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Free Guy (2021)
Not funny, not exciting, not worth watching.
This film is a series of well acted and usually beautifully photographed scenes which, when added together, amount to almost two hours of precisely nothing.
There is not a bad performance in the whole thing. Everyone is doing their best. I commend them all for their efforts because it must have been as obvious to them as it will be to anyone that watches it that this film is a waste of time.
Clichés have been shamelessly borrowed from a number of moderately good films and mixed together in the hope that something better will emerge. The characters are bland nonentities that occasionally say something witty, but are otherwise forgettable. I can see that it might be possible to feel sympathy for some of them, but any thoughts of rooting for them are swamped by the overwhelming hope that the end of this tedious, bloated nonsense of a film is not too far away.
I have to confess that this is not a review of the whole film because I fell asleep for about 15 minutes somewhere after the half way point. I did wake up in time to see the big action climax and the resolution of the story. Being awake while this movie is showing is not recommended.
Super Troopers (2001)
Nicely photographed, well lit.
It is hard to understand why anyone thought that making this movie would be worthwhile.
Most failed comedies at least give you an indication as to why it might have been funny if anyone had remembered to include any jokes.
There's nothing in this 1h 40m of tedium that gives the slightest clue as to why this film was made. It's not funny, and the storyline is ludicrous and pathetically thin.
Credit must be given to the actors who stick it out until the end. They must have known that almost everything about this film is entirely worthless.
Let's hope they were reasonably paid for the portion of their lives that were lost in the production of this utterly pointless drivel,
otherwise their time, as well as those of us who stuck with it all the way, will have been needlessly wasted.
Avenue 5 (2020)
What was this supposed to be?
Beautiful colours in the photography. The sets look great. An ensemble of very talented actors.
Unfortunately, it's as about as funny as a bowel cancer diagnosis.
Back of the Net (2019)
Dreadful formulaic rubbish
I can't understand why Bishop, Logan and Crouch - all talented, would want to be associated with such a dog's vomit programme. Money?
Clearly, the producers are trying to jump on the Soccer AM bandwagon, which in its time made football and football fandom cool. Sadly, no one told them that Soccer AM stopped being fresh, trendy and amusing several years ago. All they've done is make three genuinely interesting and witty people look like (poorly) trained gibbons by asking them to regurgitate something that we've all had more than enough of already.
Horrific, dreadful television.