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Me and My Mates vs. The Zombie Apocalypse (2015)
stars jim jefferies?? did he get bored and go home early?
despite generally poor reviews i watched this for jim jefferies thinking there must be something in it for his fans - believe me their is not. indeed, i thought and still think he gave up halve way thru and asked to be allowed to go home. i joke not. there is a scne part way thru where he seems to get blown up off screen and never appears again, itis hard to believe and all thru remainder of movie i expected he would return to paly soem key function in film, but he does not. I cannot say i blame him for asking to be let off early if that is what happened.
there are so many Aussie tropes that could have played welll to a light hearted zombie comedy that are just missed in this film.
another of those movies where u wonder how people can get backing and the be too lazy(?) or talentless(?) to do a decent job of putting together a fun wack the zombie movie. It has no idea of where it is headed, no sense of whether it wants to be light comedy, boys fun, gore, or whatever and achieves nothing. Nothing at all.
Hap and Leonard (2016)
less good than should be mrlansdale
In hap and leonard Joe Lansdale created two iconic characters and they are excellently imagined here by the two leads but often wasted as they seem to take backseat to most of other characters - why have them tied up for huge amounts of series? Between being tied up or shot they barely function. Thiscould be the soldoer and angel show. In a longer runningseries u need to disable your potent devices to have an effective story line (the transporters are malfunctioing again captain!) but not by episode 3 of series 1!
However truly criminally slack plot holes that Lansdale should be ashamed of. For example, after the dive when the police are at MArvel Creek and team scurry backc to Leonard's place - may be police might just follow up on finding Leonard's truck? Really? Dead police officeers but no one wants to check that lead? Are the gators sleeping at night? Lets both go in the water. I could go on, but whats the point?
I hope there is another seriesbut if itcan't be better than CSIstandard of writing then would prefer Joe Lansdale stuck to his excellent books
Sicilian Vampire (2015)
relentlessly awful
equal parts goodfellas and dusk till dawn? no equal parts dull and broing no characters that meant anything, no chtracter development, no susepnse, barely neded vampires or gangsters, who could care? why bother? why bother? Some fine actors for thsi sort of movie should have made for a passable coupel fo hours but instead they seem to be wasted.another reviewer liked this film because he said it was it was made in canada, I am sure he found the best thing about it, but for movie goers not needin to support the Canadian film industry or wanting to be entertained rather than being selfless patrons of the visual arts it may be hard to find a reason to part with your cash