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The Killer 2024
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Good movie. Over-the-top, dramatic, lingering action scenes all the way through, its fun and exciting and really engaging to watch. The characters are good, there's a lot of familiar ground retread in the genre yet all of them feel very fresh and vibrant, practically every character is interesting enough to make me wish they had at least one extra scene. The copaganda isn't great, but it's at least bad on the order of "good cops are rare and very important"…
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Luther: The Fallen Sun 2023
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Ok yeah this sucked.
There's almost too much to remark upon that was wrong with this movie and yet its hard to remember any of it because of how dull and uninspired it was, like an eighth grader writing James Bond from memory.
The copaganda is egregious. The villain gets our cop main character locked up for police brutality/misconduct right at the start of the movie, but it's not through framing him- he really was an insane dirty cop and…
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The Pale Blue Eye 2022
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I love stories with last minute reframing twists but it's just not clever enough to pull it off. The mystery isn't layered enough that a sudden reframing is particularly interesting, nor is the foreshadowing nuanced enough to be worth going back and checking. The twist itself is a SURPRISE for sure but it's not particularly satisfying.
One reason for this, the attempt to sell the transition from "gothic mystery" to "paranormal horror" is rather half-assed, feeling like it was derived…
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The Silencing 2020
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Wuhhhhh ok. I wanted to like this one more than this, both to be lenient to a film with obvious budget constraints and to applaud some of the more interesting things it did, but for the most part this movie is just not great.
It's hard to call a 90 minute movie a slog but this one kind of gets there. The pacing is legible as a thriller/mystery, but it doesn't do a good enough job of building/carrying tension to…
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