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Reviews
Next Level Chef (2022)
Next level disaster. A show with an identity crisis.
Next level chef is a bizarre show with a massive identity crisis. It does not know what it wants to be. Is it a cooking competition or Is it a game show? The truth is that is that it's neither. The game is much to unfairly balanced to be an actual cooking competition like master chef and it's premise takes itself way to seriously to be a game show like cutthroat kitchen.
The show itself is just weird to watch. It tries and fails with the whole "mentor" angle as we never actually see any of the mentors actually helping their team in any way. The incredibly unfair premise of the competition is constantly undercut by the narrative of the editing, painting it as if skill can outweigh the odds placed on the chefs in the bottom kitchen when it's never the case (so far at least.)
If you want a game show cooking competition, watch cutthroat kitchen. If you want a cooking competition, watch MasterChef or top chef. Let next level chef descend into irrelevancy where is belongs.
Awake (2021)
Awake is, Ironically, a hard movie not to sleep through
Awake is an awful film. A film with a stupid premise that is exists to cash in on the trend of movies where the protagonists must fight basic human functions. I blame A quiet place for this trend, and I thought birdbox would be the worst, I was wrong.
Awakes' premise fails right from the get go. While stores about people fighting insomnia can be good. Awake just doesn't do anything. Like, at all. None of the characters do anything to try and figure out why this is happening or really anything to fight it. Even the scientists later in the movie are not really doing anything. The film just moves on from on plot point to another. Prisoners let out, well we can't let that take up screen time better move on. Teaching the child who can sleep to survive when we all die in 3 days? Nope, move on.
This gets down the the biggest problem of the film though, the characters are just so stupid. Even taking into the account that they are all sleep deprived, they don't do anything logical in a survival situation. They just do whatever the plot needs to move on.
I could go on and on about characters, but lets talk about that ending. So, we're all awake because of the sun and an electromagnetic burst. Yeah, no. That's stupid. As a concept it is just so boring. Like, there's nothing to overcome here. Nothing challenging to overcome and grow/learn as characters. This movie is literally about nothing. Except a mother never sleeps I guess? The whole thing of dying to restart your sleep cycle stuff is just such a cop out. It's the easiest way to just wave away the problem. And leads back to the fact that the scientists just have no point in the plot if two kids figure this out.
I digress. Awake is boring, just use the time to sleep.