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I.S.S. (2023)
Could have been so much better
The premise was absolutely awesome. Sadly, the execution was as if someone had written it during a bathroom break.
What kind of nuclear level war was it that had the American govt's space program survived?
Why was it so important for both govts to assume control of the ISS if the world was coming to an end?
If there was no one on Earth to guide them at the end, how would they have made it to Earth safely?
The fight between the captains was absolutely poor. The US captain actually walks in with a weapon only to throw it away and get killed by the same weapon? Wtf? The drill wound wasn't even deep enough to kill him either.
Why is there a sharp knife inside the ISS? Surely they know of the hazards of pointy objects? Guess not.
El club de los lectores criminales (2023)
Lazy af
This movie is pretty much Scream + I Know What You Did Last Summer. It's lazy and predictable writing with no character development and a dragged out climax coupled with a hugely unnecessary ending.
- After the professor's death, why would the police not get involved? Okay so it's just ONE death and presumed suicide? Why don't they get involved after the SECOND death/disappearance? Surely all the children have families and so even if our book club members don't call the police, what about the univesity in general? Surely when you hav emultiple killings, you'd have police in the campus
- What about CCTV? We're lead to believe that people have iPhones and WhatsApp and an "influencer" but no CCTV footage anywhere?
- When you're dubbed an "influencer", surely you can leverage that to trace the killers with the help of your followers
- These kids never have homework? Or lectures to attend? Or assignments to complete? Are they living on campus during some kind of break?
- Why is it that whenever the killer appears. There is liiterally NO OTHER STUDENT OR TEACHER EVER anywhere? It's a freaking university, bro.
- When the book club members start dying, once again, the police aren't involved to interview potential suspects to establish timelines? What about when the guy is murdered outside the bar? Do they not have cameras there?
- The Emo being knocked out and not being killed just ruined the entire movie. KILL. KILL. KILL. SPARE. Wtf?
- "The clown is...." All you had to say was "It's..."
- Angela literally watches Virginia/Alicia burn to death in front of her eyes. Her survival would have been apparent. The final scene is a year later, in the space of 365 days, you had no idea that Virginia/Alicia survived?
- What was up with the ending scene? They get out of class and all of a sudden, all the other students disappear in a puff of smoke as the camera pans? Wtf. Lazy af man.
Cobweb (2023)
Oh come on!
While Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr absolutely nailed their roles as creepy asf parents, I feel that there was a tremendous amount of potential that was squandered on this film.
- If they had a child, wouldn't they have been at the hospital to deliver the baby? Other people would know that they had one
- The parents tell Peter that there was a girl who lived in the house who disappeared while trick or treating. Why not stick to a more believable story like "your younger sister"?
- "Why don't we have pictures of my sister?" "We threw it all away because we were too upset/sad"
- Why is their daughter in that little wall crevice to begin with?
- How is she even alive? Do the parents secretly feed her? Do they care for her? How old was she when she was locked up? How can she speak fluent english?
- When they realize that Sarah is talking to Peter, instead of saying that it's Peter's overactive imagination, why not just have him sleep with the parents in THEIR ROOM so Sarah can't speak to him?
- Speaking of Sarah, is she a ghost? A supernatural creature? A human? It's never explained. The way she is able to murder people and crawl on walls shows freaking strength and whatnot. Certainly makes it seem like she's supernatural but she's a real being who is locked up too so which one is it?
- Speaking of strength, she is able to decapitate a person easily but is not able to bust out of a dry wall?
- Why is Peter still living in the same house in the end? Sarah is still locked up? Wouldn't it make sense to just move out of there or kill Sarah if she's a demon etc?
I honestly love these types of movies where a seemingly supernatural event like knocking turns out to be an actual person. It's a very unique kind of twist but Cobweb just fell rushed to get to the ending without any kind of build to it. Okay so a girl went missing while trick or treating. Where did she go missing? Any suspects? You know? All of that was never explored including how the family ended up in that house to start with.
Night Hunter (2018)
So much potential
This, like many movies had so much potential. I did not know Henry Cavill would be in it and it was a pleasamt surprise to have him speaking in his natural British tone. While the twist of the antagnist being twins was quite nice, some things just stood out
- How is it that the police database search was not able to pinpoint that Simon is a twin?
- How did a package make its way into the precint without any kind of security scanning? Surely the scan would have picked up the baby inside
- Speaking of having a freaking baby inside the box dsiguised as a bomb, there were no holes in it. How the heck would the baby be breating? For the convenience of the plot, the baby is sleeping inside the box the entire time and only wakes up once the box opens?
