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Leave the World Behind (2023)
The happening with foul mouthed Juilia Roberts
I guess it wouldn't be a Netflix movie without some unnecessary and awkwardly shoehorned racial tension. Putting that aside you have 56 year old Julia Roberts playing the mom of teenage kids, I just didn't buy it but she does get to drink buckets of wine and hate black people so there is that. If you can get past that you might have the beginnings of a decent "what's going on?!" type of movie. Unfortunately very little is going on, outside of meandering dialog from increasingly insufferable characters. Lots of expletives that feel forced to the point of making me cringe. The tension goes nowhere and kept reminding me of that 2008 M. Night Shyamalan gem "the happening". I noticed other reviews complaining about the abrupt ending but I spent the last hour of the movie hate watching and was relieved it was finally over. Sorry it's just another dud from Netflix with a terribly miscast Julia Roberts. The Obama's do have production credits on this movie so there is that.
The Minute You Wake Up Dead (2022)
Cole Hauser's toupee
Lazy effort to go with predictable and bad dialog. Morgan Freeman is simply too old to play the same character he has been playing for 40 years at this point in his career. The overall premise looks promising but it tries really hard to be serious while everyone is phoning it in. Jaimee Alexander is at least beautiful to look at but there is not enough of her in this to make it worth watching. I wanted to like this but it just goes from bad to worse to why would they waste time and money on this? I could literally see toupee glue in one of the early scenes where Cole Hauser is driving. I recommend avoiding this movie.