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IF (2024)
Disconnected sentimentality
Unlike the posters, this movie lacks fun. With a back story that took 20 minutes to establish (I almost gave up), and even then it is confusing and vague. There is no foreshadowing or counterposition set up in the beginning for the change that occurs if you get to the midway mark. There's no set up for what is to happen. At the halfway mark there is scene that could have closed the film. To me it was overly sentimental and disjointed.
It could have been added to so many fun young adult classics that have the main character find light in a bleak situation (Big Fish, Batteries not included, Peter Pan, Goonies) But it can't and doesn't.
Very disappointing, but some of you may disagree.
Colonials (2023)
cliche: {n} betrays a lack of original thought.
It misses on all accounts. The result is a more than disappointing story suited better to a high-school production.
The direction is static and the acting wooden (granted they didn't have a good script to work with) giving the impression you are watching a lego movie. Below par overacting and underwhelming story-line with a under average 'green screen' poorly masked by overpowering color-correction, that is distracting as it cuts from green light to pink to purple and orange.
Disappointing to say the least. There's a reason George Lucas was able to create a classic on self-funded budget - he had good bones to flesh out the characters. I was not even half way and was rooting for any of them.
The Gray Man (2022)
Scant Script written on Swiss Cheese = A Holy Mess!
An overly predictable plot full of more holes than the bullets fired in the entire movie! Awful schlock that tries to look slick using a drone camera and eye candy actors but obviously thinks that bullets only hit 'B' role actors and miraculously miss the headliners. I can't believe i even wasted my time skipping through most of it.
The Ipcress File (2022)
Impeccable update to a classic Cold War Thriller
Of course I remember the book and Mr Caine in the original 1965 movie. I was gripped - loved the pace, atmosphere and gorgeous staging the dragged you down into a 'rabbit hole' of intrigue. ITV should be proud. You don't need violence, sex and exploding cars when you have a great story, three lead actors who don't miss a beat and outstanding production. Bravo!
Loin du périph (2022)
A bright delight
Lovable but miscast in 'Lupin', it always enjoyable to watch Omar Sy. The photography, with the bright iconic lighting and costuming, was artistic and refreshing. It's nice to watch comedies that don't get sidetracked with sentimentality and have a forced moral tale haplessly stuck at the end. It's fun and enjoyable and evident that they actors enjoyed the making of this one too.
Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
I Disagree .. a Gem
It is far from 'generic'. With a 'who's-who' of great British voice talent this movie out-performs the Disney mill of mediocre animation. Animation that is top class, natural and fluid. It's got 'double-cross and triple-cross ... and is needlessly complicated'. Not really, but with a brilliant soundtrack that sucks you in and enhances every movement and a breath of fresh air from obvious, 'spoon-feed' american storytelling.
Enjoyable for adults and children.
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
- stuck in the past (prequals)
Unoriginal Yawnfeast. Right from the beginning every characters' only reason for dialogue is to explain how they fit to the prequels. Long winded unnatural dialogue wastes the first hour and 45 minutes. Random introduction of characters with no development. Large pot holes to fill for only 2 returning main characters. We watched with friends, 3 out of 4 fell asleep. There was potential in the new world they created but everything was stuck in the past (prequels).
Bridgerton (2020)
Outstanding Production, Awful execution
Brilliant staging and production value but with 'story' that take 4 episodes to establish more than one plot-line and a complete season where the costume department was told to give every character away, there was no intrigue or mystery. That's right - the lead characters are eye-candy while everyone is gaudily portrait as mean-spirited with gross overstated costumes. The only thing we learn from this alternative period shlock is that unlikeable characters have no dress sense. A complete yawnfest. Clearly executed in the wrong hands. In the hands of the someone like the ITV or BBC this would have been talked about for years.