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Bob Marley: One Love (2024)
Entertaining and thought provoking
The music and the performances of the main characters are very good. Whilst it was entertaining and thought provoking I would have liked a bit more of an introduction to the members of the wailers. They were very much in the background and I we didn't really get to see Bob's relationship with the band members.
The interactions with his wife, manager and record producer felt quite awkward (maybe they were?)
Whilst it was quite formulaic (musical biopics like Ray and Respect have a very similar feel) I thoroughly enjoyed the film and I was surprised at how quickly we arrived at the final scenes,
The King's Man (2021)
A great prequel
A well told story with enough dialogue to explain the complex plot but sufficient action to hold my attention. I particularly enjoyed the choreography of the fight scene with Rasputin. It has enough of the style of the previous two films to make it a Kingsmen although I do miss the mischievous twinkle of Eggsy.
The cast, acting and staging of the scenes is of the highest order it's obvious that this film had a huge budget that was well spent.
It also serves to remind us of the futility of war where so many innocent men die because of petty disputes or the delusional ideas of so called leaders.
Copshop (2021)
Who's the hero?...you decide.
An entertaining action thriller with a few twists and turns along the way.
It has the usual cops would never act like that scenes but if you ignore those then you'll have a fun hour and forty five minutes.
There are plenty of nods to classic mayhem in a police station movies like assault on Precinct 13, Rambo First Blood and Terminator.
It also draws on other movies like silence of the lambs during the hunting each other in the darkened labyrinth of the mens locker room scene.
Definitely worth a watch.
A Very British Christmas (2019)
Mark Killeen or Dick Van Dyke?
A very mediocre Christmas movie.
The storyline, dialogue and acting give Christmas movies a bad name and that's not saying much. However, the male lead Mark Killeen is the worst, the character is supposed to be from Yorkshire but his accent is somewhere between London and Sydney. Dick van Dyke did a better accent in Mary Poppins!
Dashing Home for Christmas (2020)
More like a slow meander home for Christmas
A cliché ridden formulaic Christmas movie where the main character have to get home to family despite every obstacle thrown in their path.
The romance that develops along the way between the two leads seems highly unlikely as they are two very different personalities. Although the guy is the more likeable of the two I never felt invested in the characters. Watch if you've got nothing better to do on a damp cold December afternoon.