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Willow (2022)
Oh, boy
No matter what you know about the original film or what you've seen, this is plain lousy. It's never enough to say 'we'll, I'm a fan of the original so it's good to see it again.' Really? First three episodes of this schlock are tolerable but it plummets quickly and becomes an eye-rolling, embarrassing display of poor cosplay.
The writing and acting are subpar at best and little in this one remains interesting. The only thing worth watching is the end credits. Wheel of Time, another disappointment, is far superior to this. Aye aye aye. What a colossal disaster this is. Put your time and passive energy into watching something... anything else.
The Captive (2014)
Riveting, Underrated Film Flown Under the Radar
Though not a superb film, this is a good, engaging, worthwhile thriller. Fine tuning is needed with script editing and scene work in parts, but most of what's captured on screen really works. There's a deft directorial hand at play with an interesting storyline that doesn't pander or insult the audience's intelligence. Solid (not superb) performances (though exceptional marks and praise go to Kevin Durand and Alexia Fast) render us a film worth sinking our teeth into, and we can take off a mere point or two for any confusion a suspenseful plot twist of a film fails to unravel at story's end. There's no excuse for the 36 Metascore on this one, so don't buy into it. We've seen cinematic drivel reach the 60's and 70's for no humanly legitimate reason.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
Prepare to yawn -- Painfully anemic and watery
Surprisingly watery and actionless, this film was a complete bore. The pacing was painfully anemic. The script is so mired and bogged down with cheesy, weepy, whiny dialogue, that only the brilliant Phillip Seymour Hoffman can transcend the mediocre script and deliver an interesting performance. Hollywood's darling in Jennifer Lawrence brings another predictable ho hum performance - - a much overrated actor, in my 'unpopular' opinion. I had absolutely no problem with the splitting of the Hobbit film into three parts as many filmgoers decried and whined. There was a boat load of action and thrills in each of those three films. Here, there is none; therefore, the producers are knowingly and wilfully prolonging the agony filmgoers will surely endure. Prepare to yawn... a lot. This two hours of drivel and melodrama will annoy and depress you.
Putty Hill (2010)
Drivel 2.0
If you accumulate all prior reviews that have rated this film 4 out of 10 stars or less, then you'll gather enough eyewitness testimony from those of us who are now miserable, poor saps who were so misfortunate to have been subjected to this train wreck of a film -- a very slow-moving train wreck. Sound editing and general editing are performed with such cluelessness that you feel confident this film can serve as a guide on how not to make a film. I like slow-paced films when they have vision and substance and POV, but when there's no cement or glue to the story...to keep the narrative and plot moving somewhere, then you have problems. Lots of problems. Acting is fine. Writing and direction is beyond problematic.