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Outside the Wire (2021)
Training Day in the future with robots!
It was so dull I actually thought Kathleen Kennedy had something to do with it. Imagine taking I,Robot (that already ventured pretty far from Asimov's original) and taking the remaining logic out of it. So you have robots and androids, which already makes no sense (why keep old, slow, expensive tech around?) then add random SciFi genre nods from BSG (networked computers bad) Star Trek (were Khan's intentions bad?) a little CoD:BOCW (warheads that have a common code that the bad guy wants to steal) and Terminator (Anthony Mackie tries to act cold like the T-1000... but only when the script says so)
Positives: really nice action sequences, Hungarians will smile at the "Ukraine" scenes, the actors are doing a reasonably good job with a crappy script.
Watch this only if you have nothing else on your Wishlist.
Ford v Ferrari (2019)
How many RPMs was it again?
Okay, get this out of the way first: 7000 revolutions per minute - the limit of the Ford 427 engine... or better, the limit of the valvetrain. A stock(ish) 427 will start to float its valves above 7k and lose power. This was it... it's not a hard limit, a few years later these FE motors were turning 8-8500rpms, but the screenwriter for some odd reason focused on this minutiae. Everything else is perfect; although we know what happened in '66, everyone in the theater was sitting on the edge of their seats. The sounds were great, the straight-cut gears in the gearbox whining louder and higher as the car accelerates, with the staccato of an almost-no-exhaust V8, all piped through THX speakers is close to a religious experience, especially as very few of us got to hear this monster live.
Acting is on point, finally a movie where Christian Bale doesn't have to fake an American accent, Matt Damon pulls off a seemingly effortless Carrol Shelby - no doubt weeks and weeks of acting work and watching Shelby interviews went into it, but the whole movie just feels like one of those special ones, where the actors just enjoyed themselves.
Gemini Man (2019)
Your Michael Dudikoff VHS is here. Don't forget to rewind before returning.
I was wondering if some screenwriter found this script in a file cabinet that was locked since the early 90s, then the Trivia page cleared it up - essentially that is what happened here. You get your late-80s, early-90s B-action movie, but because the 80s stars are old now, instead of Michael Dudikoff you get Will Smith, Clive Owen stands in for Robert Davi, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead is subbing for whichever female wrestler you wanted to bang in the 90s.
*** SPOILER ***
The script is so linear you could've used a straightedge to write it - protagonist confesses to WWE girl he has only two fears - now you know what exact two things will happen to him later. They dangle this secret project of creating the perfect soldier instead of Will Jr. - one that doesn't feel pain and does not question orders - guess who shows up at the last minute for no reason? Weapons that throw 200lbs soldiers back 10 feet can apparently fired offhand without an inch of recoil and nobody gets hearing damage either, despite standing right near it.
Sunday Driver (2005)
Worth its price
I bought this DVD when it came out for my younger brother who is into cars. I watched it, and I thought to myself: i will never see this excellent documentary on any TV, no Discovery, no History, not even Reality. Why? For once, it isn't one of those number-crunchin' documentaries, you know: then this 12V compressor builds up over 3000psi of pressure in these special 27" shock absorbers under less than a second etc... For twice, there is a lot mentioned about illegal activities, generally drugs and violence, and get this - the interviewees are not presenting it in a negative manner! It's like they used to do it or maybe they are doing it while the film was made. My recommendation? Buy it, and watch it many times. The characters are lifelike, the cars are beautiful, and the ambient music is great. My favourite has to be Doc, the old paint guy with the stories. His best quote, while standing next to an Impala, about 1/2in off the ground: "I don't know why they call this a lowrider, it isn't low at all." Another: "On my '57, it lay so hard I wore the frame rails, everything! I mean, that car laid hard!"
Out for Justice (1991)
My favourite Seagal flick
I know, i know... many of my friends say "Nico" is his best film, but... well... i like this movie very much. It has a good soundtrack with Beastie Boys' "No sleep 'til Brooklyn" being just finely placed under the pictures where Seagal is seeking his enemy, played brilliantly by William Forsythe. Strangely, the two B-class actors make a good match as a villain and a cop trying to catch him, with many memorable lines to remember. May the plot be a little outdated, 'done already', it still works for me. The only Seagal movie coming close to this is "Under Siege" - it would've been my favourite if i saw that first. - Oh, if you like Erika Eleniak, go see "Under Siege" - no tits hanging around in this one :) Or were they... i was too much into rooting for Forsythe :) You'll understand...