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Outlaw Johnny Black (2023)
Entertaining but doesn't know what it wants to be
Well... that was a watch that leaves me baffled. And I'm a bit sad...
I hoped this one to be more like Black dynamite, but it really ended up confusing me. I actually really liked the more dramatic and traditional western stuff more and those parts are strong 7-8 to me. And I really liked those over the top hilarious stuff, and they were even higher, strong 8-8.5. But this movie mixed those two together the way I can't really like this as a whole movie. So it ends up 6-6.5 in the end. That's really a shame. This movie should have been more "real" or it should have been a proper spoof, but as it is it does not work.
The Night Manager (2016)
Quite an uneven but exciting miniseries
Just a quick and short review of the 8-episode version of the Night Manager.
I don't know how they managed to make this so uneven. Or maybe it was partly because of the 8-episode editing? The two first episodes were quite good, although I didn't really buy the lightning quick "love" affair. After the two first episodes came 3 so vague episodes that I almost gave up. 3 episodes full of browsing around the villa and not really anything interesting happening, not arms dealings, not really any tension. And then came the rest of the show, last 3 episodes which were really great. The tension was there, there was a nice callback to the first episode.
So it pains me to say this, even though the feeling after watching the show was really positive (8), the show really was not as good as the feeling it gave. So because of that the real score is more of a low 7 than solid 8.
And after analysing the series more, I'm not really sure Hiddleston was the right choice for Pine. He was not intimidating enough, I didn't really believe he was a tough guy and for I didn't see why Roper would have been so keen to take him under his wing. I would have preferred a more masculine but at the same time charming actor.
But that's just me. :)