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The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)
Hallmark Style Trope
"The Secret: Dare to Dream" clings desperately to the tired tropes of Hallmark style romance, making it quite a chore for anyone who doesn't have a fondness for cookie-cutter love stories. The narrative is a rollercoaster of predictability, each twist and turn easily foreseen before it even unfolds.
Katie Holmes's character, Miranda, is a struggling widow who borders on cliché, her struggles painted with the broadest strokes possible. Her sudden encounter with Bray, played by Josh Lucas, feels contrived and their chemistry never quite manages to ignite the screen.
The film's attempt to incorporate the concepts of the self-help book "The Secret" feels awkward and shoehorned in, acting more as a distraction rather than providing any depth to the narrative. The dialogue is overly saccharine and lacks natural flow, leaving you cringing more often than not.
Lastly, the cinematography and the soundtrack are unimpressive, failing to break the mold of the standard Hallmark-style visual and auditory ambiance.
All in all, "The Secret: Dare to Dream" feels like a missed opportunity to create a compelling romantic drama. Instead, it becomes a derivative offering that does little to stand out in an already saturated genre.
FBI (2018)
Bad writing mediocre acting.
I don't know what is worse, the writing or the acting. For instance, in one episode a nuclear facility inspector has been murdered, when the FBI team shows up to the victim's apartment, they find an person in the apartment who says she is also an inspector and was stocking the refrigerator. The agents don't question this person any further, no "let's see some identification"."No "let's look in the refrigerator." Nothing to verify who this person is or WTH she's doing in this murdered person's apartment. Every episode is so guilty of this shallow Hallmark channel writing and acting, that I want to throw something at the tv, but end up changing the channel a third of the way into the episode. Tell the writers to stay on strike until they can write something besides this drivel.
Soda Springs (2012)
Slow Moving Poorly Acted Waste of Time
This is a sad brooding movie. 25 minutes into the movie before any meaningful dialogue. Oh, we'll have to consider the encounter with the bruja on the road who dispenses cryptic wisdom while trading a perfectly good horse for dear departed Daddie's guitar. We get a travelogue of Soda Springs. The place where he committed his crime, and where everyone knows everyone and the police welcome him home with a beating. His momma and his former bar band buddy are the only people in the community who want him back, and then there's the former love interest. Don't waste your time, I had to shut this cliche filled piece of junk off before the halfway point cause it just wasn't getting any better.
Midsomer Murders (1997)
Good early episodes, going downhill now.
Enjoyed this for many seasons even though the writers are stuck on having village festivals. The latest season, however shows that even the stars are bored with the constantly repeating plot lines. Neil Dudgeon is sleep walking through his lines and his monotone delivery makes one think he walks on set having never looked at them. Now I realize I have to write a theme paper in order to post my comments, so I will drone on senselessly until the little red counter reaches it's endpoint, as if by adding a lot of verbiage, it will add to the basic point of this review. The show has gone on too long and the actors are sleep walking through the scenes. How's that?!