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His Only Son (2023)
Highly Inaccurate Telling of an Important Biblical Story!
I do not often feel compelled to write reviews.
There was no effort to actually follow in step with the Bible. Genesis 17:27 tells us Abraham is 99! Sarah is 90, Ishmael is 13. A year later Isaac is born. This matters if you're making a movie about faith and not about writer and director ego.
The violence during the 3 day journey is not Biblically supported nor in the writings of Josephus. This is a directorial reach. For what reason, one could only imagine, it clearly takes away from a faithful Abraham. Finally, Abraham was one of the richest men in the world! Kings trembled knowing he was coming. The director seemed to ignore real resources and try to poorly force us to follow his lackluster emotional back and forth opinion of Biblical truth. Mel Gibson cited more than 600 book resources in creating The Passion, and yet his depiction tightly followed the Bible. It is difficult to understand who the director followed in the making of this film. The producers bear responsibility for this as well!
This story should have been about Abraham's faith being tested. It should have recognized more accurately the contribution of Issac as a young teenager's obedience to his father! This movie failed dismally. One account clearly states Abraham left early in the morning (without telling Sarah!) That account matches the Bible! It boggles the mind some of the review who called this movie, "An accurate depiction." Shame on you! No wonder so many religious movies lack authenticity!
Pieces of Her (2022)
It's Not Worth A Season 2
The Good Toni Collette! Her acting doesn't disappoint. That's all I can find thats good.
The Bad Jane, Andi, and the writers of the screenplay. I didn't read the book, and based on suffering through all 8 episodes, and reading multiple reviews, I'm not going to waste my time. If you haven't read the book or watched the series, don't waste your time either! The daughter is 30 years old, still lives at home and acts like a privileged spoiled child who is undisciplined and has an inability to listen. The character, Andi, is truly without logic and reason. It's unimaginable to think the writer would actually believe any reasonable person would behave this way in similar circumstances.
Perhaps this is where logic falls away. It is clear the intent of the story is for the audience to actually believe a normal, prudent person would make the same idiotic decisions this daughter continues to make throughout each episode.
Finally, (spoiler ) We find out Jane is actually the truly guilty one... leading into a possible season 2. How could they do this to us?
Dispatch (2016)
Don't waste your time on this trash
Poorly written for a movie that had potential with a good story. This was a Lifetime Channel movie gone bad. It's not even a bad B movie. Multiple Illegal searches are just one of the many ridiculous parts of a "cop" movie with clearly no research in how cops do their jobs. The title alone should tell you to steer clear - 911-Nightmare... a Nightmare of directing, acting, and plot.
Chambers (2019)
Uncredited Main Character!
Stars on the talk show circuit are excited about this show! I started to watch based on their description and the carefully filtered previews. Slow, and somewhat disjointed, but it seemed to have a good starting sequence. As the episodes continued on, dragging in spots, I noticed something very peculiar. The character known as, "Ruth", is uncredited. She not in the list of characters at all, and yet, she seems to play an important part of the plot (sorry for the spoiler). This oversight is indicative of the disjointed nature of the show! A potentially great story, conceptually, and yet, the holes are so blatantly obvious, just like forgetting to credit Lilli Taylor, an accomplished actress of many films! How could this happen?