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Ruthless (2023)
Why did they lose Ruth?
Actually the movie is so bad and predictable that you need a strong will to watch it until the end. Strong will I have not, so at some point I started to wonder whether a story about a guy who misses a certain Ruth wouldn't have been much better. Ruth could be his ex-lover, or his old car (a VW Beetle for instance), or his pet grey african parrot (very intelligent, can talk a lot).
What about a high-school English teacher named Ruth who introduced him to poetry? Or to sex? (Too banal, I know.) Searching for Ruth, dreaming of Ruth, cursing Ruth. Discovering she's a serial killer. Replacing her with Helen.
Unfortunately "Ruthless" is not about Ruth. It's about breaking arms repeatedly, and fingers too. The end.
UFO (2018)
Gillian must have lost big at poker
This so-called movie was written by gluing together quotes and data from various graveyards just like Frankenstein did with his creature. But the poor monster was actually interesting!
We get lectured on the Kardashev-type civilizations, on the fine structure constant, on Edison's true nature, on SETI, on the Arecibo signal, and on many other things that Discovery and National Geographic use to pour onto our heads a bunch of times each year.
Meanwhile the characters are vacuous and the acting amateurish. Which fits together brilliantly with a script lacking any plot or surprise. In fact nothing happens, except for the predictable attempt of the FBI agents in their huge black SUVs to keep the public ignorant of the aliens' existence.
What's Gillian Anderson doing in this tasteless SF soup populated by hopelessly unknown faces? Sure, she starred in "X Files", but that can't be the real reason. More likely she had to pay some big gambling debt. Urgently.
Rabbit Hole (2023)
Thank God for the Press
Pentagon papers, Panama Papers, Wikileaks, Snowden, the Irak war, Chelsea Manning, Russiagate political hoax, Iran-contras, etc., etc... When did the press REALLY make a difference? Except for Watergate (half a century ago) no revelation, no scandal has actually mattered politicaly. Yes, NSA's spying on everybody has been disclosed, so what? The Irak WMD lie has been exposed, so what? Epstein's connections to the richest and the most powerful are common knowledge, so what?
The American film industry continues to manufacture ad nauseam "happy ends with the press", where everything is made right by the providential defender of freedom and democracy - the brave journalist. But in time this has become just as fantastic as superheroes and zombies and female warriors (one of which makes a ridiculous appearance in the final minutes of the last episode).
"Three days of the Condor" still had some degree of credibility. But this was in 1975...
Lockdown (2022)
When highschool kids take up filmmaking
Perfectly stupid. The script is childish, dialogues are apparently written by a non native english speaker who believes a generous use of the f-word adds athenticity. And what is Paré doing among these obviously amateur actors? He might not be a star but still, he is (or was) a professional. Old age is unforgiving, huh?