your heart racing, they leave you bored, like something you've seen from another movie (done better) and just puzzled why the scene doesn't stop, when it doesn't work.
There's a pretty obvious wokeness to the movie, with male actors and characters making up the minority of everyone, and every line said. This is pushed further as the movie continues to a large degree, many will find off putting, as whilst this could be called a respin of the original story, they've clearly switched things to reflect how the Wachowski's have changed.
Neil Patrick Harris in this movie! Doesn't even work! He's not serious enough, and he doesn't have the presence in this movie for his part. That's not entirely his fault, he plays his part well, but his character just feels like a cliched baddy, all mouth and no trousers without any personal menace, malice or strength.
Overall, this movie is a lot like the orange squash/cordial drink you might have had at school. It's a warm, watered down version of the original, so far gone, what you can taste of the original orange flavour just tastes like chemicals with an aroma of the fruit. I don't even want to think about what they're replacing sugar with now in this remake as it tastes nothing like sugar!
I mean as a movie, it is complete, but it sets up a sequel I just couldn't be paid to watch. How it fits in with the original movies? I expect it will just make zero sense, and ruin the original (and its 2 awful sequels) even further.
Chaos Walking (2021)
PAINFULLY DULL, overly long, incredibly dumb, and of course sexist...
What to make of this film?!
Well for one, the noise you see in the trailer, (existing as a colourful like aura around the heads of characters) becomes incredibly irritating to the audience after about 5 minutes.
Hearing everything the character says, repeated multiple times, like their inner monologues are out to hear, gets painfull irritating by the end of the movie, that just doesn't come fast enough.
So at first, its a pretty dull and boring Western film, with Tom (as Todd) representing a runt of the litter style kid in this movie. Yeah I know, he's 25, but he's typecasted isn't he?
Mad Mikkelsen plays the leader of the community of men they're in. It's never explained why or how he's the leader, and answering that mystery would just be another 20 minutes you don't need in this movie.
Daisy Ridley plays a young women who's a survivor from an earth like ship, on the planet they're all on. Of course she bumps into Todd, and the pair form a very cliched, formulaic plan to escape, (why?) and go to a safe heaven for her, whilst Todd will totally disown his entire family and community for this woman he's just met.
Cue cliched encouragement from Mad Mikkelsen, who seems to have learnt his skills from the Gillette code book of how to be a toxic man.
The Preacher, a character first introduced along side Todd/Tom, is never explained, and just speaks nonsense. His character is pointless and without any context in this film. All he serves as, is the leaders lead henchman, and its hysterical nonsense.
What's sexist about this movie, is that the movie is all about division, where the men were driven mad by the idea men's inner voices could be heard out loud, whilst women didn't. This means (on this world) that men are unreliable, rude, liabilities that need to be managed by women apparently, or they're prone to group thinking, and being influenced to kill and murder. All the men in this film are BAD, all the women are PURE AND INNOCENT.
Even the ending is like some kind of joke on men, as the lead character understandably quite fancies the only woman he's even seen in his life, and he's just friendzoned, despite saving her countless times, without even an explanation. It doesn't work with the audience, it doesn't work as a joke, it just falls flat.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Boring, recycled, charmless, by order propaganda
Have you watched a Marvel action superhero movie before?
What if you've watched, ALL the Marvel superhero movies?
Then you're in for some HOT garbage in this movie, as this was made to order, copying EVERY scene from other Marvel movies.
I mean every fight scene just felt like I'd watched it before, except now the characters doing them I had even less connection with. I'm bored with fights on buses and trains and people leaping around scaffolding. Every Marvel movie has a fight scene on a bus or a train, but this one felt REALLY recycled.
Getting back round to the characters, besides Shang Chi, I can't remember his sisters name, or his weird friends name, who served zero purpose in the movie, accept serving as a loud mouthed joke teller. It was almost as if they wanted a Kevin Hart like star, but had to settle with Awkwafina? And Shang's sister? Just added nothing to the story or the movie. She looked NOTHING like Shang either, or her younger self, the casting was well off there.
Ben Kingsley showing up was amusing, but honestly that was it when it cames to laughs. You could see every joke coming up 30 seconds before it was delivered, because it was a recycled joke from other Marvel superhero movie.
Wong and The Abomination make a cameo appearance in this movie, but their addition is given NO CONTEXT, and makes zero sense, and adds nothing to the movie or their own stories.
Overall, I'd just say every character felt, just like a Chinese copy or a character you've already seen in a Marvel movie before. By the end, I felt like I had watched a propaganda movie made by the CCP. It was like ordering a Chinese, except it came drowned in a bath of Chinese sauce, served on a bed of soggy Chinese mythology. Even the post credit scene wasn't worth sticking around to watch as it contains Marvel's most hated character to ever get a movie in it.
