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Jolt (2021)
Meh.
A great concept and a decent performance by Kate Beckinsale that is let down by a weak and overly contrived script.
A-X-L (2018)
Disappointing
Great concept. Good cast. I mean nobody is going to win any Oscars for their performance in this film. But they all did a perfectly fine job in their roles. Same with the cinematography, sound, etc., it was all perfectly fine. Unfortunately they were let down by an awful script. I'll give it this much. It wasn't cliche, predictable or formulaic. It was just for lack of a better word, stupid. The "villain" characters were all ridiculously two dimensional. People behaved and reacted to things in completely unrealistic ways. It all just felt really contrived, forced and as I said before, stupid. In the hands of a more capable writing team this could have been a solid teen sci-fi movie on a par with something like Divergent, The Hunger Games or Ready Player One.
The Missing: The Meeting (2014)
Great show
I'm loving the show in general thus far. However I was surprised to learn in episode three that in France when people hear a siren that pedestrians just continue to cross the street and drivers don't pull over and stop moving but just keep on driving and proceeding through intersections. I guess the writers were stumped for another way for the suspect to escape. A lot of viewers seem bothered by the pacing, but I find it helps give me a real sense of tension and impatience which is what I believe the parents of a missing child would be feeling. Ditto for the way in which subtitles are used. I notice that only when it's a Francophone speaking to another Francophone that it is translated for us, but when the parents are present and someone speaks in French it isn't. I at first was very bothered by this but came to realize it's meant to show us how frustrating things would be from the parent's perspective when they couldn't understand what was being said.
Man on a Ledge (2012)
Rubbish
The movie was okay for most of it, then it took a turn. I'm so sick of modern writers. They write a character who is supposedly so smart that he can outsmart everybody and get the diamond, but not smart enough to realize that giving the diamond back means nothing, they're all dead anyway because men like that don't let people live. Lazy writing makes me want to find out where the writers live, fly, take a train, or whatever how many days it takes to get there, go to their house, knock on their door and punch the writers in the face when they answer the door for being lazy, inept idots using lame plot devices and not staying true to characters they spent time building and wasting our time with drivel. The characters spend all this time getting the diamond to prove his innocence but they have no end game. Seriously, they didn't plan this out. I'm no writer but just off the top of my head in thirty seconds I can come up with they could have had cameras with them broadcasting live to the internet when he returned to his office with the diamond proving he had it all along. They could have used their guns to walk him down to the street and make him reveal on camera to the hundreds of people waiting and the news crews that he had it all along. I'm not even a writer and I came up with two way more plausible outcomes than the hacks who wrote this did and I did it in seconds. You would suppose they had months to write it but the best they could come up with for a man they wrote as so intelligent that he could outsmart everyone, get out of prison, recover the diamond, set off an explosion while nobody notices, keep the public eye on him the whole time, he's that brilliant, but so they can have an action scene, they suddenly write this character they've portrayed as so bloody brilliant as the stupidest moron on earth with no exit plan. The hacks who wrote this should never get another job.
The Expendables 2 (2012)
Apparently we're supposed to root for people who make idiotic choices.
Why does Hollywood insist on making action movies without the benefit of a decent plot. Why do they keep making characters who act like they have an IQ of a block of wood. You're telling me that a man with the experience Sylvester Stallone's character is supposed to have in this business couldn't see what the entire audience saw coming, that Jean-Claude Van Damme's character was going to kill Liam Hemsworth's character. He is such a complete utter moronic idiot that he can't see what we all could see the minute the scene started. They make all the characters act like a bunch of wimps and totally roll over and do as they're told, but we're supposed to believe they are some of the most dangerous assassins in the world. So follow along with me, they're the smartest most dangerous assassins in the world, but they totally get taken in by one of the most obvious ploys and do nothing to defend themselves, just take it like a bunch of losers, give up the package and let their team mate get killed any way, but we're supposed to root for them. Because idiotic losers who make stupid choices are what we're supposed to root for. They seem to be confused with what an underdog is if that's what they were going for, underdogs are INCREDIBLY GIFTED AND SKILLED but just never catch a break or haven't had the opportunity to prove their worth yet. Incredibly gifted and skilled people would have never fallen for that ridiculously obvious ploy. How are we supposed to recover from thinking what a bunch of inept losers they are and root for them. They should have fired every writer on this staff when they read the first draft. Heroes don't have to be stupid. In fact it's unlikely they'd ever have become the team we're supposed to believe they are if they were ever that stupid. I would like to give the movie much more than a 1 out of 10 based on the action scenes because a lot of them were really quite good. I just can't get past the drivel that's supposed to pass for a script or plot. I miss the days when action heroes were actually written as smart, skilled, intelligent people instead of dim witted meat heads who create situations because of their actions and then get all enraged. How about giving them legitimate reasons to go after someone instead of manufacturing ridiculous ones that make the protagonists look like morons. The plutonium and the destruction it would cause wasn't enough to warrant them going after them, of course not, because that makes sense. We can't have an action hero these days that actually does something sensible. They have to totally screw the situation up then spend the whole movie fixing it, because stupid people always become tops in their field, right?
Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Sacramentum Gladiatorum (2010)
Fail on the part of the writers
For me personally I hate when writer's employ plot devices like this. In the first episode they prove to us repeatedly that Spartacus is a veteran warrior. Skilled with a myriad of weapons and shield and extremely proficient in one on one combat or fighting large groups where the odds are greatly against him yet always prevailing. He is masterfully skilled in all forms of combat and proves it not only on the battlefield, but also in a siege on his village where he rescues his wife and finally in the arena where equipped only with a sword against four opponents who are fully armed and armoured and he prevails every time. Suddenly in this episode we're expected to believe that this veteran warrior is suddenly unskilled because fighting in the arena requires specialized training. Now I could see this making sense if in the arena they used some specialized form of combat or weapon. They do not. In the arena they use all the tools that they spent all that time showing us in the first episode how proficient Spartacus is with them. Primarily a sword and shield. Weapons that Spartacus time and again showed his expertise with in the first episode. In this episode we're suddenly expected to believe that the man who prevailed against multiple opponents repeatedly in the first episode suddenly is defeated by everyone he battles including a much less skilled opponent. Even when they finally give him a victory it's one he barely achieves. All this seems to me to have been done to create dramatic effect and to break Spartacus' character down so he finally submits to Batiatus. They wasted an entire episode on this. For me I just couldn't suspend disbelief enough to believe that the man they went out of their way to show as an unparallelled warrior in the first episode was suddenly almost an unskilled buffoon on the battlefield on this episode. They already had all the motivation they needed for Spartacus to submit to becoming a gladiator all along and it's what they ultimately ended up using, his love for his wife and the promise of eventual freedom so he could rescue her. The fact that they used this motivation any way, just made the choice to make Spartacus such an inept warrior for most of the episode seem even more ludicrous to me. I often feel like writer's are insulting our intelligence when they go out of their way to make us believe one thing in one episode and then shortly thereafter in subsequent episodes want us to believe something completely contrary. I'm all for suspending disbelief in entertainment, but I'm also about logic and there's no logical reason for Spartacus' sudden ineptitude. It overshadowed everything else in the episode for me. I loved, loved, loved the first episode, but this follow up was a let down for me.