The best M. Night Shyamalan movie he never made right up until it isn't. At which point it unfortunately starts to feel a bit more like his recent work.
It even does the whole antagonist(s) who is threatening but not violent thing, more effectively than Night's own "A Knock at the Cabin." Again, right up until it doesn't. (While the violence is ultimately very effective there's a part of me that really wishes they could have kept it going, at…
I threw on Resident Evil: Retribution after just to see all the same stuff done better.
With a reasonably original and intriguing pitch this should have been a home run. I even got into the Romance. The problem is a movie like this is going to live or die by what's actually in the Gorge. And while, the visuals and atmosphere are pretty solid, the actual explanation just makes this feel like a hundred or so other films. More unforgivably,…
It's been a little while since my opinion on a film changed this much on a second viewing. Still a little too long but George Miller is undoubtably one of the best Action Directors of all time. More importantly there is no one else whose mind works like his. Who could make something this bloody, bleak, and dark yet also have it open and end in ways that can only be described as feeling like a fairytale.
I knew right…
Possibly the most fascinating legacy sequel and undoubtably one that will age among the best as it's the only one that sees the entire trend that continues to dominate the box office as a negative. Here Nostalgia is a prison weaponized against the powers the be to suppress the freedom of true originality.
Released at the tail end of Covid this released on HBO Max the same day it hit theaters. While this was likely a contributor to it's disappointing…
