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Night's End (2022)
Abysmal
I think if Jennifer Reeder expects to get funding to make another movie she probably should start by taking her name off the credits of this piece of garbage and replace it with "Allen Smithee". It's a complete abomination. Never have I seen acting and writing so amateurish, SFX so poorly executed, a plotline so preposterous and enough cheese to cover the entire moon, all in one movie. It's not even in the "it's so bad that it's good" catagory. It's just bad. Period. And how they got the great Michael Shannon to appear in this mess is anyone's guess. Seriously, there is literally not enough negative adjectives in the English language to convey just how awful this movie is. You have been warned.
The Invisible Man (2020)
Disappointed
There was a lot to like about this movie (Elizabeth Moss) and the premise was ingenious. But the creators squandered whatever benefits they had going for them. A lot of decisions the main protagonist made were just dumb and didn't make any sense. And there where plot holes big enough to drive a truck through. It was extremely frustrating finding myself yelling at the tv "what the hell did you do that for?" or "why didn't she just... ". You get the drift. One example: Cecelia is laying on the floor of her room in James' house where she's staying, crying, when James' young daughter comes in to comfort her. She sits down on the floor at least 5 feet away from Cecelia. Cecelia sits up and smiles and tries to reassure the girl that she's ok. Earlier on, Cecelia had gifted the girl with $10,000 a month for a year to pay for her college tuition so these two were extremely close. Their conversation and their demeanour towards each other is friendly and comforting. Out of the blue, her invisible husband slaps the girl hard across the face. She screams out in shock and pain and James comes running in to see what's happening. His distraught crying daughter then tells her father, "She attacked me! Keep her away from me!! Cecelia tries to tell James it wasn't her but he believes his daughter. This is what doesn't make sense. Cecelia was sitting on the floor leaning with her back against her bed at least 5 or 6 feet away from the girl. She wouldn't have been able to reach the girl to slap her from that distance away without moving considerably closer to her but Cecelia never moved from her position. The girl was sitting directly in front of her so would have seen if Cecelia had lunged towards her to slap her. Anyone in that situation would have said, it couldn't have been Cecelia that hit me because she was nowhere near me and never made any move towards me. But no, despite all evidence to the contrary the girl still believes it was Cecelia that hit her. Even though logistically it would have been impossible and the fact that Celelia had no motive nor showed even the slightest trace of aggression towards her. The way the daughter was carrying on was just a massive over reaction and seemed very disingenuous. Another time she finds her husbands' phone in the attic of James' house. He'd left a bunch of his and her stuff up there to taunt her. She checks his phone and finds photos he's taken of Cecelia and the daughter asleep in the bed they're sharing, proving that her husband is still around and up to no good. But does she take the phone to show to James that something fishy is going on? Nope. She leaves his phone in the attic. WTAF??? Another thing... In the scene in the hallway of the mental institution where the invisible man is attacking and killing all the guards while Cecelia looks on helplessly, there would have been CCTV cameras everywhere plus guards overseeing tv monitors of different parts of the hospital, proving that Cecelia had nothing to do with the demise of the guards and yet in the aftermath Cecelia is still under suspicion of perpetrating the attacks! It's just ridiculous. And the amount of times her husband let her get away from him when he had the ability to stop her any time he chose. Another time... in the restaurant, after her sister is killed by the husband by putting a knife in Cecelia's hand and forcing her to cut her sisters' throat, she stands up in the middle of a crowded resturant holding a blood covered butchers knife in her hand in the brandishing position. If she had just unwittingly killed her sister in such a shocking and brutal way she would have screamed and dropped the friggin' knife immediately. Not stand up and hold the knife in the air like she's about to stab someone else. It was just ludicrous. It was if the director wanted the characters to behave a certain way and do certain things just to move the plot along regardless if those actions made absolutely no sense. Overall it was a fairly entertaining movie but very sloppily and lazily put together. A waste of Elizabeth Moss' talent.