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S.W.A.T.: Provenance (2022)
This is an identification of a blooper, not a review.
A photo of the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, FL appeared on a quick scene on this episode when they were using their technology to identify where a crime was in progress. They were acting like a robbery was going on at the shown location but the episode takes place in Los Angeles. They were calling it the Restoration Auction House.
The Clearing (2004)
There will be nothing clear here except the theater seats
The Clearing is a terrible waste of talent. Robert Redford and Helen Mirren try their best to bring some life into their characters but the writing is so poor that they are merely vehicles for the plot. And the plot is so narrow and lacking creativity of any sort that it is a wonder that this movie was made at all. Willem Dafoe plays the only character of any interest but Dafoe has played similar but more fleshed out characters before. It feels like the principal actors should have phoned in their performances since none of them had to stretch their skills for these roles in the least. It is confusing why actors of this caliber would have consented to such a meandering and lackluster project such as this. The guests who came to dinner at the beginning of the film and who were only on camera for about a minute seemed much more interesting than any of the main characters. I wish the camera had followed them instead.
The film hints at having more depth than it portrays. There are references to indiscretions and unfulfilled lives but nothing is resolved, no lives are enhanced and meaninglessness rules. Perhaps that is the screenwriters intent. However, I expect more. The characters show some anguish about their circumstances but it is as if they never evaluated their lives at all and they have no strengths on which to draw. They are pathetic but evoke no empathy. They have resigned without a plan and are hopelessly lost in the world. The only hope this film evoked in me is that at least I knew at some point it would end.