The Shepherd (I) (2023)
7/10
Worked for me, not sure why the hate
11 December 2023
Warning: Spoilers
My best guess: anti-Disney people coming to gripe because they are told it is their identity. Interesting how essentially every 4 and below review has several egregious spelling mistakes, isn't it?

Travolta is indeed meh, weird they couldn't get him to shave, but most of his acting is far away, in a cockpit, geared up, so no big deal.

Everyone else is fine. Some of the talking to yourself is because it's a movie, hard to have internal monologues that don't seem sillier.

Cockpit lighting is wrong, but it's a movie, I guess they couldn't persuade the producers people can get by with a dark film.

I really really hate bad CGI, find the last 2 years of Marvel nearly unwatchable from that, but... no problems here. Not sure what anyone finds unbelievable, looked good to me and a delight to a Vampire on film!

Vampires were prone to electrical failures even of instruments (and the author of the original tale flew them before his writing career) but he seems to have forgotten there's a plain old magnetic compass that should have worked. About the old real flaw here, and I suspect someone could have come up with a reason it fails also, but we can just handwave that for the story as the rest tracks nicely.

While not authentic, the ghost story inside a ghost story worked well also. If you like the concept of a guardian spirit, easy to imagine that each individual ghost is in their own world and so former batsman ghost is doomed to his own life, not working in cahoots with his former master. Nice surprise.
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