- The retired army guy is making all sorts of military grade weaponry but doesn't ask any questions nor watch the news to know that he's aiding a kidnapper?
- Why were the surviving girls never interviewed? They could have shed light on what "Simon" was doing
- Why did the black guy help Simon escape anyway? I get that his baby was stolen but it still doesn't make sense for him to help Simon escape
- Is there no one keeping a lookout on the prisoners? Surely someone would have caught the black guy helping Simon escape
- The actress portraying Lara did a terrific job. Hated Lara's stupid behavior, LIke dude, you were rescued by the police but you have the audacity to say that they do nothing.
- Meanwhile Lara and Cooper go all over town castrating paedophiles? A former judge and a girl? How would a former judge have anyn knowledge (he's old) to build trackers etc
- Speaking of trackers, why not just have an actual tracker instead of one that only works when cellphones are nearby?
- Simon 1 wears the hearing aid and is supposedly deaf and when they switch placs, Simon 2 isn't wearing the aids. During the initialy scenes, Rachel asks him if he wants an attorney and to say no if he understood. He says no. So he's not deaf.
- Is there no cctv footage at all of the car being blown up or even who brought the "bomb" package to the precint?
Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
Not the finale it deserved
I'm going to quote another person's review and say: If you've seen Insidious & Insidious: Chapter 2 congratulations! You've already seen this movie.
This, in actuality was exactly the same plot except both father & son are now much older and have unresolved resentment for some unknown reason. The wife has also gone ahead and divorced the father. They have a daughter now too, who has just ONE line and just about 10 seconds of screen time and is NEVER seen or heard from again.
The proper action actually starts in the final 15 minutes when both, father & son are in "The Further" and the action merely ends when the father tells the son to go while he holds the red door shut.
There is no explanation as to why the red faced demon or "the man with fire on his face" is after Dalton and all Dalton has to do quite literally is to paint the door and then paint black all over it.
The end.
Interceptor (2022)
Intercepted my day.
Only a handful of movies have the potential to take the cake for being horribly bad. This one however, beats the competition by miles. Here is my breakdown:
1. JJ is assigned to this interceptor station because of secretly recording and shaming a senior officer for his behavior? Wouldn't a punishment be more degrading like cleaning the bathrooms in a jail?
2. Kessel is being paid in USD - surely after 16 cities are destoyed, the value of the USD would plummet and be worthless even in a secret Swiss bank account
3. Sinking the station was Kessel's "insurance policy" - why? Why not sink the station so that your missiles could hit their targets to begin with?
4. Beaver tells Kessel that you shouldn't play around with JJ and just shoot her in the head but when JJ is using the laptop on the outside, Beaver points a gun to her head. JUST. SHOOT. HER?
5. When Rahul overrides the sinking protocol, can you not just go ahead and override the override and undo the reopen the hatch to quicken the sinking again?
6. Kessel has been planning this for 6 years. He even knew about JJ's training. He could have eliminated her by downing the helicopter she was arriving in keeping in mind that she could be a problem
7. Why didn't Kessel just gas the control room?
8. Why did Kessel keep her alive and tied up anyway? It served no purpose. They were in the control room and had all the cards in their hands. There was no need to keep JJ and Rahul alive
9. Why is there a trap door to enter the control room from the sea?
10. Kessel goes so far as to having people in JJ's father's retirement home. Again, you wouldn't need to do all this if you had just shot her in the head the first chance you got.
Hell Fest (2018)
This made me mad
The problem with watching this in 2023 is that I'm comparing it with actual human behavior in this day and age. This movie made me want to throw something at the screen because of how much potential it had.
1. So a bunch of people have been murdered by this "traveling show" in the past but the authorities are still allowing this to go on without any kind of security involved. Metal detectors are not something to be considered as "secure" please. There are literally zero security cameras and zero floodlights (because at an event like this if you want to find someone in the dark, you gotta have floodlights, duh)
2. The OH-SO-TYPICAL 911 call that doesn't connect even though literal seconds ago she is texting the killer who is using Gavin's phone
3. Brooke & Natalie trying to get OUT of the place by GOING INTO the Hell labyrinth one of the attractions? Do you not see how ridiculous that sounds? It was even more ridiculous watching it unravel on screen
4. It's a full-fludged set up with many attractions and mazes but the gang is NEVER surrounded by others? I.e. There is nobody else in the attractions whenever they enter? Tf
5. Natalie is asked to identify the killer but she goes with "he's wearing a mask" but then later when Taylor is being set up into the gulliotine, Natalie recognizes the killer's shoes. Why not just do that before?
