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Nowhere (2023)
Repetitive, Predictable, Boring
Nowhere comes from nowhere and goes nowhere.
If you have seen adrift or for that matter any other 1st stuck survival movie you have seen them all and Nowhere is no different.
The intention is there to highlight the dangers and suffering that people who take up that journey are exposed to, how families get torn apart, how many start and not many finish, but at no point is this movie believable.
The movie tries to build suspense but followed the standard play book of drama-relive-drama-reliever-hallucination drama-relieve-drama-relieve ... in such a predictable way that it just looks and feels fake from the beginning till the end of the movie and makes it boring to a point where you can fast forward whole sections without really missing anything in the movie it self.
Special Ops: Lioness (2023)
Been there, done that ... 10 years to late.
With a stellar cast I went into this show with high expectations but then ... what a disappointment.
Unfortunately the Lioness arrives with a story and format that has been chewed over and over and the stereotypical characters.
The beaten up character with the traumatic childhood who finds it self to be perfect to be part of a very hyped up spy world because of course, only the renegade maverick outcast can do this. We have our team leader that has a borderline dis functional family because of all the work, we have our borderline red neck action team members and so on and on and on and on.
We find our selfs back in the eh Arab world, like Homeland and alike hadn't beaten that subject to tiredness, with a story where every next scene is totally predicable; main character goes out for a run and gets kidnapped ... of course it's the bad good guys putting her through the grind. Characters go do a mission to take someone and of course the other random bad guys show up as well and after all these bad guys cars being taken out in a very random way ... out of no where an other one shows up just to be shot out on the highway right away.
I just can't stop thinking "did someone write this 15 years ago, put it in their drawer and then all of the sudden while spring cleaning ran into it again?
No Time to Die (2021)
No time to ... Bond
James Bond has always had the advantage that most of its films are a standalone. "No time to Die" goes against that, clearly trying to bring this chapter of Bond to a full closure, having given it a beginning with "Casino Royale".
The idea in it self wasn't bad but unfortunately this movie just stretched out into areas and plot lines that made little to no sense, where tedious to listen through and slowed down the movie unnecessarily.
Overall the movie lacked a proper pase, it lacked more of a defining Bond moment and at least me left me with a taste of "That was it, that's all" and "They could have cut this movie by 30min and still gotten the same out put" in my mouth.
Devotion (2022)
Way overrated
I have no idea how this movie has gotten such a high score so far, 6.8 at the time of this review.
This is one of those movies that I was really looking forward to, that really got me excited when I saw the review score and which eventually let me deeply down.
Without going to deep into the very details of the story it self, here are the mayor problems.
The Story: I have no idea who these days approves the stories that get free lighted for production but this is one that shouldn't have. The overall story is flat, slow, throws in the ocasional action scene which are an intend of rip off from top gun and flight of the intruder at best, painted over with cheese and compelty unnecessary scenes that try to create a moment, to make us care but who just don't deliver.
The Characters: Unidimensional is what probably describes them best, with zero development throughout the movie at best and cheese or even unnecessary at worst; it's like you don't really care what happens to them.
The CGI: Its 2023, 2023!!! And yet here we are ... again ... with CGI that looks straight out from 2005. I mean the some CGI si so bad that had it been handed in by a first year student they would have failed that class.
I know the movie is based on true events so there isn't all the freedom to do what they wanted; but even within the restrains they could have taken better decisions, deepen the story of the characters, just make the movie look a bit better, but no ...
Im Westen nichts Neues (2022)
Not 100% faithful to the book but that doesn't really matter; probably the best anti war oboe to date.
I have reed the book and I have watched all thee interpretations.
Many complain that this movie is not as faithful as the previous adaptations; to those people: you are not getting the point.
Probably the best contemporary true anti war movie to date, showing one of the most brutal conflicts in human history very much as it probably was, very much like what war is; brutal, blunt, inhuman, senseless and where every survivor is probably still a loser.
This is a movie that should be should be mandatory to watch in high schools around the world, so that future generations can at least try to grasp the senselessness of and understand that it always is only a very last resource.
Interceptor (2022)
This is the reason why Netflix is losing money
If someone was to approach Netflix today with this script, that director and those actors, Netflix would laugh and shut the door in their face.
Unfortunately when they got approached Netflix still thought they were riding the high and this this movie got green lid for production.
Good to watch as background noice at best.
Company of Heroes (2013)
I though I was back in 1985
I haven't seen a "war" movie this back since the 1980's.
Not sure if the director went for retro or just for bad movie making.
2 stars only because I have seen worse movies.
Svart krabba (2022)
Disappointing
Was really looking forward to this movie but again the trailers promised more than was delivered.
In essence the movie had a lot of potential trial, with very good plot lines and where to go but unfortunately the movie needed up going no where and became completely senseless.
Deep Water (2022)
Well that was a waste
I don't know who though this was a good idea to make, but it just wasn't.
Stacked with a good cast this movie failed to deliver anything it intended to.
It failed to deliver the real emotional torment in the characters or to explore it, it failed to create suspense around the murders and IF the husband did it or not, if he would be capable or not, if failed to create suspense and intrigue if the wife was or wasn't really unfaithful.
So much potential, so much opportunity waisted.
3 stars because at least the acting and cinematography was decent.
Clickbait (2021)
Started strong and eventually turned MEH!
Overall the story is ok.
