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The Gray Man (2022)
Good actionflick, stiff acting by younger castmembers
Since when do you watch an action movie for the "believable scenes"? It's a great entertaining movie with good action sequences. Gosling delivers as well as Chris Evans, Ana could have used more screentime. The youngest castmembers are the ones who didn't really deliver in acting. You really feel the difference when they come on screen.
Beau Séjour (2016)
Really nice series, unsatisfying ending
From a Belgian's perspective, I wouldn't say that I'm a fan of Belgian fiction. Most of the times I'm horrified by the acting and the meaningless plots. However, I really liked the premise of this series. The acting is not bad neither and the way the story unfolds leaving a cliff hanger at the end of each episode is very very well done. So far, so good. That is, until the last episode. Like mentioned by some, the ending was unsatisfactory for me because it left a lot of open questions.
As a minor character, I could still but Marcus as a killer, I thought about it at a certain moment but I shot it down because: 1/ you should have a quite strong motive to kill not one, but two of your daughters (even if it was a stepdaughter, but still, right?) 2/ crime of passion that had a lot of premeditated signatures: the cleaning of the bodies, no traces left 3/ the murder of Claudia De Wit wasn't elaborated enough. I felt that there should have been one more episode before the finale to tie at least some loose ends up it might have been better. Or to drop unnecessary red herrings (Ines being impregnated by Kato's dad? Cyril stealing grandma's money? Luc deceiving his wife?) and use the time to exploit the reasons why.
But still all in all, first Belgian series that I actually liked!
Love, Death & Robots: Ice Age (2019)
Simpsons IRL
Like a bunch of people suggested: Simpsons did it before. The idea is copy pasted, the execution is done quite nicely. But 6,5/7 due to the fact it's not an original idea.