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Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019)
Movie about nothing.
The movie is about Brexit, yet at no point in time is Brexit actually described. What is it, when it took place, what were people voting for and what was the result.
When somebody from outside Britain will watch this in 25 years he will have no clue what is the plot about, who are those people and what exactly was it about.
What it does have is a scenes of main character talking to asphalt and asking grass to reveal its secrets. What does that mean? Is he insane, is pressure getting to him, is Brexit the name for a race of sentient underground monsters about to eat all human kind? Dont know, its never mentioned again.
No mention of Reddit, twitter, 4chan, tumblr and all the other social media people take memes and their political information from nowadays, one mention of facebook though. Instead it seems Brexit was decided by email spam send out by one guy from a closet.
2/10, complete incoherent trainwreck with no overarching story but a lot of preaching and making fun of people i never heard of (im not British).
A Movie that just came out and already feels a relic of the past, avoid at all cost.
Gojira: Kaijû Wakusei (2017)
A sequel to a non existing movie.
The biggest problem of the 32nd entry in this franchise is that it feels like apart of a series, a middle part, yet at the very same time it has almost nothing in common with the previous movies.
While it does have references to the previous movies like Mechagodzilla, and obviously Godzilla himself is the main antagonist both his powers as well the world it takes in is completely original and knowledge of previous entries isnt required or even helpful, meaning no matter if you are new to Godzilla movies or not you will go in and leave equally confused.
In this universe humans live together with another alien race, earth is completely devoid of human life while humans themself long ago abandoned their home star system as they poses space faring technology. This weird but never explained society is ruled by some barely described group that refuses to give up power, they are internally divided among factions never described, and there is a some barely mentioned alien church also struggling for power. On top of that there are resource and living space problems, but how serious we dont know, as well as light speed travel capabilities that seem to be breaking down, or maybe not as the movie dosnt bother to cover this field ether.
And yet nothing of this is part of the story, it feels like there is one movie missing setting up the world and the current political situation, its this very lack of setup that hurts the movie the most when complex internal politics get involved.
As most of the time we dont know what going on the movie is forced to constantly explain the situation to us in minutes long exposition dump monologues. Characters will often stop what ever they are doing turn to each other and give an info dump for a minute or two filling us in on the lacking world building as well as explain to use what this futuristic technology is capable of and how it will be used in the next scene. While many of s-f movies set in far away future are guilty of this its rarely to this extent.
The action is passable, but the characterization is awful as there is barely any time left for characters whose role isnt explaining to us one thing or another.
If you want to know more about those aliens, something that you would think would be quite a game changer for the series then you are out of luck, they play no real role in the movie.
And to top it all off there is no ending. While the movie is supposed to be fallowed with 2 more sequels, its hard to be satisfied with a fade to black in a middle of an action scene as if someone cut the power at your house. We leave the story almost in the same place we start, with not much resolved but with few of barely developed characters dead.
In the end it feels just like another low budget 24 episode s-f anime series only with half the content cut up and sold as a single movie.
Its not one i would recommend for ether Godzilla fans or s-f fans.