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Oppenheimer (2023)
Simply- great movie
It is a long movie. Yet, at no moment it felt like it is just uselessly padding its runtime by adding unnecessary details, subplots, etc. Great visual effects, yet the amount of explosions and/ or CGI was kept to minimum, on the characters, instead of "nukes go boom".
And when it finally came to the test of the "Trinity"- that tension, the music just building up, and then- the absolute silence.... Just stunning scene. And then, when the sound finally came, half of the audience just jumped up in their seats.
Maybe a little contradiction with what I wrote at the beginning of this review, but the last part after the big explosion (basically, both of the hearings) could have been a bit shorter. But this in no way ruined the movie.
The actor ensemble- great. For some of the characters- would've preferred a better introduction. For example, only by checking imdb, if found out that Jack Quaid was portraying Richard Feynman. Maybe I missed that one sentence where his name was mentioned, but during the movie it felt like he is playing some "random scientist".
Either way, movie is definitely worth your money and worth seeing.
The Good Place: Whenever You're Ready (2020)
One of the best finales I've seen
This was one of the best finales I've seen and here are a couple of reasons why I think that:
1) No plot twists, no cliffhangers. The series and the story ended. I am really glad everything was not ruined by some dumb plot twist like "Surprise! Last three seasons were just even more elaborate plan and you're still in bad place. Enjoy your memory being wiped again!" or generic "Ok, we're sending you back to Earth, try to be good people now." Authors had a vision, a plan, a story, and that is what we saw.
2) Although all the characters have become inseparable, their farewell was individual so we could see their personal growth, not just "We came together, we're going through the final door together." We had the chance to say "Goodbye!" to each of them in their own way.
3) It was really emotional. I must admit that I spent about 2 hours to watch this 1 hour episode, because at some moments I was crying so hard, that I just had to stop the show and take some pause to collect myself. Btw, I'm 30 y/o male. But it wasn't just sad. There were jokes, there was some comfort, beauty and.... calm in all that. It was just perfect finale.
Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance (2015)
Just... Bad..
While the original movie was in the realm of "It is so bad, it is good", this movie is just... bad in a sad way.
The dialogues are insufferable, the level of acting is somewhere between "high school play" and "amateur pr0n". If you enjoyed the original movie, don't waste your time on this one.
Criminal Minds: Truth or Dare (2019)
Season finale?
Only today I found out that this was the season finale, because I couldn't find the new episode. It felt like the least "finale" episode of all the season finales.
Yeah, Rossi got married and everything, but nothing happened to the unsub from the "Chameleon" episode. This story is left "hanging in the air".
And even more- the unsub and his motivation in this episode felt absolutely stupid. I mean- guy kills people in accident because of "Dare", gets jail time, but thinks that everyone around him deserves punishment, and he is innocent because someone Dared him. There are stupid people, for sure, but they wouldn't act like this.
Instead of normal 20+ episodes season, they've split it into two seasons (15 + 10 episodes). Feels kinda lazy.