Over the first couple of episodes you are left with quite a good cliffhangers that make you just to want to keep watching. All good and entertaining till the end, when the makers tried to pull a 180 degree plot twist that just landed them in the sand; it get like they had one person in mind to be the actual person and in a last minute change of mind they choose someone else and cramped all that unit 1.5 episodes as to give it a closure.
The Tomorrow War (2021)
Good idea but ... what happens to the plot?
Got hooked because of the overall
Idea of a future war that needs our support, but then ... it hat happened to the plot or the lack of it for the better.
So much in the movie makes no sense within the story that it's really difficult to believe or keep the interest up; like humanity is about to lose the future war and only about 500k humans are still a live but yet Miami looks like it was just attacked and humanity still can deploy F-22's; not to mention the whole time paradox of ""why not prepare humanity in the past to fight the aliens better off on the future?", if they are already sending people to the future that are supposed to die in the next 30 years; and this is only some of the lighter stuff.
Greenland (2020)
Yeah it was ... ok
The idea is simple, but of Deep Impact 2020 edition.
Family gets selected to be saved, family doesn't get on the plane, because of course if they did the movie would have been over, family is broken apart, family gets reunited, family makes it to safety.
Nothing more, nothing less.
On the side the world keeps getting bombarded with pieces of an incoming comet/meteorite/outer solar asteroid on an ongoing base ... because somehow the earth doesn't seem to move out of this badasses way but it keeps tracking and hitting Earth.
The Midnight Sky (2020)
Disappointment
Was looking forward to this movie, seemed promising with a good line up.
But then ... well, yet an other apocalyptic humanity ends story that drags on for ever without ever getting anywhere not explaining or really setting up the story or what's going on.
Because of this lack of a backstory it is hard to evaluate how serious the situation actually is and get more emotionally involved rather than just be confused.
Mortal Engines (2018)
So so story but amazing overall idea
The story is so so and has nothing really suppressing, but the steampunk world they created and everything that goes with it is just friking cool and alone worth watching the movie.
The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)
Just as bad as you would imagine it is.
Take a world self help best selling book about making your dreams come true, create a cheese movie around it with no real depth and this movie is the result.
Just like that, nothing more nothing less.
Inheritance (2020)
Ahhhhhh welllll
Good idea of a movie.
Unfortunately it is rather badly cast, the main character as GA is just completely unbelievable and the story obvious as a 5 year olds night time book.
Waste of time watching it.
Rebecca (2020)
What a missed opportunity!
The story had so much opportunity, unfortunately it got completely wasted.
A complete miscast of the lead roles and a complete miss of building ANY believable emotional connection between the characters, made this movie fee like riding on a dirt road with the main characters being a couple of stones that bang Mosley abasing each other in every other pothole.
There is SO many things they could have done different, but certainly the best would have been to make this a mini series instead of a movie; give the character and story time to breath and sit in.
Sandy Wexler (2017)
No Adam Sandlers movie should be longer than 92min
You know how every now and then you start watching a movie that you feel is going to be fun ... and then you just spend the whole
Movie waiting for that moment to arrive just for it to never happen?
Well this movie is one of those.
Not only is the movie completely flat and Adam Sandler a compete miscast for the role he is representing, but with over 120min of his crunchy fake voice it is a burden to take even for the most enthusiastic viewers; I mean for that matter no Adam
Sandlers movie should ever be more than 92min!
With a HUGE repertoire of very well known actors appearing in the movie, mostly on the comedy side, it makes you wonder how it was ever green light or got financed; maybe because it's just one BIG 120min Hollywood inside joke?
Robin Hood (2018)
The idea was not that bad, but ...
The idea of making a modern looking medieval Robin Hood isn't that bad, but eventually it felt just to out of place and an incredibly weak plot didn't help it neither.
Enola Holmes (2020)
Well achieved
Well achieved movie that developed within the Homes universe without Sherlock being the main focus.
This shows that it is possible, instead of changing the gender of the characters, to create new stories with new heroes in established universes.
Incoming (2018)
Well that's 1 1/2h that I will never get back ...
Honestly, how do scripts like this get investment to move to production?!?!
Predictable plot, flat characters, student level directing and acting, middle school amateur level CGI.
Left Behind (2014)
???
Like ... what did Vic Armstrong smoke when directing this movie?
Was this a result of a lost bet?
Was he trying to make a homage to bad 70's movies, in script, props and directing?
So confused.
Greyhound (2020)
Not your average war movie.
This is not your average war movies, nor does this movie show you a single man becoming the hero of the moment.
This movie depicts naval warfare during WW2 as it was.
It conveys the stress of the situation, how dull, repetitive and never ending things might seem, how eventually there are no heroes but just men, and even when you win you lose.
It's a powerful movie that some people will have a hard time following because it doesn't tune the procedures down, which might seem confusing but actually is the beauty of a well oiled machine.
365 dni (2020)
Like 50 Shades of Grey but ... worse
Imagine you saw 50 Shades of Grey and though "WOW, I am going to make my own versio ... but darker ... and with more nudity ... oh and also a fraction of the budged and crappy writers and I also won't have money for a good director; well this is the result.
A blunt dull movie with a genre that has been milked till can't get no more.
2036 Origin Unknown (2018)
Nice try but unfortunately not even close enough.
The idea was good, with some retro style space visuals like it was the 70s or 80s, to create a space mystery movie.
Unfortunately it failed mostly because the dialogue and the speed of the movie is just incredibly boring.