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Reviews
Renegade Nell (2024)
Amateur hour
I'll be brief.
Cast: so and so, it is really unclear what would be a good cast for a story that can't hold on its seems.
Plot: it's not that there are holes in it, it's just few threads and thin bits on a background of one big hole. There is no much logic in what characters do, no substantial motives.
The world itself is so far-fetched and not believable.
Dialogues: mostly not funny (as they were supposed to be) and overall irrelevant. Everyone speaks in some made-up generic "period" language straight out of the American writers' heads, commoners and noblemen alike.
Fight scenes and stunts: pure Bollywood, and low-budget at that.
Overall: something made so poorly thate leaves you irritated rather than entertained.
Around the World in 80 Days (2021)
And to add insult to injury...
They hired a thirty-years-old actress to play someone who is supposed to be ten years younger, put a ton of makeup on her face to make her look forty-ish.
Seriously, as if the change in plot, the main characters, the forced-on agenda wasn't enough.
Shadowplay (2020)
Pure propaganda
Two episodes in, and it's clear as day. White knights the 'muricans whom the Germans civilians adore, the devious Russian murdering beasts responsible for each and any crimes in the city. They kill good Germans. Oh, and the gentle omission of the simple fact that it was the Russians who actually took the city and lost some 90000 soldiers in the process and later invited the rest of the valiant Western liberators to share it. Just great. Goebbels indeed would be proud.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020)
The Springfield Tyre Yard
I just hope that the main actors, writers and producers will never be employed as actors, writers and producers ever again
The New Pope (2020)
So boring
Six episodes and nothing happens. A typical "festival film" stretched to too many episodes. Malkovich being Malkovich, the rest of the cast is just a prop. Except, maybe a Machiavellian Secretary of State, the actors walk, talk and gesticulate away to the only purpose Sorrentino always had for the actors: to look beautiful in beautifully composed frame. That's it, a succession of exquisite frames intentionally devoided of any story or substance, just the sheer senseless beauty.
Definitely not made for an audience, but for the director himself as everything he shoots.
Mind-numbingly boring