6. A real ax is brought into the maze but all other items are props. Instead of hitting the killer weakly with props, why not just grab the real ax and inflict some damage? I'm not saying chop the hands or head with a single blow but they could severely injure the killer. There was a scene where I even saw a wood piece that could have easily been broken into two pieces to use as a stabbing weapon
7. Speaking of severely injuring, the killer was stabbed and left a pool of blood. There would have been a trail leading to where and how he escaped. His car that he uses to go home would have been drenched in his own blood. What's more is that they could have had forensics sweep the place and gotten a DNA match for the killer
8. The first person who is killed in front of Natalie is just screaming random nonesense. She does not have a costume on either. She is alone. Normal human behaviour would dictate that you call for help by atleast telling them "this is not part of the play" or seeking refuge with Natalie like getting behind her or something
9. When the killer has been stalking them all night, the least they could do is ask the security guard if this is normal or even allowed. Like how the security guy tells her that they aren't allowed in the bathrooms
10. Speaking of stalking, how is the killer able to get the "Other" mask at all? He is a disgruntled former employee? Because he seems to know his way around the mazes etc
11. The killer had been using Gavin's phone. The police could have tracked the phone which quite possibly would have led to the killer in his house
12. During the final scenes, people start fleeing. While that is something normal, my brain was like "bro, this is just ONE killer and there are hundreds of people that can overpower him and contain him or atleast take his damn mask off"
13. The killer returns home seemingly unscathed to his daughter like nothing ever happened when he was stabbed and lost so much blood
14. The typical "killer teleports from one place to another undetected" is just getting boring now.
Malignant (2021)
What the
In the immortal words of Chris Evans: "What the s****?
Based on the trailer and description, I legit thought this was a horror film that's got to do with demons and possession but boy was I wrong. It's actually about a girl named Madison who suffers from "teratoma" - here's what I understood/questioned:
1) So we see at the beginning of the movie how there are electrical disruptions and radio static. How in the hell does a teratoma formation have psychic powers that he's able to flicker the lights or call on cellphones or speak over a radio?
2) During the jail cell scene, Gabriel bursts out of the back of Madison's skull like a demon and later, he shrinks back into the head and the skull seals itself off again? Wtf
3) Madison's parents are recording her on her 9th birthday where they ask her who Gabriel is but fail to ever take her to the doctor's. The teratoma would show up in an x-ray for sure
4) How does Madison get superpowers when Gabriel takes over? She's not so strong but is able to kill everyone in the jail cell without a scratch?
5) So with Gabriel possessing her, she is now an expert in operating firearms and performing martial arts?
I think over the course of my 33 years, I've seen almost every type of scary movie so much so that I didn't even flinch through Evil Dead Rises and now this. This movie made me laugh.
The Rental (2020)
What?
Two couples decide to go on a vacation. Mina finds it offensive that her application was refused but the friend's wasn't. Tony (the guy renting out the cabin to them) mentions that this house belongs to his brother but the brother "doesn't use it"
Mina cheats on Josh in the shower only to realize later on that their acts have been recorded on a wireless camera inside the showerhead and they all end up dead.
- Why would you bring your dog to a rental vacation spot when the person has a no animals rule? It's literally for the weekend
- If the wireless cameras are connected with "Wi-Fi", shouldn't they appear on the phone when trying to connect to Wi-Fi?
- Who was the masked man, actually? Was he Taylor's brother? Why would he kill Taylor in the bathtub?
- Mina obviously had issues with letting things go. Had she not "confronted" the guy, everything would have been fine. They could have posted negative reviews etc AFTER their trip and mentioned the hidden cameras but nooo. Mina goes around confronting Tony leading Josh to beat the crap out of Tony.
- They all had phones but nobody bothered calling 911 simply because Mina and Charlie feared that their little romp would be exposed.
- Michelle appears to be the only one hell-bent on using drugs.
- Would have made sense to take two cars.
The Tall Man (2012)
Tf did I just watch?
This one certainly left me scratching my head for the wrong reasons. Netflix recommended it and I should know by now that whenever Netflix does that, it's usually nonsense.
