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Twisters (2024)
Fun but entirely Predictable, with a flawed love interest
It was enjoyable, but my wife and i found ourselves uncontrollably laughing at the plot at several times. A predictable chain of increasingly implausible "worser case scenarios" linked together made various parts of the movie almost unwatchable. Key plot moments were recycled from the original twister movie, such as the movie theater scene, which likewise detracted from the overall plot. We both came to the same conclusion, the only thing missing in a "worser case scenario" "lets make this terrible situation even more over the top," plot choices, would have been to add a shark-nado.
Kiernan Shipka did a wonderful job with the plot she was given, as does Glen Powell. However, these two should not have been cast together. While there is some chemistry between them, Glenn looks 20 years older than Shipka, who, in another movie, could have been cast as a senior in high school. She's young, dealing with tragedy and hasn't quite come to terms with her life, and Powell comes off as immature (as intended in the script) , but with enough life experiences to, ahem, weather life's storms. The romance felt... misaligned and bordering on creepy.
This movie once again shows that remakes rarely do better than the original...
The Gray Man (2022)
Hard to watch... unrealistic in every way possible
Over the top violence with completely unrealistic situations, cliche sorry plot, terrible acting, unrealistic cgi, I can go on and on. I wasn't engaged with the plot at any point. This was the worst Jason Bourne 'esque movie I'd ever seen.
The Invisible Man (2020)
The movie was its own worst enemy. It failed in execution of the details.
Over and over the characters made implausible choices, or the details had serious errors which detracted too much from being able to watch the movie and enjoy it.
For instance, when Cecilia drops a can of paint on the invisible man: moments later Griffin has cleaned his whole suit in the kitchen sink and is invisible again. Apparently the writers have never had to clean wet paint off of anything because this was way too quick, especially that the suit is full of crevaces... it would have been better for Griffin to leave for the night and come back later...
Cecilia's sister is overwhelmingly invested in helping Cecilia, but when she receives the email, she's completely turned on Cecilia. It's unbelievable that the sister would turn that quickly. Instead of that forceful of a turn and removing herself from Cecilia's life, the sister should have just said she needed space. This would have been a more believable response, still alienating Cecilia without making the reaction unbelievable.
Cecilia escapes the mental ward of the detention center through an unlocked stairwell door... Again implausible. She should have grabbed keys and. Leaving out a 5 second spot ruined the scene. Then when she's running around the parking lot there's only two guards after her despite the multiple guards she passed exiting the movie. These guards too are so far behind her that she can walk casually between cars. These guards would have been hot on her tail. Then, the second guard is no where in sight when Griffin is firing at the first guard. They seem to have disappeared just like the invisible man himself.
Wounds sustained by the invisible man don't seem to follow from scene to scene. He was stabbed by Cecilia, but those wounds never seem to follow into next scenes. Then in the last scene of the movie where she's sitting at the table, it would have been easy for her to touch him where she stabbed him, just to verify one of his many wounds he should have still been healing from.
After Griffin's brother Tom is killed, and it's been revealed that Adrian Griffin is still alive, the police simply believe that Tom did it all himself... Despite it being apparent that Adrian is still alive. Everyone seems to forget that Adrian faked his own death. This would have been impossible for Tom to pull off on his own. Meanwhile the police don't seem at all interested in the fact that Adrian Griffin is still alive. Again, totally implausible choices on behalf of the characters made the movie unenjoyable.
Things like this happened over and over again in the movie.