searchanddestroy-1 Review of Machine

Machine (2024– )

Ken Loach and Gustave de Kervern meet KILL BILL and EQUALIZER

[24 April 2024]

So strange this series, so weird, some kind of mix up of social drama, political - social- plot, actionner, comedy, drama - after all Joey starr's character dies in the middle of the show - with many interesting point; I don't mean Karl Marx's influence, not my stuff - but many many unlikely sequences, such as this one, when our female lead - the 23456th female lead since NIKITA, action female lead I mean - attacks the semi trailer truck. Or this strange supporting characters study between the young hotel maid and the South Korean businessman; what's the meaning to show those two people having a sex relation? Very strange sequence for a social political drama which could be called as communist message. Very strange, this mix-up, as we can see in so many South Korean or Japanese action dramas. The two things that I could not bear however, were the fact that this lady is UNBEATABLE, and those f...comedy lines - WHY WHY WHY ? - but the overall stuff is pleasant, a good time waster that I would have more imagined on Netflix - such as the FURIES trash - and certainly not on ARTE. I particularely liked the Joey Starr's character,, very interesting ambivalent character, considering the fact that he abandoned his daughter. Very unusual, far far from expected clichés. The relation between him and the lead female character - Machine - is also moving. Very unsual. I love that this kind of little touch that most audiences ignore....