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Love, Death & Robots: In Vaulted Halls Entombed (2022)
A satisfying taste of eldritch horror
Don't let another ensemble US marine cast cause your eyes to glaze over early.
What starts as a routine hostage extraction in the Afghan mountains takes an eldritch turn as the squad finds themselves venturing deeper under the mountains.
With slick visuals, great voice acting, and an ending that will scratch an itch for fans of season one's Beyond the Aquila Rift, "In Vaulted Halls Entombed" is an engaging taste of eldritch horror.
Love, Death & Robots: Kill Team Kill (2022)
Mayhem, music, and wisecracks but it falls short
Subtlety goes out the window with this exercise in animated violence.
Our familar trope of US marines encountering the unexpected takes a turn for the absurd in the form of a mechatronic grizzly.
The mayhem, music, and wise cracks are all cranked to 11/10 which will be enough to please some viewers.
But, the episode ends up feeling merely like an exercise in action animation which would be better suited as an ingredient for a larger series.
On its own, it falls a little short without delivering high calibre visuals or an engaging short story.
Love, Death & Robots: Bad Travelling (2022)
Mutiny, morals, and a monsterous appetite.
Mutiny and morals are put to the test when an unwelcome passenger from the depths boards a fishing vessel with an insatiable appetite.
The beautiful CGI style animation doesn't shy away from presenting some gruesome scenes in all their gory glory, and the atmosphere will keep viewers locked to the screen as the stakes continue to rise throughout this episode.
Episode 2 will tick most of the right boxes for fans of the series and comes as a welcome switch of pace after the somewhat lukewarm opening episode.
Love, Death & Robots: Night of the Mini Dead (2022)
Quirky, clever, and a terrific change of pace
Another standout episode in a triumphant return for season 3 of LDaR.
A hilarious change of pace from the jaw dropping animation, non stop violence, and cosmic horror that usually keeps viewers of the series engaged. This tilt+shift stop-motion rendition of a familiar apocalyptic trope will keep you on the edge of your seat trying to catch all the quirky mayhem.
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
A predictable waste of an opportunity
Revisiting the matrix was always going to be a risk 20 years later. The costumes and hairstyles of 1999 which identified the "unplugged" as the coolest, calmest, and most collected of stylish badasses have aged like... well, a millennial that still wears his matrix-inspired trenchcoat to the club on Saturday night.
They touched on some inception-esque philosophy in the first act which was almost interesting, but ultimately a confusing exposition dump. Something the Wachowskis and Nolan are both known for.
There was plenty of self awareness and very on-the-nose writing in the first act which prompted a few wry chuckles, but meta humor is not a substitute for a quality story.
The story oozes contrivance for the sake of having a story - one is reminded of another IP with "resurrection" in the title here - and while this could be forgiven if we were at least treated to some new and ambitious action scenes, this is sadly not the case.
The first movie revolutionised the action genre. The second movie had its work cut out for it but made a fair attempt at upping the ante with the mansion battle and infamous highway chase, but this movie feels like a massive step backwards in the realm of action choreography.
Sluggish, uninspiring melees which frequently feel like they were filmed in a mosh pit. Confusing camera cuts and messy angles, slow-mo and bullet time used to death alongside the deep bass audio cue which we have seen and heard everywhere for the past two decades.
The least I hoped for going into this was an attempt to introduce some new and exciting action scene ideas, but there was nary a lifted brow in the house throughout the film. Neo employed a new and underwhelming ability, and then proceeded to spam it for 30 minutes straight reducing the phenomenal cosmic power of being The One to nothing more than mashing the X button repeatedly.
There was a scene in the final act that almost prompted a "whoa" from me, until I remembered an almost verbatim scene in 2008s The Happening.
The wardrobes and hairstyles were all hillariously distracting, with Agent Smith being the only exception in his new Harvey Spectre inspired skin.
Very impressed that Keanau appears to have shaved for the role. He looked like John Wick for 90% of the film, though.
It could be argued that the film is well aware of all of my criticisms and even addresses these challenges explicitly quite early on, but the fact still stands that I walked out of the theatre underwhelmed.
All around a bit of a wasted opportunity here. I'm convinced the only way to get a win out of the IP now, is to bring on a passionate action choreographer, slap an R16 rating on it and focus on hyper-violent, ultra-creative action scenes. Beats letting all of the shoe-horned scenes with swords and other feudal knick-nacks go to waste.