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Romancing the Birthday Girl (2021)
Wishes of a deceased mother
This film, without being remarkable, is a work to enjoy with very good acting and a simple but optimistic story. A time capsule buried when the protagonist was a girl by her mother, with indications to be opened on her 30th birthday, details a series of challenges with the intention of guiding the daughter through overcoming life's insecurities.
Surely it is a story told many times before, sweetened and friendly, but it is still a good comedy that can be enjoyed and allows optimism to flourish. I heartedly recommend it.
The Surprise Visit (2022)
A very long visit
With just five characters, this film is more or less entertaining, although it seems of been an episode of a TV series that should have lasted about 45 minutes, but that the writers stretched it to fit into the format of a feature film.
Thus, the lack of synthesis and the excessive length of some scenes make interest decline as the outcome approaches. The story is a typical cat-and-mouse trap and as soon as the chase is raised, the rhythm of the plot, instead of stimulating viewer's attention, collapses to a very predictable ending.
In this way, the visit becomes more of a lethargy than a surprise. Correctly acted by an efficient cast, however, it has its greatest weakness in the participation of Eric Robert. The veteran actor plays again his own person and grandiloquently recites his lines, as if his performance depended not on a director but on himself.
It can be seen but you have to make a great effort to avoid falling asleep.
Spoiler
In the fourth act, a woman's leg sustains a deep wound that requires a strong tourniquet to stop the bleeding. But in the following shots, the character, as if by magic, is already recovered and doesn't even limp holding a shotgun.
Amityville Uprising (2022)
Worse than Awful
How to synthesize this nonsense in 500 characters? With this rhetorical question I am already advancing that I did not like it, but it must be substantiated.
The argument (somehow you have to call it) is absolutely crazy, it begins as a catastrophe movie with an explosion that causes acid rain and the consequences on those who are exposed to it, then mutates into chaos inside a police station and its morgue where several characters die from burns, and finally... the dead are not dead! They come back to life infected with cannibalistic behaviors! It turns out that they are zombies.
Frankly awful script, bad performances and ridiculous sets, but also all done with a poverty of resources and technical knowledge that looks like a play (?) made by kindergarten children. Although it may seem absurd, I recommend this monstrosity for, as the saying goes, "seeing is believing".