A woman named Julia loses her husband whom she can't procreate with so she abducts children citing that the families of Cold Rock cannot provide a good life for them and ships the children off to other rich families. The movie seems to glorify and justify child trafficking which is ridiculous.
The court doesn't sentence Julia either because they believe that she will reveal the location of where the "children are buried" which is absurd.
But what really got me mad was that she had abducted a kid named David and was literally "pretending" to be her mother when her real mother was alive and well? Why didn't David's real mother simply call the cops when she was certain that David (her biological child) was in Julia's possession?
There is no "Tall Man" which was a huge letdown.
Fall (2022)
Ugh
This movie had SO MUCH potential to be a nail-biter but a few obvious things just ruined it.
1) Vultures do not eat people who are alive
2) Becky's husband dies and she hasn't climbed since then but then Hunter wants Becky to come climbing a huge & rusty af abandoned tower when Becky is clearly out of practice and is literally being forced into such a situation
3) The dad reaches out to Hunter to get her to snap Becky out of depression. Why wouldn't he attempt to call Hunter and Becky BOTH? What about Hunter's parents trying to call her? Or Hunter's "boyfriend" trying to reach her?
4) Why is there only one bag of water and food?
5) Why is there no power bank or extra drone batteries?
6) Why is there only friggin 50 feet of rope when climbing a 2000 feet tower? Wtaf
7) It didn't occur to them to scan for traffic when flying the drone to the diner or atleast fly at a higher altitude until the drone crossed the road atleast
8) At no point in time did the father bother tracking the daughter's phone when it's off. Isn't it an official missing persons case if a person has disappeared for over 24 hours?
9) Why don't people tell their friends/family where they're going? Even if it's on a random adventure? The whole "shoot now, post later" culture is pretty retarded
10) What if they shot the flare gun into their car so that it caught fire and authorities got there?
11) Fly the drone up with your phone tied or strapped to it to see if you're getting signals at 2000 feet high which you will get obviously because in this modern day and age, there's phone signals on mountains for crying out loud.
But my most favorite and this is just my way of thinking:
12) Instead of dropping your phone while trying to send a text; tie or strap it to the drone and fly the drone down to the ground instead of across a friggin road. Once the message is sent, fly the drone back up and enjoy your unshattered phone. Duh.
Army of Thieves (2021)
Lame af
Pointless prequel & mind-numbingly lame.
Rheingold - "least complex of the three which means it's the least guarded" Uh, no. Every safe was guarded without any kind of CCTV and biometrics. The safe in "Army Of The Dead" was much MUCH more secure.
The Valkyrie supposedly held 40m & The Siegfried, 100m. But they never take ALL of the money. They only focus on the larger bills which is probably the most ridiculous plot point in the entire movie.
Wrath Of Man was much better if you talk about bank heists considering how elaborate it was. The team in Army Of Thieves has a "hacker" who is not even able to do any "great hacking" per se.
While I may be rusty about the movie in general, I wondered the following: So Hans Wagner has created 4 safes. He creates a 5th and locks himself inside it. Nobody is ever able to open the 5th one. How are the other four opened? Do they have a key? If yes, wouldn't it be simpler to just steal the key than have a "safe cracker"? If they didn't have a key, how were they opened and how was money initially kept in there to begin with?
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Legacy destroyed
I'd been wanting to watch this movie for so long and by the end, I was left shaking my head in disgust & disappointment. Below are some things I'd like to point out:
1) This movie was unnecessary and singlehandedly destroyed the legacy of The Matrix trilogy
2) Hollywood needs to stop casting Priyanka Chopra in films. Go for TV serials instead
3) So many flashbacks to the old films were unnecessary. It's as if the team wanted the new generation to "get in on" the Matrix hype train. For people of my generation who watched the trilogy, we only needed to watch the movies again once just to recap
4) For the last few years I've been seeing Hollywood thrusting women in our faces. Women now are suddenly more powerful than men and are "better protagonists". - Wonder Woman 1984, Red Notice, Tomb Raider come to mind.
5) The role switch of now Trinity being "The One" was below the belt because the entire trilogy is based on Neo's quest to becoming The One i.e. Realizing that he had to make a choice by saving Morpheus and saving Zion. What this movie does is just ignore ALL of that which is ironic because we see flashbacks and scenes from the trilogy throughout the film. He also saved Trinity from certain death & "moved like the agents do" which Trinity had seen for the first time
6) WTF did they do with Morpheus? Actually saying "blah blah blah" felt majorly insulting to Fishburne's Morpheus. Morpheus was pretty ignoble and ignorable like "stfu already"
7) "Bullet time"? Really? Really?!
