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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The rare movie experience where the naivety depicted is necessary to dive deeper into larger questions about how we treat the other and what that says about humanity's potential futures.
At multiple points throughout, most obviously when Mark Ruffalo's barely thinly veiled Trump impression comes into the scene, I was ready to cringe, but because the plot doesn't dwell on it too much, I was engaged by the larger context of the gaudy leader's absurd mission to found a new…
You know what you're here for, astounding footage of a maniac scaling El Capitan. What the fuck's wrong with this guy? The movie paints a fairly balanced answer to that question, though perhaps I'm a left wondering about the tech that also contributes to feats like free soloing greater and greater challenges (as in, human diet, conditioning, route planning), but I guess that wouldn't fit the drama so well.
You're telling me the Japanese let an outsider run their fictional mafia? After asking for this level of suspension of disbelief, this movie asks you to ignore increasing layers of other bullshit for the sake of weak entertainment.
Back stories are created in a few minutes only for the character of the moment to be disposed of within the same amount of time, all in the name of stuffing the cast with famous faces (including a seemingly CGI enhanced Sandra…
Better than I remember, probably informed by finally having seen the previous entries in the series.
Epic, great acting, beautiful sets and shots, creepy as hell, brought together by a looming otherness and a beckoning familiarity.