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Reacher: Burial (2023)
Oh dear Lord, what have you done?
The adventures of Dumb and Dumbest...
This adaptation of the excellent book by Lee Child makes my brain hurt.
The constant explaining of the plot by the 4 musketeers is painful and does nothing to maintain or build the tension.
It's like the script writer took Lee Child's book and stuck it in Chat GPT and wrote the prompt "rewrite this so a 6 year old could understand".
The dialogue is awful. One 'action packed' episode had the plucky quartet sit in a diner for 20 minutes explaining the plot, again...
I've seen more action, tension and drama in Driving Miss Daisy!
As one other reviewer wrote, just film the book. Lee Child's dialogue is crisp, efficient and clear. His pacing and plot structure are wonderful. This abomination needs the life choking out of it, as Reacher says in ep. 5.
Sweet Girl (2021)
Jason Mamoa is danger of becoming this generation's Steven Segal
Truly awful.
JM needs to pick better scripts than this 'straight to DVD' nonsense.
The Boys (2019)
Interesting addition to the super hero genre
A clever premise for a series which reflects how superheroes would be treated in our modern, corporate world.
Karl Urban is great, although he can't seem to decide which accent to use :-)
Sinister (2012)
Late to the party but... nothing happens in this film
I've just watched this on Amazon Prime.
The film is beautifully shot, but essentially nothing happens! Ethan Hawke wanders around a house with a baseball bat in the dark.
He drinks a lot, argues with his wife a lot and falls asleep, a lot.
An attempt at creepy "The Shining" style shocks near the end.
Cut to credits.
The Company Men (2010)
No drama whatsoever
Man loses job. Man annoys wife by moping around at home after losing job. Man sends out lots of CVs. Man gets new job. The End.
Really, this film is that awful.
I was expecting some insightful exploration of how the financial crash affected the lives of those affected.
This film felt like it was written by a bunch of Economics High School students doing a project.
There are enough heavyweight actors involved to surely have seen through the threadbare script.
May be they were just 'insuring' against their own financial crisis by just turning up for another day at work.
The sort of day where you manage to make yourself look busy without actually doing anything productive.
No plot development. No character arc. No drama. No Point...