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Masters of the Air (2024)
Bland of Brothers
Whatever magic John Orloff managed to weave into the scripts of Band of Brothers is missing in action in this desperately boring, unconvincing, lazy waste of $250m.
After two episodes Band of Brothers was engrossing, essential viewing. This show needs a rewrite and a reshoot. It's worse than Pacific, and that was awful.
Every set looks like a set (what's with all the blue lighting?) There's no tension in the action sequences and it's hard to care about any of the cast. Everything feels superficial. Nothing feels authentic, least of all the acting.
It's a cast of uninspiring caricatures in search of a storyline. I'll give it one more episode and if things don't improve I'm bailing.
Da 5 Bloods (2020)
How do you solve a problem like Spike Lee, huh?
Spike Lee couldn't direct traffic; as he's proved yet again with this car crash of a movie.
Terrible script and dialogue, every point driven home with a sledgehammer, and Delroy Lindo putting in one of his worst performances ever.
Subtlety has never been Spike Lee's forte, his films are the long-form equivalent of a 12-year old's Tik Tok posts.
Not as bad as Summer of Sam, but certainly snapping at its heels.
Please stop giving Spike Lee money to make films.
The Lost City of Z (2016)
Should be renamed The Lost City of Zzzz...
What was probably an incredibly interesting story has been turned into an incredibly dull film. Charlie Hunnam's Fawcett is as flat as roadkill and Robert Pattinson might as well have stayed at home in bed for all he brings to the tale. As for Angus Macfadyen; he obviously thought he was in a different movie entirely. Three times during this film Fawcett travels to the Bolivian jungle yet we barely learn anything about the place or his expeditions. The director skips hastily from one badly written scene to another with all the depth of a Stephenie Meyer novel. This film is an episodic series of set pieces, many of which should have been left in a heap on the cutting room floor; the entire WW1 sequence brings absolutely nothing to the story except filling quarter of an hour of screen time with clichéd dialogue and hackneyed visuals. With Fawcett's final trip to the jungle you might think that the fabled Lost City of Z might finally make an appearance; you'd be wrong. The film fizzles like a damp squib and then the credits roll, and not too soon either. Snore on.