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Rebel Moon - Chapter One: Chalice of Blood (2023)
It's certainly no 300...
I really wanted to like this film, really, really wanted to like it. In the end, however, I just couldn't.
I feel the film has too much going on for a first instalment, it's crossed way too many planets and introduced way too many characters at such a high level. It really could have done with a lot more character development on each of the key rebels. The Charlie Hunam double cross was so incredibly predictable as well.
Also, the admiral surviving the fight at the end is ludicrous and it's just a blatant attempt to rip of Anakin Skywalker surviving the fight with Obi-Wan in Star Wars.
You'd also think Djimon Hounsou being found in a colosseum as a gladiator would be a homage to his artful performance in Gladiator but given everything else that has been copied from other films, it comes off as another cheap rip off.
I also thought the slow motion scenes were really overused - they worked exceptionally well in 300 but I don't think it works the same in gun fights as swords/hand-to-hand.
Overall, I'd watch it if you have a couple of hours to spare but it's a really mediocre watch!
Leave the World Behind (2023)
The ending doesn't make sense
I'll start by saying overall, I really enjoyed the movie - it's an interesting take on an apocalyptic film as most are weather based or alien invasions nowadays.
I thought the cast were all played very well although the constant friction between the two female leads seemed a bit exaggerated through out. Mahershala Ali was incredible in every scene, I love him as an actor.
I kind of understood the ending of the film, highlighting in the modern world, we're all perfectly content if we have our tv shows and movies on our own personal screens to keep us entertained regardless of what's going on in the world. I do think it's taken it to the extreme that Rose would just abandon her family over it, in the circumstances, I don't think that would happen.
However, I could accept that's what they were going for, but they went on and one about how the animals were trying to tell them something, it's mentioned multiple throughout the film, yet it's never established what? How would the animals know about a cyber attack to destabilise the government.
It feels like they've ended the film prematurely to keep the run time down as it's always at 142 mins but the ending really lets the whole film down.
The Weekend Away (2022)
Average film with massive plot holes
Honestly, I enjoyed the film - right up until the last 20/30 minutes but then the storyline and logic just goes completely out the window. Once they believe it's the police officer responsible for her friends murder, it says they have CCTV from the hotel of the altercation and her friend bein g dropped off and then other footage from boardwalk of the police officer dumping the body.
Later on, it turns out it's the husband that's the killer, but he appeared right after the police officer dropped her at the hotel but they didn't see him on the CCTV footage, despite it being in the exact same spot the camera was covering? Then they convenient ignore the CCTV of the cop dumping the body and don't reference it and we're all now expected to believe it was the husband that murdered her friend? It's just laughably poor writing.
Then it turns out her friend felt the affair with the husband was a fling and a mistake yet the texts from her friends phone that she seen earlier in the film demanded that the husband leave her for the friend.
I'm amazed this wasn't picked up at any point in the writing or the filming - if you can switch off and ignore bad logic and poor writing then you might enjoy it, but that really annoyed me as they could at least make the story remotely believable.
Eradication (2022)
So boring
This film is so incredibly slow paced. It takes an hour for anything interesting to happen. Even then, none of it makes logical sense, just so poorly written, I'm not expecting a masterpiece of cinema but it has a really bad storyline with no real direction or explanation. He refuses to listen to his wife who is apparently a scientist - thinking he knows better. I'm not going to spoil if for anyone who makes the poor life choice to actually put themselves through watching this. It's an hour and a half of my life that I'll never get back.
The acting is poor and the storyline and character development is shaky at best, you're genuinely best not wasting your time.
I'd have turned it off after less than an hour but given the length of the film and the sunken cost of my time.
The ending is atrocious as well. There's a weird obsession with drones in the film too.
Outside the Wire (2021)
Such a poor film
There's just so many plot holes throughout the film:
- He's a highly intelligent cyborg who is playing off three different groups but he never thinks to change vehicles when he finally goes rogue.
- Mackie (Leo) has ample opportunities to kill Idris (Harp) including at the end when he's about to complete his plan and he just lets him get up shoot him multiple times and then call in an air strike?
- Idris (Harp has no idea where the nuclear silos are but is able to tell the drone pilot which road to look on and which direction he's travelling?
- Idris (Harp) is a horrendous soldier who can't deal with gun shots at any point and then at the end when going after Mackie (Leo) he's checking corners like a member of Bravo Six.
- They fire a drone inside a tiny missile silo and it doesn't cause the activated nuclear missile to explode.
- The concept of the Gumps was pretty cool and the action with Mackie (Leo) was kinda fun, other than that there's nothing endearing about this film.
That's just the ones I thought of from the top of my head. Netflix film making is pretty awful for the money they must throw at it to get some of the actors.