While not without some good scenes, the movie on the whole it's a bit too rocky to really enjoy.
The story, which credit for bothering to actually put one in your action movie, is told largely through a series of lengthy flashbacks randomly throw into various scenes which take place in the present. There's no real indication these scenes are coming so the transitions both into and back out of them can be jarring.
The biggest issue though is that…
Largely this functions, as many such movies will, as a sort of extended episode of the show. It works fine as what it's trying to be. It's generally funny enough, no full on belly laughs but I got a few chuckles out of it. The late stage redemption of Homer feels a bit (read significantly) unearned but it's kinda mandatory that the movie ends on a positive note so I'll let it go without too much fussing.
I'll start this by saying that I have no knowledge of the short story this is based off of so I cannot speak to it as an adaptation of that story. Everything I'm saying here is about this movie as its own movie.
Having just watched Longlegs (2024) this movie strikes me as being quite similar both in terms of the core components and how I ultimately feel about it.
Both films have the main character caught up in a…
Connery's second to last (or third to last if you're counting Never Say Never Again) outing as Bond is a step up from Thunderball.
This film sees Bond sent to Japan and makes very certain that you don't forget that. Promptly after entering the country, Bond is sent to witness a Sumo wrestling match before being attacked by a man with a katana, drinking sake, and eventually seeing a ninja training school. Yes really. The filmmakers probably did go a…
