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Eric (2024)
How did this get made???
I started watching it for Cumberbatch and kept expecting the episodes to get better, but it was all downhill from the start. Practically nothing works: writing, acting, camera, sets. The storyline is messed up, trying to tell too many different things, doing it really badly, succeeding with none. Acting is one-note, stilted, and it is obvious that production hired most actors for scale, so only a couple of faces are recognizable. I have to wonder how they got Cumberbatch to sign on to do this silly mish-mash; must have been some paycheck, but he should fire his agent for persuading him to do this.
Nouveaux riches (2023)
Incredible
I have not seen such a crazy movie in a really long time. The energy and the pacing is unbelievable, hectic, fight scenes like in a Jackie Chan movie, but more fun. The actors are great, characters somewhat reminiscent of Guy Ritchie's, but with a definite French flair. You might have to slow it down or rewatch some of the scenes, because it is easy to miss stuff in such a fast-paced film. It is hard not to be a fan of those two loveable hustlers and not to root for them to find whatever they're looking for - money, love, a change of fortune and a way out of the everyday fight to scrape together an existence....
Fair Play (2023)
Not a single likeable character
A large gallery of unlikeable characters, starting with the main female role....she is smart, but apparently not smart enough to keep her big mouth shut and not shoot herself in the foot. No heroes here, just people with whom a regular person would never wanna have anything to do. That said, in the sea of mediocrity on Netflix, it will serve as a sleeping aid at the end of a long day. That is the problem with today's creativity - not enough of it to justify the existence of all channels one can use to watch movies and tv - the same amount of creativity is now spread over countless streaming services and other ways to watch - thin.
1923 (2022)
More soap from TS
Once you run out of original ideas, you end up with not enough content to fill the time. They must have paid Mirren and Ford a ton of money to persuade them to film this fluff. The storyline about those two in Africa, then Europe, is just cringe-worthy, like the acting - similar to 1883. The story of the Native American girl showed promise, then devolved into a soap opera, like the rest of the series, only bloodier. It is really hard to keep watching a story without a single likeable character, not the least because none of the characters gets enough screen time to get fleshed out. Of course, for some of them, like the blond British girl, that is a blessing, rather than a curse. It seems Sheridan has a thing for such creatures...
1883: 1883 (2021)
Laughable
Sheridan has obviously run out of ideas and patience, and this prequel is unconvincing. That girl is just a caricature, accent and all. 1883 had a chance to be something else than Yellowstone, which has turned into a soap opera, but failed miserably. If anything, it is like a cartoon. The only mystery here is why Sam Elliot, Billy Bob, Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita, signed on to be a part o it. There are too many silly plot twists to list, but what the girl character does in the span of what - a couple of months - is just laughable - falls in love with a surfer cowboy and then with a Native? That shrieking in the native language is as ridiculous as her fake accent. In a matter of days or weeks she has identified with the culture and learned the language??? I guess Sheridan realized what mistake he made casting her, so he smartly killed her off, although many episodes too late..