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Oro (2017)
Has potential, but lame
The story has a plot that could had worked better if from the start had been well researched. It's supposedly a historic/period film, and it's full of clichés and logical errors, not to say complete lack of historic accuracy. Indians speak Spanish like caricatures, men curse on God all the time, and the story too soon turns into a race between a band of greedy, immoral gold seekers and a band of similar men under the orders of the new Viceroy (who suddenly wants the all the gold for himself - and not for the King of Spain), to find the Golden City, aka, El Dorado.
This is a clumsy film written through an outdated and shameful colonial gaze. Despite some weak sparks here and there, the overall acting is pretty bad.
Myûjiamu (2016)
Detective Dumb
The whole film is ruined by Sawamura, the clumsiest detective of Japan (and probably of the whole world). Sawamura has more lives than a cat and is a sort of McGyver of dumbest, as his role in the movie is enraging viewers with his repeated mistakes. For 2 hours, Sawamura moves around like a drunkard. What a terrible lead character design, ruined a whole movie. Sawamura is the reason this movie sucks.
Succession (2018)
Great story!
This is one of the most exciting series HBO has made for a while. Who wouldn't like to see the inside workings of a rich family in each member's individual struggle for power? Family boss Logan Roy is even scary for viewers, an outstanding performance indeed by Brian Cox. Characters have many dimensions, indeed, to the point that sometimes you like them, sometimes you don't. The storyline centers around the struggle of the family patriarch to keep full control of his own empire while relatives and even his own workers and associates conspire to remove him, but proving all these attempts futile as he always manages to cling to power (of course, everybody fears old Roy and his intimidating character!). The story has many twists and offers a full insight of the intimacies of a rich family and how a large business conglomerate works at its highest level. It's a political drama, a family thriller. Very Macchiavellic. Nothing as has ever been done.