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Jason Bourne 2016
Incoherent plot that goes nowhere. You simply cannot kill the director of the CIA a few minutes after said director orders the assassination of Mark Zuckerberg from the HVAC system of a Vegas conference hall and just… wrap things up with a neat girlboss epilogue (I will tolerate no Alicia Vikander slander though). Everything looks fake. Hilariously topical, in the worst way. “Don’t you want to stick it to the corrupt organizations that govern society”; “Worse than Snowden”. A Silicon Valley (HBO) character does not belong in a spy movie.
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Companion 2025
Dreadfully surface-level, which would be fine if the plot was engaging, but it’s just all over the place, tonally. And the plot holes are more like crevasses.
The stakes of the situation should be incredibly high but the movie’s refusal to engage with the implications of its subject made it feel hollow and uninteresting.
We’re given little insight — beyond cliche — into the interiority of the robots, Josh and Eli are caricatures rather than fully-realized characters (in the vein…
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Bring Them Down 2024
moral of the story: dudes (and I cannot emphasize this enough) don’t rock
a little disappointed at how the dread sort of drains out from it in the last 10 - 15 minutes. everything before then feels like it’s preordained, in a great way — something, something, there is no discussion to be had, no “solution”: damaged men must lose more of themselves in the face of pure intransigence, this is how you survive here, etc. but then it peters out…
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