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Uncut Gems (2019)
If you can follow it you need help
Clearly one of the most disjointed crime "thriller" genre films ever made. Poor screenplay. Poorly woven characters. Bad photography. Pointless, really. A movie for people with addiction, lying, sociopathic issues. Pure failure.
The Dead Pool (1988)
Retrospect Is A Mother
This is the most ridiculous film Eastwood ever made. Each scene is a classic stereotype. The model car chase is bizarre. He is years ahead of Trump in media hatred. The film makes reporters look impossibly stupid. Well, it is harsh to look back on this because it's so bad.
It does bring us the very young Jim Carey and Liam Neeson in a role he must regret to this day.
If you long for Dirty Harry, this will let you scratch that itch. Bang!
Mile 22 (2018)
A Bloody Mess
You stay sat in your seat waiting for the film to develop any type of coherent plot that develops any hope of the viewers' investment in the story.
Never happens. Bombs, bullets, grenades, knives, fights, chases, unrealistic tech....it's a mess. From start to finish, it's Whalberg acting tough and - like a mess.
Kill the Messenger (2014)
This Journalist Happy To See This Get Into The Light
Partial spoiler alert.
See this film. As an investigative reporter that worked on a connected aspect of this entire saga (we exposed one of the CIA drug/arms pilots and how he was indicted in San Diego, only to get off scott-free living in New Zealand), I saw this unfold in real time when Gary Webb's own editor Jerry Ceppos (spoiler here) reversed course and betrayed him at the San Jose Mercury News.
This film will anger and depress even the most casual viewer. However, for an investigative reporter who has never gotten over what happened to Webb, the only positive takeaway - besides the fact that Webb was right and he could have gone further - is that the world can now see Ceppos for what he is.
The worm went into academia and is out there still lecturing on "journalistic ethics" - which, as the term applies to him, is the ultimate oxymoron.
Considering how convoluted the entire saga was and remains to this day - this film is done in an extraordinary fashion. Renner is Oscar worthy here. The cast is outstanding.