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LaRoy, Texas (2023)
Good start. Simply dreadful, frustrating ending
The dreadful ending more than outweighs the interesting beginning and middle of the storyline. There is no learning arc to the main character's development over the film: he's as dumb and clueless at the end as at the beginning - despite the entire journey the story has taken him on. And the fact that one of the main villains of the piece - his awful, lying, sociopathic wife - gets to walk away pretty much unscathed...? And then for his 'partner' to stop and give her a lift...? I mean, what the...? Well, it had my entire family cursing at the screen! This ending ruins what might have been a decent film.
Certainly, the ending has ensured that no one watching this movie when I saw it will ever view it again!
Nice idea for a film ruined by a seriously misjudged ending. One to avoid, I'm afraid.
Red Election (2021)
Starts well, looks interesting, but lead is too incredibly incompetent to watch
I waded through this up to the end of episode 4, then just had to give up. The lead is so INCREDIBLY incompetent it is simply unbelievable that she could ever be a real security services officer.
A fairly slight woman who INSISTS on confronting a Russian assassin ALONE, only to then, when she catches up with him, find - whoops! - she doesn't have enough hands to take him into custody. Not that he is anything other that a bio-terrorist - so no great need for caution, then!
Simply impossible to watch this childishly written, woodenly acted, cliché-ridden nonsense without experiencing such exasperation at the sheer, cretinous INCOMPETENCE of what is laughably portrayed as British security services (half a dozen people operating out of an HQ that looks like an abandoned secondary school!) that I had to stop watching for the sake of my mental wellbeing.
Seldom has an interesting idea been so heroically badly written, acted and directed. What an astonishingly cack-handed show - a real missed opportunity.
AVOID!!