Reviews

Ensemble case, strong start, had real promise.

Then the plot got going, terrible character development, almost zero character motivation and just not very interesting.

The bad guys, were bad guys, and, like they were bad, like because they were rich? And powerful? And, like nasty to women? So that, like, makes them bad guys? And, like, they faked their own death to keep giving money to charity? WHO WROTE THIS VALLEY GIRL TIER RUBBISH?

Completely unclear what Samuel Jackson's character arc was meant to be, other than, whoop, plot twist, he wasn't dead, so he can rescue Maggie Qs character at the most obvious moment, and they can team up with their biker friends to get into the compound, blah, blah, blah...

Michael Keaton and Maggie Qs "sexual tension" was adolescent at best, and the big reveal about "the protege's" backstory was laughably nonsensical.

Not sure what this film was going for? Maybe a tax break for the investors?

Dumb, even for an action movie. The action scenes were OK, but not enough to carry the movie.

I found stuff do around the house rather than try and bear through this in one sitting.

This film is cursed.

Don't do it to yourself.

Black and white torture porn base on a Manhattan sensationalist's novel.

You'd have a more productive time throwing live small animals into a pit of irritable, hungry bears than watch this.

Given the amount of animal torture scenes in "The Painted Bird", I'd put my money on that bear pit scenario being the Director's next film?

Uncomfortable viewing, it's too long, and the violence and never-ending cruelty is so over-emphasised that it borders on cartoonish.

I was almost expecting "and then everybody clapped..." as a finale.

Disappointing, and can't ever un-see this film, or get the time I spent watching it back.

For such incendiary implications this documentary is unbelievably dull.

It was like pulling my teeth out trying to get through it. Depressing.

All I seemed to know for sure is the very harsh details about monkey organ harvesting in the Congo for vaccine research.

Wouldn't really expect any doctors who' might have caused the AIDS epidemic to own up to it, so shouldn't really be surprised by the incomplete conclusions.

Yet again, Africa seems to have been the hushed up testing ground for the horrific underbelly of the modern world. I wonder what China's CCP has got planned for the continent in its 21st century as global hegemon?

Here's a clue, look at what larks were had by all and sundry in 2020...

So skewed it's funny. Every talking head is a Clinton or ex CIA acolyte, ignores what Biden and his son were up to cutting deals in Ukraine, ignores the Active Measures the US engaged in to destablize Ukraine.

Ignores the deals the Clintons made with the Russians to help the oligarchs divide up the state apparatus in the 90s. Also ignores all of the data uncovered by the Russia hoax investigation that clearly shows Hillary Clintons campaign was funded up to the eyeballs by Russian money.

Remember how Trump impeachment just didn't stick?

Because of flimsy hit pieces like this film.

I could go on and on, but we live in opposite land, where people can say crazy things about countries most people don't bother to check up on, factor in a language barrier, and you could say anything about Russia and Western media consumers would believe it.

You should be more worried about what China or Israel are doing geopolitically using active measures right now.

Every 10 out of 10 review saying "full of facts, do your own research" clearly don't know how to do a google search outside of their own filtered bias bubble.

The Clinton line about "funding white supremacists" is just laughable.

If any campaign knew about criminality and rigging elections it was certainly the Clinton campaign.

Pretty pathetic propaganda piece and certainly not an objective or serious documentary in the slightest.

Hipster nonsense about two bar owners having relationship troubles, then there's some weird subplot about an alien or something visiting the dude every night while his girlfriend is away.

bearded doughboy drinks lots of whisky out of jars and is driven insane by poor special effects.

The odd interestingly framed shot, but largely mumblecore and a waste of time.

Was this film an elaborate troll, from the neckbeard irony reddit tier bros?

It was pretty interesting until the big plot reveal at the end, the mixed-race serial killer is going back in time to kill the grandparents of white nationalists.

So it's the silly thought experiment from amateur ethics discussions "if you could go back in time and kill Hitler, would you?"

She reveals this in some dubious feelings laden speech to her grandfather, the cop who's been chasing her every time she appears each nine years since 1988.

She kills the all-white victims by injecting a pathogen which explodes their brains!

Good God, this was laughably bad.

It's worth watching alone for the painfully bad narrative carpet bombing of woke left-wing politics, and how to ruin a good mystery.

Wow...

I really tried with this, but could not get on with it. It was so ham-fistedly feminist "woke" that it was unbearable and very cringey.

Matthias Schoenaerts delivers a pathos driven performance in this wonderfully composed film.

The genuine emotional connection conveyed between him and the Mustang, as his character, Roman, deals with his own anger is poignant, and hints at a genuine connection between actor and animal. The horse only allows him to connect with it once Roman has completely expended his rage, revealing the hurt behind the crime of passion he was incarcerated for. A powerful scene, for all the right reasons.

As a symbol of spiritual freedom I don't think there is a better totem than a horse gazing in on a prisoner in his cell through a barbed wire fence.

The Wild Horse program, despite its implications in the rounding up of wild animals to domesticate them to save them, seems like a very successful program in the rehabilitation of violent men who are capable of such redemption.

I wanted to like this, being a fan of Jodorowsky's psycho-magical artistry, particularly his graphic novel works, such as "The Incal", and his writings on the Tarot.

I'm sure I could spend hours trying to un-pick the layers of very subjective to the film-maker motif in the film, but I'm not the Director, so it ultimately makes little sense to me, and proved frustrating to try and engage with.

Equally frustrating was the nudity and unpleasantly related graphic behaviours, as well as the Mother's delivery of all her lines in operatic singing, which was profoundly jarring.

The high definition digital format doesn't suit Jodorowsky's surrealist imagery as well as the film stock used for his earlier, more mystical works, such as "The Holy Mountain".

I lost interest about three quarters of the way through, but I stuck it out to the end, remembering the promise from other viewers that's it's final shots were worth getting to; sadly they were not.