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To the twenty or so idiots that told me not to see this in cinemas, I have a real bone to pick with you. This was a GREAT sequel!
Look, I was never in doubt that nothing Paul Mescal said would live up to “I am Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And…
A special note for this LDAR episode because I found it harrowing. Beautifully done; utterly horrible. If I watch it again, someone will need to kill me.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Wow. I thought this film was gonna be a sick flick about Dev Patel putting on a mask and beating the crap out of people. It isn’t. It’s a film where Dev Patel puts on a mask and has the crap beaten out of him, again and again and again.
But more than this, it’s about violence against women, trans rights in a world that continues to harass the community, and religious hypocrisy. It’s filled with the iconography of violence…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Yes, I’m late. Yes I was fairly familiar with the plot going into the film - I worked in HMV when it came out and it was all over TikTok so it was hard to avoid. I knew the dog was cute and that Death (the wolf) was going to be awesome…
But holy SHIT was the dog, Perrito, cute! The film handled this little ball of trauma with such respect and gave him a real hero’s journey in amongst…