8) Jonathan Groff was an "okay" Agent Smith. Personally, Hugo Weaving cannot be replaced and should not be replaced. Groff's Smith kept grunting and growling; something that I do not recall Hugo's Smith ever doing because he was a machine and he makes everything look effortless.
9) With the Wachowski Brothers now Sisters, I get why feminism was continually shoved down our throats but this movie went too overboard. Bugs, Priyanka AND Trinity? You could have just made a Charlie's Angels sequel (where OBVIOUSLY Charlie would be a woman, too) Yeesh.
Dos (2021)
What the hell?
What the hell was this honestly? A father is deranged and wants to reunite their children and sews them up together? How did he even find them? How did he even drug them in the presence of others? How did he get them both to a presumably remote area with nothing but snow for miles? When they separate themselves using the letter opener, there is no significant blood loss occurring at all that the woman would bleed out and pass out in the snow. Why would you continue to walk injured in the snow in the first place? How was this movie ever green-lit with THAT ending? Please stop making movies now, Netflix. God.
Hypnotic (2021)
Hyp-- No thanks.
1) Therapists are generally not allowed to approach their clients in a public place unless the client themselves does so first
2) Living as Doctor Meade and Julian is illogical because what would he use as his social security number?
3) How many patients Dr. Meade is treating is never mentioned apart from Jenn & the hair eating lady who just conveniently happens to know where Det. Rollins resides.
4) The good hypnotherapist adds a "counter" so that if Meade says "my love", all his triggers are broken. It would have made a ton of sense if the counter trigger was "Jenn" & "my love" so as soon as Meade says "Jenn", all his triggers would be broken including "Jenn, sleep"
5) Jenn's call with Gina is interrupted by the typical "signal issues". We're in the 21st century with 5G and insane network coverage and so this instance just fell flat
6) During Gina's hypnosis, she believes there's a spider on her. The husband reiterates that there is nothing but Gina FLOORS THE CAR?! Wouldn't it make more sense to BRAKE and stop the car in the corner and get her imaginary spider off? Ever hear of switching the car off and pulling the hand brake?
7) The husband was on the passenger side seat and many movies have shown that they are the ones who survive but Gina's husband has also tragically died
8) The ex-fiance ingests nuts and is comatose for over a month? Is that even possible?
9) Sending a SWAT team to Dr. Meade's office all at once was a pretty n00b move. You send one team there and another to Julian's address
10) It is absolutely NOT POSSIBLE to implant YOUR OWN MEMORIES into someone else's mind like Meade does to Jenn. When she feels that the room she is in "seems familiar"; this is not at all possible because you can't perceive something you've never been a part of so even her illogical dreams as Julian/Meade's ex-wife were nonsense.
Jeez, Netflix.
Prey (2021)
Dear Netflix: Please stop making movies now.
Dear Netflix,
This was not a movie. This was torture. There was nothing in this movie even worth praising.
Why was a woman living out in the hills with her daughter?
How was she surviving out there? Food? Shelter? Human contact?
What happened to the hunter who shot the woman's child?
How did the woman manage to become a sharpshooter?
Where did she buy her ammo from?
Why has the woman just put a unicorn without any tombstone? If hikers knew this was a tombstone, they would not take the unicorn in the first place. Wouldn't it make sense for the tombstone/burial site of the daughter to be at the hilltop where she could visit it and find peace?
So she witnesses her daughter being shot dead and that drives her to the point where she's killing everyone? Even an innocent cabin worker?
Why was there just ONE attendant girl in a whole establishment? No other visitors at all? Wouldn't she have a car etc to commute to and from her work at the cabin?
For the plot's convenience, there's no cellphone reception after the shooting starts but the guy is receiving "nudes" when they're enjoying themselves?
As a "tourist site" that has an actual worker stationed, you'd expect there to be cellphone service AND a working landline.
Wouldn't it be flagged as "missing persons" if a few people have actually gone missing in this particular hilly area? But then how would you make a movie out of it yeah?
So the woman "sharpshooter" gets her rifle kicked away and decides to just commit suicide? If she was THAT upset/traumatized over her daughter's death, I'd have expected her to just shoot herself.
Ojing-eo geim (2021)
It's good until the cop dies
Right off the bat, I smelled something fishy when Player 1 was actually Player 1. There were plenty of plotholes such as:
- Gi-hun owed the loan sharks and he tells them he'll pay them in full "next month" but we learn that he hasn't touched his winnings from the account so how did he pay them off?
