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Death in Paradise: Painkiller Thriller (2022)
Lousy writing
Either the manuscript makes no sense or the Saint Marie Police are amateurs.
1. No mention of how long the victim was dead. This would immediately put the nurse in the clear.
2. No checking the pills in the cabinet.
3. No checking the magnesium pills until the very end.
4. No wondering where the toothpaste is or testing if it contained aspirin.
5. No checking the victim's teeth to notice whether she had brushed her teeth.
6. No checking for indentations on the writing block to read the letter. Instead relying on a near-impossible zoom on a camera.
7. No proof at all - just speculation.
Cats (2019)
New Concept: Film and Musical Crossover
Cats is a poem by TS Elliot published in 1939. It was later converted into a hit musical, by Andrew Lloyd Webber, keeping most of the poem intact. This gives the musical a nice contrast between the 80s music and 30s writing.
Unfortunately, this film has to be understood by American millenials, so a bit of rewriting was done to lower the needed IQ to understood it.
A musical needs excellent dancers and singers. A film needs excellent actors. This film has none of the above.
Taylor Swift is an average singer and certainly no Elaine Paige. Only reason for her in the film is to sell cinema tickets.
James Corden delivered a remarkably poor performance.
Judy Dench is completely misplaced.
The new extra songs were naturally awful as expected.
All in all it was okay. I doubt I will watch again.
Young Wallander: Episode 1 (2020)
United States of Netflox Strikes Again
Having, for no reason at all, bought the rights to a highly popular Swedish series, Netflix decides to teleport and timetravel the young Wallander from 1960s to a 2020 Sweden where everything is written in Swedish, but everyone speaks Netfloxamerian and more than half the population comes from a virtual African-Netfloxamerian parallel universe.
This series has no rights to exist on its own. The people who watched the original will fell nothing but spite. I bet it will be removed from Netflix soon, rebranded and added back as Young Whatever.
Black Mirror: Striking Vipers (2019)
Boring
Impressive how they can make an hour seem like four.
Original idea so 2 stars.
Death in Paradise: Missing a Body? (2011)
Easter Egg
This episode is a bit different: We see the beach shooting scene in the intro, what was supposed to have happened. And later we see the same scene how Megan remembers it. Did she fire one or two shots?
Brilliant Easter Egg for the observant viewer and yet it does not really help identifying the murderer.
Really clever story.
Death in Paradise: The Impossible Murder (2017)
Major Plothole
So you have been fatally wounded and want to protect your killer.
The obvious way to do this is to walk into the restaurant with the knife in your hand saying you had an accident and die there. Or imaybe cut your own throat in the restaurant in front of witnesses.
But no, you immediatly think up an elaborate plan involving washing the knife, carry your sandwich to your room, faking a robbery gone wrong, hiding your knife, watch and bloody scarf...
Excellent style, terrible writing.
Death in Paradise: Beyond the Shining Sea: Part Two (2019)
The End
The BRILLIANT series created by Robert Thorogood has ended with 8.1 being the last episode that remotely adheres to the concept.
The most important part of the concept has always been to reveal just enough details for the clever viewer to determine the killer before the detective. The grand reveal is made for the viewer - not for the possible murder suspects. Okay, there were a few episodes with Kriss Marshall that broke the concept, but never five in a row.
There is nothing interesting about the show anymore. Just another mainstream show with cast being replaced on a regular basis.
The Quick and the Undead (2006)
Refreshingly Original
This is a cult zombie movie done Western style. If you don't like zombie movies you are most likely going to hate this.
If you on the other hand love George A. Romero's epic movies: Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead you may enjoy this.
The movies had no budget, so naturally everything is done as cheap as possible. In my opinion zombie movies are supposed to be made this way.
The lead actor, Clint Glenn, does a very good job heavily inspired by Clint Eastwood in the classic spaghetti Western the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
The Western-style approach is refreshingly original to the zombie genre.