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Ambulance (2022)
Hilariously bad
The actors all did a great job. Everything else was awful, but the longer it went on the more I found myself laughing at how stupid it was, so for that it gets a 3/10.
I should have known after the reference to "The Rock" that it was a Michael Bay movie. The Rock is a classic, but this will never be. It doesn't even have enough charm to become a quotable meme movie.
Bay's time is over, other talent should be getting funding and resources.
And because I still need to write 117 more characters, I'll just repeat that considering the hilariously bad script the actors all did a decent enough job.
Knock at the Cabin (2023)
Is that, it?
The actors all did a decent job, especially Bautista and the young adopted daughter. Can't really fault any of them. I was just waiting for it to become clever or interesting and it never came. It even seemed like there was potential for some zinger to hit in the lengthy part after the climax, but it didn't come.
You only get to be mysterious and interesting if it builds to something, but this never did. It was engaging but felt like it was all for nothing. There's no clever point being made. Nothing original or profound. Maybe the twist is that there isn't one, but then that just feels cheap.
I understand it's an adaption from a book that ends more ambiguously, but the more recent movie adaptation of The Mist managed to alter an ambiguous ending into something interesting in a way even the original author was pleased with. This didn't manage it.
Bautista did an excellent job, and it's worth ending on that.