- Diagnosed with diabetes and nearing amputation, Gi-hun's mother is not even in the hospital upon his return but dead on the floor. How long has she been dead?
- The cop has played every move smartly up until sending the evidence to the police which ruins the whole angle
- The cop's brother "won" the game but then becomes the Front Man and then kills his cop brother? Why?
- How did Gi-hun know exactly where to find the girl's little brother?
- All winners presumably are allowed to go free. What stops them from uncovering this game conspiracy? If any of the past winners accumulated together, they could bring down the corporation
- In the first instance, Gi-hun could have asked the cop to insert a tracking device on Gi-hun so when he went to the game the second time, the police could track his location
- There was no rule against crawling in the 6th game when they're crossing the glass. Two people can stand on one tempered tile while one person is crawling ahead. If the glass ahead breaks, the person with them (behind them) can just pull the person who starts falling by their legs and hoist them back up
- To my knowledge, tempered glass doesn't shatter. It webs up as we see on a car's windshield. Even so, a huge chunk of glass hits the girl and she bleeds profusely which doesn't seem plausible at all
- There are presumably 456 players when the games are starting. They could have easily constructed a human pyramid to reach the money inside the chamber. A few of them could have blocked the doors to stop the guards from entering. Alternatively, the players could have also overpowered the guards by their sheer number alone.
- Why didn't the cop trigger the bombs when he was escaping?
- When the cop sneaks into the van as a player, the guards are scanning the players behind their ears. What exactly are they scanning for?
Lucifer (2016)
4 stars for the first four seasons
I thoroughly enjoyed the first four seasons....and then they went ahead and introduced "God" and how he's "retiring"
Lesley-Anne Brandt: Great acting. Her portrayal of Maze was great. An emotionally burdened love-sick puppy demon who eventually resorts to lesbianism which was continually shoved down our throats for what feels like an eternity ever since Eve's introduction.
Rory claims to be Lucifer's daughter but we are introduced to her as strutting in Hell and sitting on Lucifer's Hell Throne and then being asked by one of the "wardens" about who is she and that she "shouldn't be here". Do the demons of Hell not know that this is Lucifer's daughter? Why is she time-jumping and landing in Hell?
"Introducing" Adam into the plot was ridiculous. Why even introduce him if there wasn't going to be any development? You only needed Adam to show how much of a feminist Eve has become and how she "doesn't need a man" even though Ever was literally created FROM Adam? Adam & Eve's introduction was lame. It tells me that anyone or everyone from "Heaven" can just pop down to Earth whenever they want just because they're "bored" when Heaven is supposed to be a beautiful place where you get to live out your desires and whatever you wish for. If you have all that, who would "get bored"?
"God" losing his powers and then forgetting where he put it. Uh, no thanks.
They introduce us to Dr. Linda's daughter only for her to never be seen ever again? Charlie who is a huge focus in the previous seasons (they literally go to war for him) is also barely seen in Season 6
Season 6 has Amenadiel joining the LAPD and Dr. Linda taking sessions in her office meanwhile Trixie is at "camp" - Who is taking care of Charlie during allllll of this? Skipped over for convenience of the plot.
Vincent Le Mec "remembering" Rory is also a plot hole because when Charlotte's body was left by "God's wife", she didn't remember a thing and yet here we have Le Mec conveniently being able to capture Rory. A half-angel who btw, he's never even met to begin with. Also, you can be a wanted fugitive and just go strolling in the park without anyone noticing and him being referred to as "some guy that Trixie was talking to"?
For the Le Mec battle, Lucifer & Chloe conveniently forget that they can use the dagger/necklace combo so that Chloe can get celestial strength?
Loved Ella's character development and her insecurity about not being kept in the loop about celestials. THAT was probably the only good thing about Season 6. Horrible end to an enjoyable show. Will miss "Detectiiiiive"
Don't Breathe 2 (2021)
Okay?
I really enjoyed the first movie and absolutely knew that the second one would just be a filler. I was correct. Here are a few things worth noting/pondering over:
1) The bad guys need a child's heart for an adult? Surely when you talk about being "compatible" you could find a donor and it didn't HAVE to be the daughter to begin with
2) So the whole plot was getting the child's heart but the bad guy tries to electrocute her?
3) While the girl is in the chamber/locker contraption and it is full of water, THAT is the moment she tries to open a latch at the bottom. Wouldn't it be obvious to go for it as soon as the water started filling up?
