kcbrianpowell Reviews

Mysterious Circumstance: The Death of Meriwether Lewis (2022)

No homework. Pushing out work for the sake of work.

[2/10 · 24 March 2023]

In film class at college... I've seen better. I'm not sure what the script looks like... But execution is delivered. Living in the early 1800s... Everybody is clean.

I felt like I was watching a reenactment. Accents and some of the characters... Misplaced. Costuming, accurate... But definitely not fitting for sleeping in the woods or living in the time. For where they were at.

Script and dialogue... did not captured my attention. I constantly wondered where things were going. So sorry.

I really wanted to like this movie. Have studied Lewis and Clark as a kid and have copies of their journals but this movie seems to have disconnected from history. Almost like somebody got a script and a cheap budget and put a film together. It just did not fit. It did not seem believable and it was a bit of a labor to watch.

Battlefield Earth (2000)

L Ron Hubbard meets Hollywood.Big Screenplay

[1/10 · 16 July 2021]

I'm sure it was an entertaining read as a book. And follower, John Travolta, fell obligated to see his master memorialized on the "big screen ". I have not even read any of the reviews for this movie on this website. But I will bet my next 10 paychecks, and yours, that there are parallel observations.

Ok. Nothing fit. The acting and directing... Left a lot to be desired. A lot of assumptions were made that the viewers would already know or had a knowledge foundation to draw from when understanding details. The music score, it really didn't fit some of the scenes. Details were murky. And in a post apocalyptic movie... Does everyone need to be wearing canvas colored clothing and sport long disheveled hairdos?

The plot was simplistic. Honestly this seemed like Cliff Notes to other movies were the captive becomes the savior. This movie was at best a mix between Mad Max meets The Postman.

As a researcher, I drew more from learning about the author of the book that this movie was based on. Now... That is a real story!