Stargirl (2020)
This series is strictly for kids, and adults desperate with nothing to watch
So this series is fun, but dumb fun, aimed strictly at kids, and more specifically teenage girls.
The props and hmm, special FX used in this series are designed to make do, without blowing the budget. It's very much a Doctor Who like production quality, and if you look too close, you'll see all the seams and horrors of the cheap costumes, cheap props, cheap lighting, and cheap special FX.
What I don't get is why this series script is of the same low budget. The script is, woeful, its so cheesy and forced at times. Everyone plays a great role with what they have, but the lines feel so forced because the scenes are of such low quality, its like the actors found it hard to get more from what they had.
I was amazed to read Brec Bessinger, is actually 22 years old, and not 15 like her character, as the girl can act, but she's been given a script a 15yr girl new to acting would get teeth into, its well beneath her! Luke Wilson too is great in this series, but his role is confusingly cheap, as he's sidekick/leader/Guardian yet he does all of these roles so badly, he's really wasted within a character badly written and gimped.
There's a strong female bias to this story as you'd expect being written today. Most of the bad guys that are fleshed out are written as male, whilst basically all the Superhero's are recast as teenage girls. Whilst this wouldn't be such a bad thing, these girls are pretty immature, and dumb, and represent the most naive and stupid of the bunch. They fit cliched stereotypes today, which is exactly what the writer wanted, and its too easy.
The entire series is very forumlaic, with the rebirth of a superhero like story. You won't find any suprises along the way, and the whole story is just spoon fed to you. Whilst its fun, its not thinking fun, and you'd enjoy this series better drunk or high. Watch this if you're really desperate, as its better than Invicible for sure, as at least this series is what it is, but its not even comparable to fun like The Boy's, for adults.
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
The trailer is MUCH better than the movie
So from the trailer you've probably seen, you're expecting slick, retro 80's in your face styling, lights, music, hair....
And its there!
BUT, it's hard to really notice as you're just let down by this movie in so many other places. If you're all familiar with Aladdin, or and story with a Genie, then yeah, you're kinda know where this story is going.
The movie starts off from nowhere, where Wonder Woman is working at a Smithsonian museum looking at artifacts, still cut up about losing Steve in World War 1, or the Great War.
There a bumbling, socially awkward and shrinking violet, Barbara Minerva discovers some cheap looking crystal, that the museum and everyone are 50/50 is probably a cheap fake froma gift shop. WW bumps into Barbara and she shows her the crystal, which brings wishes to people touching the stone.
And so the cliche's begin.
Whilst there was less of a man hating theme going on in this movie, all the men are the bad guys and they're very crudely written. I was annoyed in the first few opening scenes, they hated men so much, they actually reused one grey haired extra as a thug robbing a jewelry shop, and then later in another scene as an FBI agent. The directing was really shoddy, as you get a good look of the same guy twice in both scenes, I thought his character would be revealed later, but no! Just shoddy directing! A few extra's are used twice, or more times throughout this movie, and its annoying.
Pedro Pascal is badly wasted in this movie, playing a rather desperate loser father, who is faking it as a TV personality about to lose everything trying to con everyone into buying his oil, that doesn't exist. This character just doesn't make sense, and becomes totally one dimensional, despite the rather obvious character change mid way through the movie, nothing is explained about this. He just goes loopy for no reason really, and his efforts to just be an inspiration to his son is just blown up by his greedy ambition it seems. This all gets very tired and stupid, as he was a good dad, but nothing goes on to explaining this all like where the mother is. He totally loses all perspective of his objective, as does the audience, as its not really clear what his overall objective is. Rule the world? Feed off the world? We just don't know his mission.
Kristin Wiig is good, but her character is just too easy for her. She chooses her path ignoring any rational thinking and its just jarring.
My other major gripes with the movie besides the plot, and the directing is the god awful budget special effects. At times they look really bad and cheap, and you think they're being used for comedic effect in this cheap manner, but its not. The special effects don't get any better through the movie.
There are very few spectacular fight scenes throughout this movie. The music throughout, for Han's Zimmer, was nothing special. We learn a little more about Diana and her powers which is something substantial, but the other things we discover are, well, POWER RANGERS-esque.
I really loved Wonder Woman 1, despite its very obvious and many flaws, this movie just stretches those flaws out even further, and I don't think Patty Jenkins is a good director anymore, Wonder Woman 1 was just the abnormal jewel in her otherwise, unspectacular resume.
Tenet (2020)
An engaging film that holds your interest, that's as confusing as it is fast paced
Ok so the good.