4) Silenced weapons?
5) The first movie included phones which means that this is more into the future which has phones. When the bad guys break in, call 911?
6) No fire alarm in the house? Isn't that against the law?
7) No neighbors to call the cops or the fire brigade when the house is being broken into/burned down?
8) Kidnapping the girl in the first instance would have made more sense. Chloroform her and take her to the house where they're performing the heart transplant?
9) Why wait for her to wake up and tell her you're her parents etc? Just perform the operation while she's under?
10) The bad father gets poked in the eyes and is up and running a few moments later. First experience of being blinded and you're able to sneak up on the old guy easily?
11) Insect killers are spraying everywhere causing temporary fog and blindness. Wouldn't people started coughing their lungs out with that much spray?
12) The only reason the bad guys are trying to save the mother is because she's the one who cooks the meth. Why couldn't she teach the others or could they not get any other meth cooks onboard?
13) The bad guy who grows a conscience could have helped the old blind guy dealing with the others. He is literally not seen after letting the old guy go free - WTF?
14) The bad guys could have also put up posters of their missing child and then accused the old blind guy of kidnapping and we'd have had a much different ending.
Till Death (2021)
So much potential
I legit thought this movie had potential but it all went down the drain after she drags the husband's corpse around.
Use glass from the windows or the vase? If nothing else, just snap the corpse's thumb and release yourself?
The interaction between Tom and Emma is also hugely unnecessary. Just get into Tom's car with or without the corpse on you instead of worrying about "you washed your face" and leave the scene?
Black Widow (2021)
Wait, what?
I normally don't hate on Marvel movies because I love them but I had to address these silly/unexplainable things:
1) The Red Guardian is portrayed to be a Russian version of Captain America. CA is basically a super soldier who was injected with a serum making him age slower, have super strength, regenerative powers etc. The Red Guardian only seems to have super strength. Nothing else.
2) The Widows cannot attack Dreykov because of something in their nervous system so that whenever they can smell Dreykov's pheromones, they shall not be able to harm him. Wouldn't it be a problem if someone wore a gas mask or just shot him with a sniper from a large distance? They'd be away from the pheromones, no?
3) Val tells Yelena that Clint Barton killed Natasha. Two problems arise with this: i) Where in the MCU timeline does the Black Widow movie fall? Presumably between or after Civil War as the Sokovia Accords are mentioned ii) How would Val be able to prove that Clint "killed" Natasha when Natasha actually sacrificed herself on Vormir and we actually SEE Clint NOT bring her body back either.
4) Why would you gender swap Taskmaster, seriously?
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
Destroying the legacy Tobin Bell left behind
This movie single-handedly destroyed the legacy Tobin Bell left behind. I'm not going to get into the "goof ups" but here's a breakdown of this horrible movie:
- Cops, whenever called, will never or rarely answer their phone and let it go to voicemail
- Schenk says that he tattooed his name on a dead guy's arm. He's not a tattoo artist and would have had horrible skills to do it but instead the tattoo is perfect
- How does Schenk have access to such elaborate materials for the finger trap and the tongue trap?
- How is Schenk able to construct an elaborate trap in the cold case room where he'd need boiling hot wax to be dropped on a body? How did he get access to those things and how did he get it down to the cold case room unnoticed?
- For the bottle shooting trap, you can simply knock away all the bottles and they won't get crushed and shoot at Pete
- How is Schenk who presumably has no prior surgical knowledge, able to set up the tongue trap as well as the finger trap AND cut the skin with surgical precision?
- The severed body parts are delivered through a courier. The first time they receive the tongue, it should have raised a red flag for the courier company. The next time, if the same guy (presumably Schenk) is getting it couriered in the same type of box, the courier company would open it and find the fingers leading to an immediate arrest.
- They never bother contacting the courier company for the details of WHO has sent the packages. Had they contacted the company, it would have led to them checking CCTV footage or getting a sender's address atleast
- They never run prints on the bodies/body parts. With the current technology being used, they would have managed to find a trace of Schenk's DNA
- A quick DNA test on "Schenk's' body would have also revealed that it wasn't Schenk
- Schenk isn't a mechanic or expert engineer to be able to design an elaborate pulley system that falls to the floor when a target is shot but lifts a body back up when a sensor is triggered nor is he a doctor to understand how to get needles inserted in Zeke's father's body to drain blood
- At the end of the movie, although Zeke's father is dead, Zeke himself is alive and now knows who the killer is and can most likely put an end to Schenk.
