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The Kitchen (2023)
What do we call this? because its not a movie
I can't understand how this ever got made and released.
Was looking forward to it having seen the trailer. But it's deceptive, don't waste 2 of your life.
There is no script, there is no plot, even the editors seem to have taken some time off. I can't even say it's a series of events , very loosely linked, because that would be generous. It's a series of situations, non with any head nor tail, no dilemma or conclusion, just situations around a plot that could have been made into a 10 minute short story instead.
I actually gave up about 60% of the way through, but then returned a few days later to at least finish it , i regret it.
Leave the World Behind (2023)
tense, well made , but strange decisions
I disagree with a lot of the reviews here , at just over 2 hours, i was intrigued and attentive throughout. I never once felt it had overrun its welcome, on the contrary i would have been happy with another 30 minutes.
The dialogue and acting was excellent. The camera work clever, albeit , seeming unnecessarily so.
The movie had a tense, slow building , sense of impending doom that plays out pitch perfect. However , as the movie draws to a conclusion, we enter arrive at the most controversial part and spoiler for that review to follow:
what the hell was that ending, it just felt abrupt. A cop out, the director deciding he couldn't give a satisfying enough ending so he would give us this instead. It ruined would otherwise was shaping to be a brilliant movie. Now i'm not even sure whether i should recommend it to anyone else or if they will hate me for wasting thier 2 hours.
Rabbit Hole (2023)
Refreshing yet familiar
After watching years of 24, I finally became bored of the formula towards the end. Twists and turns, that you can read and predict, because by their very nature they were just bluffs that became double bluffs , that became triple bluffs. That good guy, who you think is bad, but is proven to be good, only for a last minute twist back to actually being bad, it became tedious.
For that reason, when I saw keifer Sutherland , advertised in something called Rabbit hole, knowing very little about it, i ignored it , I was going down that one again.
However , having run out of content, I thought I would give the pilot a try. I was immediately hooked on the concept. Then what began to play out, for a moment I thought , hey I know exactly where this is going. But , it surprised me, in so many good ways.
It's very rare, that a twisty, suspenseful , drama can do that so well these days, but rabbit hole managed to break away from cliche playbooks and continuously surprise episode after episode, right up to the finale.
Huge credit to the editing and way it was put together, I enjoyed moments of familiarity with the best bits of early 24 and times where I could see it was trying to break Predictable narratives, by constantly "changing the narrative"
Yellowstone: Horses in Heaven (2022)
Getting tired of Beth
Well, I'm just so fed up with Beth and her lack of character development over the 5 seasons we've had. I'm actively rooting for Jamie at this point, I wish he ran her over. Given how much he's been threatened , how much he's been put through, his actions just don't make sense for a 45 year old successful lawyer, who would be far more ruthless and definitive with his response.
The writers need to evolve with this ever reoccurring cycle as it's getting repetitive really quickly as well as unrealistic personalities. Season 5 has felt like an extended s4 so far with a lot of filler for good measure.
Kuttey (2023)
Terrible attempt at a stylised gangster flick
There are so many things about this film that were irritating , it's rare that I turn a movie off after watching for an hour.
From the dialogue that a teen who just learnt out to swear would write to the lack of any sense in in many of the scenes. Gun fights that are stupid and unbelievable, attempts to rob a van which are so amateur that you have to question who let this director make the movie.
Special effects are clearly a 29.99 assets pack you can buy online and do yourself and the sound effect is possible the worst I've seen in a 'proffesional' movie. Using silienced pistol sound effectfor a revolver.
All of these add up to a really irritating film that you should stay away from.
Doctor G (2022)
Not his best work
I am a fan of Ayushmann's work, I will watch anything he is in. However, I feel this was a let down. Maybe a result of the strange character he plays, but he didn't seem particularly interested and nonchalant through the entire movie.
This film unfortunately doesn't really have much of a story arc, it just is and by the end, it just is. The main character is annoying in his mannerisms and uninteresting on screen. The dialogue is weak, the comedy is tepid, it is more of a drama then it appears. But even then there is not a whole lot of drama.
The few background songs through the movie were also terrible!
Nope (2022)
Utterly disappointing. Best scene from film not relevant
Whilst I usually love Jordon Peele and look on positively everything he does, this film is possibly the worst I've seen for a long while. All viewers at the time the movie ended , got up looked at each other then exclaimed "what on earth was that" as we commiserated our lost time.
Running time is too long by at least 30 minutes, if not more. The film is boring and uninteresting, always hinting it may turn into something more but never does.
Furthermore, what is possibly the most intense and interesting scene from the film (the opening sequence with Gordy the monkey, later played in full) fails to develop into anything , has no relevance or explanation to the main story.
Very disappointing.
Stranger Things: Chapter Four: Dear Billy (2022)
Brilliant episode
Absolutely brilliant episode , what an ending and great soundtrack choices throughout. The smile hasn't left our faces. The longer episodes and stronger tilt to horror has really been great this season.
Bel-Air (2022)
Distinctly forgettable
Being a big will smith fan I really wanted to enjoy this, I was onboard with the new take on it , I was onboard with the casting. But 4 episodes in and I just feel like, take out the bel air and this is not a very good show. The dialogue is poor and uninteresting. Conversations between Carlton and will often just don't come across as believable. The plot itself is uninteresting. Had this of been any other show I would give up about now, illl continue and give it a chance only because it's bel air.
Succession (2018)
A brilliant premise ruined by unreal characters
I blitzed through season 1 in a few days, but season 2 and now 3 have slowly etched away at that initial love for this series.
It could be best described as turning into Empire. The show I thought I started watching & I was really enjoying, was the one about a power struggle between a son wanting to do good and a father who will stop at nothing to keep his power. That show will never come to a conclusion, it will never be satisfied and it was a mere sub plot to what this really is. This is all about a dysfunctional family trying to 1 up each other, rotating between who's the flavour of the week , with unrealistic character decisions and motivations , silly plot devices and zero satisfaction moments, flip flopping from 1 side to the other just to create the narrative of the week. They have turned every character into different degrees of rotten, but if it suits the story next week, a plot device will make them the angle for that episode.
See You Yesterday (2019)
Waste of time you'll never get back
The best moment in the movie comes around 3 minutes in when we get a special guest appearance , but it's all downhill from there with no reward for sticking it out though. Characters are shallow, their decisions and actions make no sense, you could poke holes in the plot as big as craters. Time travel movies are always going to be something where you have to just let some of the plot holes go to enjoy it , the problem here was not the plot or the concept , it was simply that the characters were so unbelievable on their actions that everything else falls apart.