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The Amaranth (2018)
Meh, but not b
This film is just ok but it will not make you wish for your time back, which a lot of offers on streaming will make you do ! The story is very predictable but passable. At least it is set in not too far fetched reality vs some sci fi future. I found the acting good all around except for the acting of the two "harpy" type country club women, too over the top obnoxious. I haven't seen the female lead since she was in the HBO series "Big Love", so that was a nice surprise. I didn't care for the lighting or coloring throughout, maybe it lent to the "sinister" ambiance, but it was just too muddy. . If its a rainy cold day, and you have nothing else to watch, not a complete waste of your time.
Pain Hustlers (2023)
Late to the party and bad.
This is Hollywood's 3rd attempt at telling the big pharma/opioid crisis story. Each telling gets progressively worse. The first, Dopesick , was really good and took the time to tell a well rounded, well done story. Next was Painkiller, which is ok, but no Dopesick. And the third, and probably final, being this turkey.
Emily Blunt is always good, but her costumes were terrible-so 1980s, just not on point or decade . Catherine O'Hara is miscast as the trashy mom, she just doesn't work- this isn't supposed to be a comedy. The other characters were over accented, poorly costumed and really just cartoons. At some points this did seem to be a comedy. The last 1/4 of this film is so rushed.
It just didn't work and was a waste of time. I wonder what went wrong.
Hijack (2023)
Started off great then deteriorated
The first couple of episodes were really interesting, then it just got ludicrous and actually dumb. The big, motive reveal is just stupid and must have been written by a child, certainly not someone who knows how financial markets work. As each minute ticks by more and more "not how it works" moments pile up.
I don't want to write spoilers, but it seriously is so unrealistic to the point of annoyance. Such as, what happened to the Asian male flight attendant? He was there and then he wasn't. The dead bodies? They also just disappeared. So annoying to invest all that time and it ended up sucking. Who is writing this dreck ?