Army of the Dead (2021)
"If you coordinate & communicate, this should be a simple in-and-out"
I was honestly liking the movie until Kate decides she wants to save a woman which results in everyone dying except Kate. I present to you my breakdown of the "things I noticed":
- If Tanaka is the guy assigning the job, why is he not providing them a way in?
- Why did Kate have to presumably steal a van so they could go into the city?
- If Martin is Tanaka's head of security and can "access any hardware" why didn't they ask for anything? What extensive knowledge does he have of the casino?
- So they're supposed to enter the city, move down the Strip and reach Bly in less than 2 hours. Non lethal deterrents would have already been triggered since others have already tried it but they were still on
- How far is the Bly from the Olympus?
- Geeta tells the Coyote to "take them in" (the 3 ladies) but they never take a guard as a "sacrifice"
- It is never made clear how many people can be put inside the emergency chopper on the Bly's rooftop
- "looks like they're taking him to Olympus" "Good, now we know where not to go" - Yet, Kate goes there.
- Dieter inserts a key card to get into the safe area. If a card is being used, the booby traps would be disabled because an authorized user would be entering WITH an authorized card, but they still have to deal with the traps
- When Martin shoots the woman zombie and binds her, why not shoot the same and bind the long-haired male zombie too? Why try shooting him instead?
- Zombie woman's body is not hidden even after it is said that the truce will be void if body is found
- Do they not have silenced weapons? Acid rain? Flamethrowers? What year is it supposed to be? 1800s?
- Was there no other SIMPLER casino to rob in the entire Vegas Strip? Instead of one giant vault at the Bly, they could have targeted smaller ones without such complicated security, no?
- Kate morphs away from the gang near the safe despite the only way out is via the elevator. She is then seen inside a car with thousands of zombies nearby. How tf did she quietly manage to sneak away AND get into a wrecked car? She is then shown to run inside the Olympus
- "What's in this bag is worth ten times than what's in the vault". The zombie head. If that's all he was after, why go to the safe at all? Just get out? I'll go kill the pilot why? They entered the quarantine area through some gates on land so why not get out the same way?
- Bullet proof mask on the alpha zombie? Wtf. He takes the mask off in the next shot to have a fist fight with Vanderohe. Dieter could have just killed the zombie then? LOL
- Why trap the Vanderohe in the safe? Just hand him a gun?
- 1 hour 55 minute mark: is that a zombie cyborg?
- Coyote holds up the decapitated head of the queen to hold off the big guy. Can just get into the chopper with the other team members altogether
- Based on the size, the small chopper would not have held all crew members anyway
- Decapitated zombie head is smooshed after falling a few feet which is not possible
- Geeta and her pal are STILL IN THE SAME spot when Kate finds them. They didn't bother moving at all the whole time?
- "Kate you came back for me" Hello? How did Geeta know Kate would try to find her at all? Because she didn't bother telling Kate this and just left her kids alone
- Assuming Kate has had no experience with weapons at all, all of a sudden she is landing headshots
- Why would the pilot not keep the engine running and stay on the roof? Not like they'll run out of fuel. Not like they're flying from America to Egypt (WW84 reference)
- If the military just nuked Vegas and they saw a chopper fly out and crash land, imo there's no need to check for survivors because you're risking a spared zombie
- So Vanderohe survives inside a safe. How did he get out from inside? Also how did he get bitten? What's more is that the blast would have contaminated the area and Vanderohe would have been exposed to serious amounts of radiation and probably not survived
- "If you coordinate & communicate, this should be a simple in-and-out" - COULD NOT HAVE SUMMED UP BETTER - Why did NOBODY have any cellphone or laptop or walkie talkie to communicate with the outside world or with eachother?
Oxygène (2021)
Nice plot, horrible execution
Usually when I watch these "clone" movies, there's only one thought in mind: The clone needs to be told that they're a clone because much of the screen time is wasted with her trying to remember who she is and how she got there instead of focusing on the real issue of OXYGEN.
The Woman in the Window (2021)
Nope
Didn't expect a movie starring Amy Adams and Gary Oldman to be this horrible. Plot was confusing as well.
Plot hole: You can receive a call from an unknown number while driving but after an accident, you have no signal to call 911
Also, it is never mentioned how long Amy's character has struggled with agoraphobia but after the traumatic events and "nine months later", she has apparently recovered fully.