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Expend4bles (2023)
Some great fight scenes
Yes the effects are terrible, the acting awful, and me and the wife guessed the ending with a good 45 minutes left. But Jason Statham is reliable as always, and gets the tone just right.
Fans of his films will recognise his usual character (sullen, moody and lots of baggage) but he puts the right amount of tongue in cheek to pull it off and his final fight with Iko Uwais is as good as cinema martial arts gets.
This entry does lack the star power of earlier ones but if they do decide to let Statham take the lead, and the focus moves away from ageing action stars and onto international martial artists, they might have a few more left in them.
Andor (2022)
Easily the best SW Disney have done so far
While previous Disney+ live-action SW shows have been either Ok or awful, Andor is in a different league. World building on a par with The Expanse and FireFly with memorable scenes and good story progression in every episode. An always convincing Diego Luna is good enough not just to carry the show but hold his own against in-form Andy Serkis, Fiona Shaw and Stellan Skarsgard. Denise Gough and Anton Lesser are the best of the baddies and both terrifying. The script is intelligent, provoking and has a lot of heart. Very much looking forward to series 2 now I know it leads to events in Rogue One. The picture it paints of life under the empire is both chilling and compelling. Tony Gilroy and the three directors involved have a done a great job in conceiving and executing the story of Cassion Andor.
The Equalizer: Re-Entry (1987)
Really not as good as I remember.
So the dad uses a box from Steve Buscemi to duplicate a stolen security key to pull a heist. Why not use the one they stole? The plutonium, revealed as the score, is kept in glass lab jars behind a plastic screen. Hilarious. Edward Woodward is often terrible.
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
Better than most reviews claim
Joel Edgerton doing the whole thing as Richard Burton, Ben Mendelsohn in eyeliner and Christian Bale at his earnest best - what's not to like? I saw it was on TV and watched out of curiosity then was hooked in about 10 minutes. It seems to have annoyed a lot of Christians for not sticking to the facts(!) but I found the revisions to the plot quite interesting and it was more believable than the book
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Planet of the Amazon Women (1979)
A good one
Say what you like about Gil Gerard but that man can ride a horse
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: Kill Chain (2014)
Nice to see Hollis again
But having to play McGee as an absolute tool did make me feel sorry for Sean Murray
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: Spinning Wheel (2015)
Gold
Abby hacks a motion tracker and gets what a guy typed before he died. I've got to change my t shirt now
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: The Artful Dodger (2015)
This is a terrible episode
Abby gets a name off a blood spatter and there's a fingerprint match on her screen
McGee goes undercover with an evidence bag.
And theres a bug in the painting. what?
Awful
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: Past, Present, and Future (2013)
Magic Cheese
In one scene they raid an apartment looking for a shooter. They find the tenant dead long enough for McGee to comment on the smell and she looks like a zombie - and Gibbs CHECKS HER PULSE HA HA HA
Beowulf (2007)
Awesome - simply breathtaking
Saw this at the London IMAX on Monday and although I had heard good things from various websites about this film I hadn't expected to be quite so impressed - and moved - by the story and visuals Robert Zemeckis spent so much time and effort bringing to the big screen. Aided by screenwriters Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary he has taken a story that, on paper, could appear thin and one dimensional and crafted a tale of excitement, pathos and beauty while offering real insight into what it takes to be a hero and the price to pay for being human. The character of Beowulf is shown as a young man being arrogant and boastful already assured of his status as a hero. He even criticises Christianity for replacing real heroes with 'weeping martyrs'. It takes an older, wiser Beowulf to realise that to truly take his place among the immortals he will have to sacrifice everything in some cases giving up the very things he took from others along the way. The characters of Grendal and his Mother have also been revised so that rather than being the purely evil monstrous forms of the poem they are now a necessary part of the world they inhabit and only allowed to flourish due to the failings and weaknesses of men. Grendal's Mother may give birth to demons but in doing so she also creates heroes! If you can get to see this film in IMAX/3D format I would thoroughly recommend it not only do you get a great film but you will also get the chance to see the technical achievement of today's 3D technology which, when applied to Beowulf's sweeping vistas and intense action sequences, serve to draw you in and really make you feel part of the action. The CGI, by the way, is top notch.
Munich (2005)
Why Spielberg is still the best
I haven't been too impressed with Spielbergs recent output after being left distinctly underwhelmed by WotW and Catch Me If You Can but this film is absolutely incredible. It takes a truly great director with the deftest of touches to be able to create a film that manages to get across the horror and pain of violent acts and the impact they have on those who commit them as well as the victims, while at the same time refusing to take sides or to be sympathetic to either point of view. The violent scenes are explicit without being gratuitous, shockingly real and, quite rightly, repulsive. Spielberg has said that if he does this film right, both sides will hate it and it's true - this film seems to act as a mirror in which anyone who has an opinion going in will be forced to face that opinion and their own conscience. Eric Bana is superb as the increasingly tortured soul tasked with serving his country, at first willingly - his doubt and paranoia growing over the course of the film. Compare this to the one-sided Black Hawk Down and it is clear why Spielberg is THE greatest director of our time. I am writing this days after seeing the film and it still with me, playing on my mind. A great example of how powerful cinema can be when done properly