alandodd-80102 Reviews

The Gallows Pole (2023)

This is England 1765.

[8/10 · 2 June 2023]

I love Shane Meadows and mostly everything that he has done. If there is one tip i can give you, it'll be give it time. It gets better as the episodes go on.

There are rumours that Shane loves ad libbing and improvisation and you can see it in parts, but it's typical Meadows dialogue and always has that feeling of it could kick off at any second but if you give it time, it'll grow on you.

All we need is Woody, milky and Lol to turn up and it'll be the icing on the cake.

Gritty, grubby and sometimes a bit too sweary, it's definitely one that you have to give time. Maybe one day we will see the return of This is England, but until we do, this'll do.

Assassin Club (2023)

Avoid

[1/10 · 15 April 2023]

What a terrible film.

As an action movie fan, this looked fairly decent when I saw the trailer. It had all the signs that it could be good, fight scenes, some good actors and an idea of assassins targeting one another. What could go wrong?

Well.

The whole movie is a mess. It's completely dark and unwatchable. It's so dark and set at night but even the day time scenes are inside dark buildings. The camera work is awful and seems slightly sped up and on the fight scenes, you cannot see what's going on. The plot is ridiculous and the acting is bad, considering the 3 usually great actors on board. The actiing is especially from Rapace. What's her accent even meant to be? A terrible movie.