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Prison Break (2005)
Suspend Disbelief
When I saw that this mini series was gathering an 8.5 rating I thought, "Wow, this must be an outstanding show." However, after watching the first season I have concluded the writers know absolutely nothing about prison operations and even less about the protocols observed on death row. You need to be willing to suspend disbelief to some degree to make it through most theatrical presentations but Prison Break stretches the limits of this to the breaking point (pun intended). A death row convict with a scheduled execution date is allowed to roam the prisons grounds, mingle with other prisoners, stay unguarded in the infirmary, etc, etc. The guards are clueless about what the inmates are up to, not noticing blatant regulation violations. It is all too much to take seriously but this show is not suppose to be a comedy. It is, however, a joke.
Gran Turismo (2023)
Movie is a Giant Commercial
This movie is a giant commercial for Play Station and Nissan with a little.....very little, plot tossed in. You can see the plot twist coming clearer than the corners on the race track and the characters are as one dimensional as a hub cap.
Orlando Bloom tries his best to be convincing but sadly falls short as the Nissan PR brainchild while the rest of the cast is made up by cardboard cutouts .
I would guess people giving the movie high marks are solid gamers that love the dark basement moments alone with their monitors. However, anyone seeking a truly thrilling movie experience will find more excitement on guessing what is stuck to the bottom of their theater seat.
The Girl from Plainville (2022)
Lots of boring fill
If this project had to be produced it should have been no more than a 60-90 minute movie. However, the script was pumped full of boring filler to come up with an 8 part mini series. The acting was unexceptional. A 5 rating was probably generous.
Inventing Anna (2022)
Interesting story plus a lot of anti-Trump bias
This tale had the potential to be a very interesting series but the producers, et el, couldn't resist the temptation to show their openly liberal bias and use the format to paint Trump in the most negative light possible at every turn. All of the little, but very clear, anti-Trump digs planted in the scenes took so much away from the production. I started out being very engaged but by the end was simply glad so see the final credits role. Once the underlining agenda was exposed one starts to wonder where the fiction line is drawn with Anna's story. After all, there is a "truth disclaimer" right at the top of the opening. Having noted the bias and the acknowledged literary license used, it is easy to make the assumption that all of the Trump assertions made in the production are fictional too.
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Get real. This movie is crap.
The acting is forced, the dialog is bad, the props are laughable (dummies all over the place that look just like dummies) and the editing was done with a dull knife. The story is set in the US and yet all of the cars are Italian. The zombies are feared but they can't harm anyone. Vincent Price must have cried when he saw the final cut of this trash heap.
Traffic Stop (2017)
How did this get nominated
While the producers of Traffic Stop tried to use this incident to show the police as evil and the arrested black woman as unjustly mistreated, watching the actual dash cam video from the police cruiser, one can clearly see the woman refusing to follow instructions and then resisting arrest for no good reason. She wasn't mistreated. All she had to do was follow the lawful instructions of the police officer and she would have been sited for a traffic violation and then on her way. What happened to her was her own doing and no documentary filler of her teaching school or going to church will change that. However, it is also apparent that the officer quickly lost patience with the woman who was refusing to cooperate.
It was interesting that her probing dialog with the transportation officer taking her to jail seemed designed to gather material for the documentary. Her actions from start to finish weren't normal and after the arrest almost seemed calculated. Was this planned in advance or just a spur of the moment decision to get something on the police. Whatever the reason, the documentary comes off as one-sided and transparent. Not worthy of your time. How did it ever get nominated for an Oscar? Oh, right. It's Hollywood were no anti-social behavior goes unrewarded.