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The Mountain Between Us (2017)
A movie with 1h of good scenes and 45min of boring scenes
A good movie until the puma appears (min 30), despite the fact that both should be dead or seriously injured after the plane crash.
After that, the plot is insanely boring and nothing new happens until 1h and 20min of film. There is no character development for any of them until they hang out in the cabin. Also the dog serves no purpose in the plot other than to appeal to dog lovers.
The movie fails in my opinion as well in showing the difficulty of the journey they had made. Sure, we can see that they are tired and everything but they are not looking crazily for food or water. Looking at the viewer point of view, the movie does not portrait that their lives are really in danger. I was not worried about their lives because the movie was somewhat not thrilling.
After their rescue (1h and 25min), the movie is good again. The other people do not understand what they have been trough and both start to show their real personalities. A very good ending ;) Both gave their lives to save each other out there and you do not cross a person like that every day. So if you find someone like that, do not let her go.
Knightfall (2017)
The title shoud be more like "Queen's boyfriend and The evil plots of De Nogaret"
A let down, no doubt. (Spoilers of the first 4 episodes)
I was excited when I saw the announcement. In think the crusades and the knights Templar period in history is not portrayed often in movies and since it was from the History channel I was delighted. However, I was delighted only in the first episode (more like the first half of it). After that the cliché plots and intrigues settled in and did not leave.
The master Templar is the King's best friend and has an affair with the queen. They are completely in love (isn't it so nice for them? Well, no. Why not? Is it because she is married with the king? :O Does this mean that she cannot divorce and stay with the knight templar? :'( Their love cannot be fully fulfilled, what a shocker). I like when they talk and stare to each other for minutes in court (right in front of the King) and seconds later the king says "Yo Man, can you talk to her? She won't have sex with me. Can you help me?" I mean, what?
Then there is a master conspirator, le De Nogaret. That, not only likes the king's daughter, but 1 - does not like Jews (plots to kill them all); 2 - does not like the pope (plots to kill the pope); 3 - does not like the spain prince (plots to kill the spain prince).
I mean, he is the superhero of his time by doing all this without anyone even suspect. Le Nogaret, the superschemer!! In this last episode it was ridiculous. When he was poisoned I knew all the plot of the episode already and it happened exactly as I expected. Nothing new, just a cliché and very boring episode.
Overall it is entertaining even with the cliché plot but I was expecting so much better. To see shows like this where we learn nothing, I prefer to see Gordon Ramsey scream to people.