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Mare of Easttown (2021)
Highly recommended by a cynic who is hard to please.
I watched the first half hour of episode 1 and I thought "these people are so crass and boring" so I switched off. My wife loved the show and convinced me to stay with it. I went back and started again and I'm glad I did. Excellent acting, especially Kate. Gritty realism, but very human. Highly recommended.
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
What a waste of 4 hours
This is a serious load of twaddle. Extend it to 4 hours and get people to pay a gain? Over use of CGI. Totally stretching credibility. Story seems to be designed to gat as much CGI and sparks in as many scenes as possible. Rubbish. And I know thousands love it and that's their right. But I have to disagree.
Bushwick (2017)
Don't waste your time
Poor script, even worse acting, terrible plot. The whole premise is ridiculous. And what marine veteran would not take the automatic weapons from fallen enemy combatants? His pistol seemed to be all he needed against superior firepower. Some glitches too: when the vet and the blonde leave her grandmothers house, across the street there a bunch of people just standing, waiting, while the soldiers are shooting everything in sight. And the grandmother is obviously breathing. Don't bother.
Gunned Down (2017)
Stare at the wall for 90 minutes, you'll be better off.
I am not sure who put up the money for this, but he would have been better off drinking it. Lame plot, wooden acting, and a total non-ending sum it up. Holes in the plot, timings and action out of sync, and the clichƩd London hard man spiel is worn out. Not good overall. A waste of time.
Riviera (2017)
Over promised
Started with great promise, but faltered early on. This show seemed to lose its way about half way through. Some of the casting was ridiculous and Lena Olin mumbled her way through some of the scenes where her dialogue was important. And the ending was a joke, it was like we've run out of time, let's end this now. Very disappointing overall.
Elite (2017)
Amateurish
This movie is so disjointed, it's hard to watch. It's also hard to listen to. The sound editing is very uneven, the video editing is jumpy and disjointed. The story line is sloppy and assumes you will fill in the blanks for yourself. I have just wasted an hour watching this rubbish. Why has movie making slipped so far down the scale over the last few years? Is it because everyone with a smartphone thinks they are directors? This movie could have been so much better with a bit of extra attention to detail.
The Nice Guys (2016)
Very disappointing
The trailer was so much better than the film. Incoherent plot, mumbling dialogue from Ryan Gosling and barely there acting from Russell Crowe. These two actors are capable of so much more and it is a shame the way they stumbled through this rubbish. I should have asked for my money back, but I doubt if anyone would listen. Stay away from this junk and look for a movie with some acting, a plot, and actors who care about the movie they are in. The actress who plays Ryan Goslings daughter ( Angourie Rice) stole the whole show. Watch out for her in future, she is going to be a star. I guess I am getting old and jaded, but movies lately seem to have gone off an artistic cliff. Special FX, car chases, CGI and shock tactics seem to have replaced story lines and acting. Look at the King's Speech, no aliens, no CGI, no car chases, just a good human story and good acting. I suppose the majority of viewers are more interested in visual stimulation than a real story so this will do well, alas.
Jack Irish: Dead Point (2014)
Ignore the "lazy Australian acting) review
Just watched this after reading a review that accused the cast of "lazy Australian acting" and was intrigued to see what that looked like. I was pleasantly surprised, good story, beginning, middle and end all in the right place, no CGI, no aliens, no fantasy scenes, one explosion. Guy Pierce is a good actor and he usually plays believable characters. I am going to Melbourne at Christmas so I watched it to see what the city looked like.
All in all a lot better than a lot of the movies I have wasted time on in the last few years. Whoever wrote that review seemed to have a bit of spite towards Australians, or Australian actors anyway.