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One Shot (2021)
200 Soldiers, 1 Truck...
Just because a movie is shot in 1 take definitely doesn't make it special anymore and this isn't special. With 15 minutes to go in the movie I really was rooting for everyone to get at least one bullet. A rating of 7.5 at the time of viewing I thought I'd give it a go and now wish I hadn't.
Well armed soldiers piled out of a TARDIS like truck for what seemed like 20 minutes, like scarfs up a clowns sleeve they just kept coming out.
Gun magazines with seemingly endless bullets to impregnable buildings with fire escapes dragged this sea-sickness giving camera work on for far too long.
There seems a lot of love for the main actor but there wasn't much acting for him to do in this film. I'll try another movie of his but won't be revisiting this tripe during my lifetime.
The Curse (2022)
Disappointing King Gary...
Another so called British comedy where the comedy is so well hidden you have to check the internet to confirm it was a comedy. Loved 'King Gary' so when Tom Davis was pushing this I was quite looking forward to it. There seems to be a worrying trend nowadays that having inanely stupid characters makes for quality comedy. This joins painfully poor comedies like 'People Just Do Nothing' and 'Stath Lets Flats' so will probably end up winning a BAFTA. Perhaps there really are pathetically weak people like Albert down South but I doubt it. As the softies would say 'What a melt'.
Shadow in the Cloud (2020)
Not many positives other than CGM
Started watching this knowing very little about the movie other than the lead was Chloe Grace Moretz. The first 40 minutes were ok with a little suspense but it was clear, due to absence of budget, this film was only going in one direction... Down.
It was like two people had written the film, the first half by a misandrist and second half by Del and Rodney Trotter after a few whiskeys.
After 55 minutes I thought it couldn't get more stupid but it did. At 56:50 it reached a level of stupidity I didn't think possible, it was beginning to break cinematic stupidity barriers.
CGM is totally wasted on this otherwise Z-lister movie and she needs to vet her scripts a little more. Powerful, strong women characters are to be praised but they need to be backed up a half decent movie.
Vault (2019)
Like the Vault I was left empty...
The only reason I got to the end of this movie was the great cast. A very slow, dull, drama-less movie with an extremely predictable plot twist ! Not sure how a Mafia based movie could be turned into such a bland series of events.
Save Yourselves! (2020)
Don't Pay Your Hard Earned...
How on earth is this classified as a comedy !!!
Humourless throughout and I just wanted to slap the pathetically weak male character.
Hope this isn't the future direction for US comedy films... Liberal PC trash.
The Curse of Oak Island (2014)
Not for those lacking imagination...
Absolute utter nonsense but a compulsive watch... Love it.
PEN15 (2019)
How did this get commissioned !!!
When did the rules of comedy change ? Only watched the first episode but how can a program be called a comedy if there is no actual humour . Also why pick 2 women who look closer to 40 than 12, is that supposed to be the well hidden humour ?
Death in Paradise: The Blood Red Sea (2016)
No actual physical evidence !!!
Ok the drunk Captain couldn't have done it but there was no physical evidence that the culprits did, just a theory 😡
Boyz in the Wood (2019)
Bad... Sooooooo Bad !!!
This movie starts out badly and goes downhill quickly... Humourless throughout.
The Promotion (2008)
Terrible...
There most be a lot of comedy on the cutting room floor because there ain't none in this painfully dull comedy.
People Just Do Nothing (2014)
Series 4... Never should have got past Episode 1 !!!
4 series of this bilge is testament to the current Comdey vacuum at the BBC... Characters depicting work-shy council estate scum fails on all comedic levels... How the BBC ever thought this Dregs of Society mockumentary would appeal to anybody other than the great-unwashed is beyond belief.
Mad Max (1979)
I should have left it another 35 years !!!
If the public didn't know Director George Miller was gay when this movie first aired then 30 minutes in it must have been apparently clear. His depiction of "Bad-Ass Bikers" must have read "Beastly Men" in his screenplay, alongside "Butch Leather Clad Good-Guys". I'll hold my hands up and say I've just watched this 35 years after its release and there are shockingly few positives to this movie. An ardent fan of Mel Gibson I couldn't but laugh at his acting and the truly atrocious American dubbing. Sheila Florence (a.k.a Lizzie Birdsworth, Prisoner: Cell Block H) gives the best performance but even she can't make Mel being shot with a hand gun from half a mile away believable. With lines like "Hay fella, you're a Turkey, know that" and the use on World War 1 Broomhandle Mauser pistols, this film fails on every level...