This movie has some great action scenes. It has some great scenes. It has a good sound track. Everyone plays a great part throughout this movie, and scripts are on point with the characters on display. Everything feels very well directed in the broad scale of elements.
The Ok...
This film is long, and a lot of scenes have been cut down or just removed to fit the edit. This is evident when in certain scenes you feel are flying by actually have 15/30 minutes in between when they're rellocated from the middle of a busy highway, to a dock warehouse in the next scene with the same characters. This is skimmed over badly to the point where one second they're in London, the next in a dessert. Given how crammed this movie is, its not a big deal, but makes the movie even harder to understand. The special FX or explosions in this case are a little over the top. Everything explodes with LOADS of FIRE, which makes it seem a bit cheap. Car's zipping along at highway speeds in reverse didn't make much sense. Some of the action scenes got very samey and a little tiring towards the end of the film, as it just gets reused the effects they keep using. Some of the characters are kinda weak, but are they minor or major? You don't know if you don't pay careful attention. You barely know there names either.
The Bad...
Well, if you miss a conversation in this film, you have to repeat it, or you won't understand the film. If anyone tells you they understood this film the first time, congratulations, you've found a liar. This film is incredibly confusing and between us 3 adult men aged between 35 - 53, none of us got it. You barely know characters names as they don't repeat them being introduced to X, Y and Z in the future. The volume of the music compared the dialogue is just a joke. It just feels like in every action scene when the music gets all intense, you can't even hear what the characters are saying. This happens, OVER AND OVER again. It's only about 3/4 of the way through the film we learn what the entire point of the film is all about, as everything until then has just been background filler. The last 1/4 of the film felt so squeezed in, it has some horrible cliche's a film of this calibre just should have had.
To note, I really hated Inception, but I found this movie a little easier to like. Still had much the same nagging points though, like an overly complex story for a very simple premise of a movie. This is revealed much to late through the movie, where half the movie has past and just isn't really relevant after. The music, was just too loud against the volume of the characters. You're left with more questions than answers after the movie, and much of it is never even touched on, or at least I missed the conversation they had explaining it, because a pin dropped in the room, and I couldn't hear it over the deafening music playing throughout the movie. The cliche's at the end of the movie, yeeah I thought that was a weak twist to such a movie.
Enola Holmes (2020)
Boring, tame and an hour too long
Ok, so this is a new take on Sherlock Holmes. Enola Holmes is the brat little sister of the great Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill) and the eldest brother Mycroft Holmes.
Murder, mystery, you know the story, right?
Well, this time around the mystery isn't anything as exciting. There are a few mysteries in one in this story, two of them present themselves in the opening 15 minutes of the movie, the last comes much later along.
The problem is, the mysteries are pretty tame by Sherlock standards. Finding out the mysteries with the film, feels incredibly stretched, as too many times through this movie, we see flashbacks that just add nothing to the story or mystery in clues. You don't try and predict the mystery as the story progresses, you just sit quietly expecting a grand reveal at the end, but it never comes. There are plenty of feminist, woke parts to this movie. An all womens self defence class run by a black woman, above a tea shop? Should have been left on the cuttin room floor, as that only served as a minor clue source that took up too much time.
Between 4 of us adults watching this film, we struggled to maintain focus on the film, the mystery to it all, fairly predictable. So there is no grand reveal, and neither is there a point to the main mystery, as apparently it wasn't a bread crumb trail left to follow (despite it clearly being so) as there was nothing missing, it was just past off as a normal the "twist" to the end.
The other storylines being sewn up are VERY predictable, but relate to characters that aren't even apart of the film as characters, so its like "oh the maid did it" even though she had one scene in the entire film where she didn't even speak. So weak!
Enola is funny at times, but mostly pretty annoying. She breaks the 4th wall, talking to the audience at times, but it comes across as trying to be too clever, where you're left thinking "why can't some of that humour and sense of reality be put into the actual script and dialogue of the characters?" She's both a super strong fighter, and a coward running away from trouble she could have previously handled. Sherlock has barely a part in this movie, Henry Cavill making zero impact in this, so if you're a fan, you'll be yearning for more. The main Bad Guy? Well, he's sadly no mystery either as apparent early on through the movie. The movie tends to take a dump regularly on men, with female characters constantly referring to men as useless. Part of the story seems to almost justify murder to push an agenda of womens rights. It didn't feel right towards the end of the movie the message being put out, seems to be its ok to hate on men, and hurt people to push your agenda when its feminism leading the kill.
And my god, this movie is boring! Was easily an hour too long at 2 hours, where this could have easily been a Christmas 1 hour special wrapped up very neatly, if it had brung in the characters played by stars to make it shine more. They had nothing to add to this movie.
