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Saltburn (2023)
A surprise gem with a telegraphed unanswered ending
Let me start by saying the cast are brilliant, perfectly cast, extremely well acted and totally believable to a man, woman or any other gender we care to pitch in. I'd watch this film over and over again just for the fun of watching actors mastering their craft.
OK the plots a bit washy and telegraphed and the ending has wholes in it bigger than my 30 year old underpants but let that not spoil the beauty of this film I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Not a lot happens in the film for one that's 2 hours long, but surprisingly you'd never know as it hooks you and reels you in. The characters are a wonderful mix of parodies but you just don't care as they're totally believable in the moment and the film makes them feel just right.
Don't expect a "promising young woman" expect a calculating young man that will want you asking questions at the end as to why Emerald Fennell left huge unanswered holes in the plot.
Ferrari (2023)
Thank you Penelope Cruz.
I kid you not, if it wasn't for the most believable performance from the most unlikeliest of people this film would have been a car crash, not a spectacular super car bone crunching crash but a slow, mild fender bender of one. Penelope Cruz I take my hat off to you!
Cruz's performance rescues this limp, flat tyred vehicle of a film. Don't get me wrong, the film is watchable, it's historically interesting, it's well shot, great wardrobe department, a period piece love affair with cobbled stone streets, flamboyant Italian shade wearing lothario's, but it's stuck between which story it should tell and because of that it slowly nudges bumper to bumper with the minimalist of any sort of impact and its a real shame because Cruz's performance deserved a much better platform.
It really is two stories in one and both don't get the respect they deserve, the film should have been soley on the dysfunctional ferrari family and Enzo's lack of managing his pants or his car firm. Then a second film on the race, its aftermath and the lies/rises of the brand should have been a follow up.
So would I watch it again, probably but just to marvel over Penelope Cruz scene stealing at every opportunity and that sound track of the roaring of the cars blurring past the screen.
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)
Throw a pot of paint at the wall and watch it dry for 2 hours, it'll be more entertaining than this film
Oh, dear! Just like the cast probably did, I went in to this film with such high hopes. I presumed this film would be a great watch, a career defining moment for all those involved, a Zack Snyder film to be in ore of, alas it is anything but.
To be honest I wished I'd cashed out of this film after just five minutes, and by the looks of the acting chops of the cast...they actually did that themselves. From the opening shot the film had lost me, I was expecting a visual spectacular, only to be met with obvious set extensions and poor acting. With the emotional empathy of a charging rhino the cast ground the scatter gun nonsensical plot into the interstellar earth and they didnt give a monkeys by all accounts.
Bad cut after bad cut of ropey CGI, obvious set extensions and ScFi with zero heart or intent of the likes not seen for a decade and more grinds out before your eyes in a soul crushing realisation that the film just continues to slowly burn out after peeking with the opening credits, I was stunned...this is a Zack Synder film isn't it or was it Sack Zynder? And all that's not helped by a plot which is thinner than a bald man's hairline, it really is poor.
To cap it off it's part 1, oh god prey tell there's not going to be more made, not like this...please no!
I'll save you the trouble of wasting 2 hours of your time. Thrown a pot of paint at the wall, pull up a chair, sit back and watch it dry forv2 hours, I'll tell you for nothing, it'll be far more interesting than watching this film.
Dead Inside (2011)
The evil inside this film was the plot and the casting
Oh dear yet another film with a cast of actors playing stereotypical teens having a get together at someones house. We have the Jock, the close female slutty friends who via for male attention and ultimately fall out, the jealous boyfriend and his promiscuous girlfriend - enter the Jock, the rich party girl and the odd, creepy, ultimately psychotic one.
Sorry to say, same old, same old... get past what i call the dirty uncle plot (unpleasantly over familiar) plus the dire casting and the film is barely watchable, unfortunately it gets worse by the end of the film as the plot expands and you are treated to a blow by blow synopsis of what you have been unceremoniously treated to for the last hour and a half, instead of eluding to the initial story and letting the viewers fill in the gaps... it becomes very tedious.
Are there any original plots left in this genre?
The Corridor (2010)
Interesting concept but sadly like the cast it "lost the plot"
I'll be brief on this one... first 20 minutes is 15 minutes too long the rest of the film although not original was well put together and watchable up until the last 15 minutes where the plot got too far fetched and clumsy and surreal for the sake of being too clever for it's own good.
Also look out for the terrible shaved/bald head it's a howler, pure comedy gold, I bet the actor when sitting in make-up looking back at himself thought 'this isn't going to go well'. The characters are all very stereotypical and predictable for this kind of film, really the idea was there to make a much better film, the technical team was also capable by the looks of things, it just failed miserably to deliver.
This is a bottom shelf of your DVD collection filler that will get an airing once every few years, then you'll remind yourself why it's on the bottom shelf and not at your eye line.
Red State (2011)
Loved it, Michael Parks was on fire.
Man what a surprise this film was, loads of interesting characters and protagonist switching, you find yourself rooting for several characters one by one who never quite make it.
Story builds nicely with enough intrigue to allow you to go with it, Parks is so convincing in this film, damn he was good, and Goodman puts in a great turn too, the WACO scene worked on so many levels and I loved the slow down reveal at the end it reminded me of "burn after reading" except that was a dire film.
This film will definitely be on my watch again and again and again list.
The Entity (1982)
In it's day a great film, now faded on a modern audience
I remember watching this as a pre pubescent kid on a pirate video and alternating having a pillow on my lap or in-front of my face... now having watched it again 25+ years later I'm disappointed with the films break off half way through where all the tension either sexual or otherwise completely evaporates, this film needs to have a remake and not one of those watered down versions either.
The premises of the film is a demonic lothario bangs his intended victim when she is in her bedroom, thankfully these scenes are short and intense, viagra obviously wasn't around in those days and it doesn't take long for the ghouls ghoulies to be satisfied otherwise the film would have been 5 hours long.
As I said earlier, the film half way through takes another course which completely loses the impact and tension of the film, in fact the wallpaper in the victims house is more horrific than the later stages of the film and I was left with the feeling, about the transparent hands on the breasts, although to a pre pubescent they're cool, is that what they look like when a breast implant erupts.
NEEDS A REMAKE.
Aftershock (2012)
no more a horror than the towering inferno
The DVD cases calls this film a horror, I had to re check after watching the film in case I imagined it had said so...yep, it definitely state's HORROR, it's a pity the film makers didn't read the DVD cover before committing this film to the unsuspecting public.
Don't get me wrong, the film is worth a watch just don't expect the wrath of god to destroy Chile because of some past misdemeanor by promiscuous nuns, it's no fire and brimstone epic, just 6 over aged (you've seen it all before - think hostel) backpackers, yawn, yawn, touring a country when an earth quake comes to town.
The storyline and secondary actors are so telegraphed there's no Browne points for guessing the plot and who gets a grizzly end as the film progresses... throw in the unrealistic Olympian sprinting prowess of a couple of stiletto wearing women who put usan bolt to shame by out sprinting some Nike clad thugs down the cobbled streets even though at one point they could smell the salsa ladened thugs breath on their necks together with the absolute dire telegraphed ending which takes 5 minutes to play out and you have what promised to be a good film turn out to be rather a yawn fest.