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Revenge (2011)
Dallas and Dynasty reborn
This series takes me back to my childhood when Dallas and Dynasty were running forever. The plot twists are exactly the same; lots of money and fancy houses, separation, bastard children, comas complete with amnesia following, devilish friends, trust funds, stock power battles, an abundance of mysterious strangers from the past etc. Only the family is called Greyson, not Ewing :-) The first few episodes were actually promising (if simplistic and cliché in other ways) but I guess the writers realized it would be a short show if they removed the main characters one by one and decided to go on a plot rampage I haven't seen since the eighties.
There are some pretty good actors involved, but the dialog is corny and the voice over laughable.
If you want to have some fun try listing the preparation and skills the main character has achieved in her short life. Or better yet the decisions her fiancé has taken and then reneged on during one summer. And how the devil did a Japanese sensei get into the plot? The continuity is also amusing; gaping wounds that disappear over night etc.
I stopped watching when yet another mysterious stranger from the past showed up. But it is still better than much of the crap out there.
A Dangerous Man (2009)
Sub par action movie
Strange plot that seems to exist mainly to supply Steven Seagal with bad guys to kill and expendable semi-good guys to get killed by the bad guys.
The characters include stereotypical Russians, Asians and bad cops, randomly twisting strippers and a damsel in distress. The hand to hand combat scenes are a bit more violent than Hollywood standard, but choppy. This is probably because Seagal has gotten to old to move fast enough and the scenes have been sped up and cut. As we have almost come to expect everyone seems to be able to fight through incredible damage and villains left for dead who pop up for a final beating are standard.
Seagal is now puffy faced and 10-30 kg overweight but still a bad actor. In this movie he attempts an American accent that comes and goes throughout the movie.
Video and sound is what you would expect from a medium budget movie.