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Merci la vie (1991)
Confused mess
A confused and rambling mess. It has a few funny moments, and the whole are they in a film, are they shooting a film, is it a flashback structure could have been very intresting, but it's too confused and confusing, and with too many unnecessary and unpleasant scenes of young women being punched and kicked on the floor for no good reason, for it to be worth the investment to try to follow it properly.
London Has Fallen (2016)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
My god is this a bad movie. A really, really bad movie. And I watch (and enjoy for the most part) a lot of bad movies, but this is by far the worst and most stupid one I've had the misfortune to turn on for many years.
I really don't care about the merits or otherwise of the CGI or the action sequences, though a bit of mindless action and adventure is exactly what I was after when I decided to watch it. And I'm all for suspension of disbelief. But the premise of the plot? The ENTIRE London police force taken over by terrorists? One or two would be bad enough, and provide ample enough plot material for any halfway decent action film, but this was just so laughably stupid I could barely stay to watch it to the end (and that's saying something).
The ease or difficulty of corrupting a cop in the UK (or Germany or France, or pretty much any country in fact) is probably very similar to the ease of corrupting one in the USA. So, for the sequel, how about having ALL of the police (and most of the CIA and FBI and Secret Service) in New York, say, turn into traitors and suddenly try to blow up the city, or kill the President or something?
The only way I can make sense of this film this is to imagine that it's really an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"-type science fiction flick, and I misread the genre from the trailers.
If you approach it in that frame of mind and try to imagine how long it is before the President's bodyguard is infected and mutates into an alien you'll have a lot more fun, I promise you!