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Father Christmas Is Back (2021)
The film equivalent of syrup
Where to begin with this clichéd , hackneyed steaming pile of horse manure ?
It's a kind of formulaic approach to a Christmas movie. Throw a beautiful house, disfunctional family, pretty market town, christmas traditions and a family secret together and hope for the best.
The acting, especially from Hurley is absolutely dreadful, who looks pretty tough on film. One of the kids, bizarrely, has a Northern accent and the only really half decent performance was from Caroline Quentin.
It may do well because it ticks all the Christmas boxes but it is really a waste of almost two hours.
Yankee (2019)
Clichéd and poor quality
At first the show had some promise but it nosedives very quickly. The writing is really poor and very lazy with numerous plot holes, continuity errors and forced events. Where does Malcolm get all his money when he has only just set out but is sending hundreds of thousands to his wife? Even after a few episodes he is regarded as the kingpin by the US ICE agents and even cartel members which is absolutely ludicrous. There is one scene where he is surrounded by kids and they are talking about waging a war on a rival group, it was a truly surreal moment. Of course, he is a decent human being so that viewers will root for him but he is just the telenovela style, good looking, honest, well meaning guy who happens to work his way up to become a major drug lord just by having an idea and meeting a few bosses.
This is a really irritating tactic the narco miniseries take nowadays, by having the lead be a drug lord yet have this compassionate and moralistic side. It is done to death in Queen of the South.
Yankee also suffers from terrible acting such as the lead actor, the ICE agents, the bikers, the cartel heads, the cartoonist sciracio etc. It is also overly long at 25 episodes and becomes more difficult to watch as the writing becomes lazier and the premise even more far fetched.
The lead actor is, in real life, on a manslaughter charge in Miami, so hopefully this may prevent another season of this rubbish.