MetalNickA Reviews

Squid Game (2021– )

Some of Netflix's Best

[10/10 · 4 October 2021]

The Netflix subscription is $9 but the therapy you'll need after this show is priceless.

To sum it up as briefly as possible, it's like a sundae made of scoops of Shawshank Redemption, The Purge, and the first Saw movie, with a little bit of Star Wars sprinkled on top.

Moxie (I) (2021)

Great movie

[9/10 · 11 March 2021]

If you're upset or offended by the message in this movie, you're part of the problem; plain and simple. Coming from a straight white male. Yeah the dialogue can be a bit unnatural sometimes but it's a movie. I would have liked to see some more closure at the end though.

Eli (I) (2019)

Good concept but poorly executed

[5/10 · 19 October 2019]

I saw the trailer on Netflix about 2 weeks before it came out, and thought it seemed cool. A horror movie about a kid with some "strange illness" seeking unorthodox treatment, but the place is haunted and he gets terrorized by ghosts. At least that's what you're led to believe.

I didn't think it was slow, I felt the pace was appropriate. It doesn't take long before all the freaky stuff happens. There are some jumps that are obnoxiously loud. And then there's that weird girl outside who is oddly low-key obsessed with him.

The last like 10 minutes of the movie is when it hits the fan, and you find out what's actually going on. And it's not what you think, at all. Spoiler: he isn't sick, and at first it appears he is possessed and the final stage of his "treatment" appears to be an exorcism. When this happened I was genuinely surprised, and honestly they could've left it at that and it would've made a great movie, but then they took a step further; he isn't just possessed, he is literally a spawn of satan. Now it's just ridiculous. And then it turns out the girl is also a spawn of satan and they ride off into the night, the end.

It would've been a fantastic movie if they didn't take it that extra step. I thought they were going for a "demonic possession from the victim's perspective" kind of deal, but no. It's a shame because that would've made a much better movie.

Good acting from the kid and Sadie.

Insatiable (2018–2019)

Definitely not what it seems

[10/10 · 15 October 2019]

I started watching it just because it was new and I didn't have anything else to watch. After watching the trailer, I deduced that it is about a fat girl who, due to an injury, suddenly becomes skinny and decides to get payback on everyone who made fun of her. The first 2 or 3 episodes are like that, but then it brings you into a much deeper and darker story that just because you are suddenly good-looking, you are still you, and your problems do not magically disappear just by being skinny. As much of a cliche as it sounds, looks aren't everything and real beauty is on the inside, and good looks wont help you if you are ugly on the inside. It also demonstrates how society treats you differently based on how attractive you are. After watching the whole 2 seasons, it's one of my favorite Netflix shows.

Season 2 starts off kind of weird, but it gets so much better. We need a third season!

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)

Good, but not the best.

[8/10 · 15 October 2019]

I liked this movie and I'm glad they made it. But it's definitely my least favorite installment of the BB franchise. Everybody's acting was amazing. The cinematography was phenomenal. I wasn't expecting to see too much action (that's not what the point of this movie was about), but I still felt like it dragged a bit. The plot was somewhat weak, and there was a lot of long, drawn out scenes, and by the end of the movie all I thought was, it took a 2 hour movie just to have Jesse do basically one thing: Get money and leave.

I could've done without a lot of the flashbacks. While some were necessary for the story, they are ridiculously long, and it just takes away from the story by dropping you into another flashback in the middle of a tense present-time scene. They bore you with slow dialogue and long pauses between character's actions, mostly just to tell you things you already know. Yeah Todd is a bad person, we already established that, but literally half the movie is just him and Jesse bumbling around doing Todd stuff. I don't care about that, I'm here to see Jesse make a new life for himself *after* the ending of BB.

And fat Todd. Seriously, they couldn't have him lose a couple pounds? When they first showed him through the gate at the top of the pit, you could tell he was larger but it seemed like they were trying to cover him up and show as little as possible. Understandable, but then they went ahead and made half the movie about him and owned it.