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Silo (2023)
Starts intersesting, slides downhill from there!
Why am I, after 3 episodes, apparently watching yet another ten-a-penny cop show?
Like so many series, the central premise has faded into the background where the essential mystery of the Silo, the why, what, how etc is ignored.
Surely the book delved into the fundamental questions and history of the Silo and it's generations of occupants? Or maybe not, in which case why make this show anyway?
The story therefore suffers a real dearth of imagination. If I wanted to watch a cop show there are many to choose from, too many in fact as the "downhill-after-a-good-start" phenomenon is so very common and overused!
Somewhere Boy (2022)
Thoroughly implausible
There is no way that a boy growing to manhood could possibly be kept in a house as depicted here, unless actually imprisoned. He would yearn to look around outside, no matter what his father told him about there being nobody else out there and the monsters! He would surely find ways whilst his father was frequently absent - "hunting said monsters" - of getting outside and covering a good bit of ground in a foray of discovery. He could not possibly then have failed to see other buildings, vehicles and people and understood that the father was lying. This would lead to much further conflict between the two as he realised the enormity of the lies.
Ultimately with the foundational premise of the entire story discredited it all becomes merely a silly fantasy and as such quite worthless.
Getaway (2013)
Such a pity to see great actors reduced to involving themselves in this trash!
Silly car chase movie, barely a plot to speak of, and utterly unrealistic in term of the damage that inevitably occurs to vehicles - even an "armored" Mustang - when ramming at speed into other vehicles. Or maybe that Mustang has 4 inch ballistic armor plate like a battle-tank, but then I reckon it would be rather slower, weighing many tons and thus hardly able to run away from the cop cars!
I guess Voigt and Hawke, who gave their expected competent performances, needed a quick cash injection! Could there be any other motivation to sully their reputations with this nonsense!
Just proves the old adage "You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear!"