Project Power (2020)
Forgettable, average, Netflix, mediocrity
So this film has an interesting premise.
A super drug, that gives users incredible super powers, but for only 5 minutes, that can have adverse effects, causes widespread city wide crime.
So, why is this film so average then?
Well for one thing, the script is WOEFUL. Having a character wake up asking "What's going on? Where am I?" has a horrible response from the black actors like they have some kind of mental impairment regarding their speech, as "Man?! WHY YOU TRIPPING?! I'm about to pop a cap in your a...." The responses of character at times, feels totally unconnected with the question.
Jamie Foxx's character is a mess.
Joseph Gordon Levitt character is a mess.
Other characters are just, badly cobbled together.
The ending is horribly predictable. Overall, this film just took the notion of limitless, and put it in the hands of some very amateur writers.
The direction of this movie too is pretty horrible, trying to be overly trendy with super fast shots blending one scene into another, and it just makes you feel kinda vision sick. It looks totally wrong in such a movie too.
Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019)
Not like any other Tarrantino movies
So this movie is quite unique.
As its a version of history leading up to the events of Sharon Tate's death, played by Margot Robbie.
First off, the story regarding Sharon Tate, is almost completely seperate from the characters that are focused on in this movie.
We see snippets of her day to day life, but at no point does she mix with the main characters in Pitt and Dicaprio.
Pitt and Dicaprio's characters really play as a filler story, to the end of the movie. This all becomes apparent towards the end.
Overall, Pitt and Dicaprio's character seem unusually dull and boring. Sure Pitt's character has flashes of brilliance, but this is a 2 and half hour film, and those flashes are so far between. Dicaprio's character, is well, irrelevant nearly. He provides a few laughs, but he doesn't have much of an edge, which is weird being this is a Tarrantino movie. You keep expecting more from Pitt's character too, but then you just walk into the end of the movie, and then that's it.
Apparently Dakota Fanning was in this movie. Don't even remember her...
Overall, this is probably the worst Tarrantino movie I've ever seen, and I've loved all his previous work, besides Jackie Brown, which was also not good.
Inception (2010)
The worst movie I'll never forget
This movie started off terrible, and then just got worse and worse.
From the premise of the movie, the ending, it was cliche and tiresome to the point of annoyance. I nearly walked out of this film. With the 2 other people I watched this movie with, I asked them both to name one other characters name in this movie 5 minutes after we walked out of it. Neither could name a character besides the lead, who was only memorable as he was a complete an utter liability (DiCaprio's character Cobb).
Each character is introduced into this movie like a comedy, with no backstory, or substance to them, and with there name barely mentioned. The lead characters father introduces one of the character, which just happens to be a fresh face university student, who just happens to be down for some CRIME.
The chemist, who has a maybe a hundred different bottles of potions behind him, ALL UNLABELLED, who just picks one out and says "this is the one you need, oh yeah, I'm down for some CRIME, I'll join you."
All the other characters are incredibly forgettable as you go further into this movie and the plot unravells, where you begin to think to yourself "is this the best way to do this? Or just the most complicated and ridiculous way?" Southparks parody of this film sums up this movie perfectly.
The dramatic scenes of tension are EXHAUSTING where you actually get bored of them, and the pace of the scene is just frozen in a seizure. It's not comfortable at all that was where I just wanted to walk out.
The lead character is also a cliched abomination that lets this entire movie down with his backstory, that lingers like a leaking sewer in the air. It slows down the entire movie again, and caps it all off too.
People rating this movie so highly really haven't looked at this movie objectively at the substance of the movie or its characters, or the MANY, MAAAANY holes in the story, or just how cliche the entire premise and story is. The worst movie I'll never forget.
I Kill Giants (2017)
Seriously depressing and boring
This movie wasn't what I thought at all.
It really clings on to the name Harry Potter, to entice viewers in, but if you're looking for any of the fantasy and fun of Harry Potter, you will be sorely disappointed in this movie.
For one thing, there are no laughs in this movie, ever. Its cold, its miserable, and its so, so slow.
There's no action in this movie, and the parts where the pace of the movie actually step up, just disolves back into the crawling pace of the movie very predictably. All the characters in the movie are forgettable, and play minor parts in this movie, including the lead, who is unlikeable, and just unimaginative in creation as a character.
The ending of the movie of what this movie is actually all about, summarises why this whole movie is so gloomy and depressing. The small moments of fantasy in this film just aren't enough to move this film along. Sure there are giants in it, but they're just a fraction of the entire viewing time of this movie, so the movie is 99% about a very depressing subject the movie hints at throughout, and 1% about giants. And that's just not enough in a movie titled "I Kill Giants".