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I See You (2019)
Entertaining Enough - But the Entire Movie Literally Repeats Itself
If you enjoy thrillers, this is certainly one to add to your list. While it's far from being a perfect movie, it's entertaining, has a good story, and is plenty suspenseful.
The story does repeat itself though, albeit through a different set of characters point-of-view, halfway through the film. While this second pass explains the odd things that were happening the first time the story is told, it does start to feel a bit long and repetitive (even though the audience is getting knew information from the different point-of-view).
Overall, though, there's plenty of twists that you'll never see coming (mixed in with a few giant cliches that you knew were bound to happen from the beginning). If you're a fan of thrillers, this is a decent enough flick to give it a watch.
The Boat (2018)
Not as Bad as Everyone Says But Major Problems
There's not much plot to this film. A man (the only character) discovers an abandoned cabin cruiser. He boards the ship, gets locked in the bathroom, and the ship (which is either on autopilot or possessed by ghosts) takes him out to sea. The next hour and a half surprisingly gets filled nicely as he has several close brushes with death trying to find his way back to land.
A few major problems I have with this film (#spoilers ahead): First, you mean to tell me he couldn't break through the bathroom door? Sorry, I wasn't buying it. A grown man should easily have been able to get that door open in less than a minute. We were talking life or death stakes, and he didn't even attempt to pry/jimmy the latch? He didn't try stomping down on the handle to break it off? He didn't try attacking the hinges? You get the picture.
Second, sure the compass was broke, but you mean to tell me this sailor couldn't figure out which way land was by looking at the sun? I'm in no way a seaman, but if I were off the coast, I'd use the ol' "sun rises in the east and sets in the West" saying to at least point the ship in the right direction. He couldn't have been that far off the coast.
Third, a cargo ship collides with an abandoned ghost boat and nobody calls that in?
Fourth, how the heck does he only discover that room with the knife and other supplies at the very end? Going through every room and drawer would have probably been one of the first things I did after getting stranded on that ship. He had days of doing nothing and he had an entire area of that really small ship he never thought to look through? Really? There could have been a satellite phone in their the entire time.
Overall though, it was enjoyable enough. I'd actually recommend.