Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Legion 2010

  ★★ Watched 04 Feb 2025

  Decent action horror but absolutely barebones plot.

  Bettany doing some heavy lifting for the rest of the cast.

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  Green Lantern 2011

  ★★½ Rewatched 04 Feb 2025

  Rewatched this recently and it’s better than I remember? I previously though Reynolds was the only strong casting here but honestly most of the people work (Lively is sort of flat)

  Again, never gave your superhero fight a galactic space cloud but this was honestly better than I remember?

Popular reviews

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  Mission to the Sun 2018

  ★★½ Watched 24 Aug 2020 1

  A fairly boring documentary about an incredible achievement for humanity. I wish we saw some of the data that was transmitted after the probe reached its destination, too.

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  Mortal Kombat 2021

  ★★★ Watched 13 May 2021 2

  Mortal Kombat tries.  The CGI isn’t terrible, and the fight scenes are enjoyably brutal.  Lewis Tan is a good lead (even if his character couldn’t possibly be more lame) but aside from Scorpion and Subzero, the actors they have Tan working with just aren’t doing much with the material.  The actors playing Sonya Blade and Jax were particularly wooden.  The exception is Josh Lawson, who plays an absolutely batty Kano.  He makes the material work, and chews enough scenery for…