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Blacklight (2022)
Lazy, unoriginal
This is a bad movie, one you've seen dozens of times before. It's ridiculous predictable.
The "action" scenes are laughable and unmotivated. Watching Liam Neeson run was really sad, reminded me of when I had gout.
The CGI was pretty bad, and really stuck out. And it used a silly quick-zoom-in-and-out effect that made no sense.
Give this a miss, I'm being very charitable and giving it 3/10.
Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy (2019)
Ignores the science while pushing propaganda
This is a bad documentary. It attempts to push a specifically US-style form of fundamentalism, by trying to prove that Moses wrote the first five books of the bible.
It interviews evangelicals at southern US seminaries and pretends they have the same level of expertise as actual doctors, professors, and researchers at places like Israeli universities (who all disagree with the agenda pushed by the documentary maker).
It completely ignores the evidence and research demonstrating that the Torah was written by at least four different authors. It ignores how contradictory passages are interspersed with the different authors even using different names for god, describing contradictory events. It instead concludes that Moses was able to write the Torah because ancient Israelites invented the alphabet via divine intervention.
The documentary intentionally asks the wrong questions, so it can evade actual research and evidence. For example, it spends about half the run time trying to prove the ancient Israelis invented the alphabet. It fails at this, but apparently it felt the need to go this route because the makers thought it proves the books were written by Moses. To it's credit (and why I gave it a 2 instead of a 1), it actually shows real experts clearly stating the hypothesis is nonsense. Unfortunately, it doesn't provide them much opportunity to explain all the reasons it's nonsense.
This is not a documentary, it's US-specific religious propaganda. Only watch this if you're an anthropologist studying US culture.
Web Warriors (2008)
Hype, Half-Truths, and Misinformation
I'm genuinely surprised by how melodramatic and poorly made this documentary is. It's basically the modern version of "Fear the Reds Under the Bed!" It assumes it's audience has little to no technical knowledge, and then feeds them misinformation and half-truths.
It constantly misuses terms such as "virus" and "hacker", claims DDoS attacks are so powerful they send "other hackers running scared", and claims Yahoo is the most power and important website on the 'net (laughable even for 2008). It plays dramatic music while it's histrionic voice-over speaks of menacing "hackers" that can access any information from any computer on Earth.
This documentary interviews a cracker (which of course they call a "hacker") who claims that within a week he can shut down every power-station in the US as well as completely shutting down the US military. He does this with a straight face.
I'd group this documentary with other farcical nonsense like "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". It's rubbish, don't waste your time.