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Boku no Hîrô Akademia za Mûbî Wârudo Hîrôzu Misshon (2021)
No Stakes, No Sense, just Cartoon Drawings
High budget animation of fight scenes, but no real sense to it. Lots of villains show up with no real explanation of their powers, and when the heroes primary abilities dont work against them, they dont come up with new clevre strategies, or methods of using their powers, they just use MORE of the same powers, until they somehow win.
How do you defeat someone who reflects your punches back at you? Punch harder. How do you defeat someone immune to fire? Use more fire.
A whole host of heroes are involved in this story, but nothing happens to any of them, and we'll never hear about this story ever again. A sort of non-canon, no stakes, series of DBZ action sequences, with extremely typical results.
The story also as typical involves one new normal person we will never hear from again, and he doesnt even really get much of a story. He exists, down on his luck, meets try hard Midoriya, decides to try hard.
Also, because they need these fight scenes to be ridiculous and resolve quickly, you can count any number of onscreen deaths caused by "heroes" and the heroes themselves suffer any number of injuries that would result in death, while fighting alone hundreds of miles away in an abandoned facility controlled entirely by enemies who want them dead. There's no way any of them survived. But no stakes!
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021)
Terrible
What is this movie? The main character isnt Geralt. It's Tony Stark. All over just a weird mess of a thing. They should have just not named it Witcher and cut out the oils and it would have been fine.
Ci sha xiao shuo jia (2021)
Fantastic Piece
Two stories intertwined, one in modern day, one in an ancient fantasy world. A father loses his daughter, a brother loses his sister, each embarks on a journey that risks their life, and well being.
Each story is a song with a different beat, two different songs, two different quests, two different perils, but as the characters move closer to one another, the beats overlap. Are there really two stories, or can what one does in this world affect the next?
The CGI looked great. Compelling narratives. It's 2 hours long, so we took a break at the halfway point, and came back to it, but neither of us was bored or distracted or on our phones for half of it. For once, we were both sitting watching every detail of this beauty. Best movie I've seen in 2021.
Breach (2020)
Trying to figure out why they made this film
I wonder if they didnt crap this stinker out during 2020, or maybe it was in the can in 2019 and it just wasnt worth releasing until a viral pandemic trapped everyone inside.
Your typical affair. The ship is overrun by aliens, and if we dont do something soon, everyone will die. Fortunately for the costume and makeup team, the aliens are zombies, and the zombies are people who ate too much black licorice.
They did a little better on the ship interior. Except it's pretty clear they only made one room, and one L-shaped hallway. Towards the climax, we see the zombie aliens attain their final form, and this must be the entire special effects budget, because by the end of the film, we've got some kind of stop motion 1933-King Kong lookin garbage, englarged with MS-Paint, and greenscreened into the background under a layer of dense fog.
True to form, our heroes never seem to discover any way to kill the zombliens. There's several obvious options they ignore in favor of shooting nerf guns at them (props guy couldn't afford some black spray paint?). Which has the same effect as always when you shoot a zombie in the torso with so many BB-gun rounds.
The things is a mess from start to finish, and I'm just shaking my head, trying to find out how the director or lead is related to Bruce Willis that he volunteered to be in this.