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Writer/director/artisan Joanna Hogg has reportedly taken her experiences as a London film student during the 1980's and put them to paper and cellulose, including a relationship with an older man enduring substance abuse. The trivia behind this film is scrumptious--including how the lead role was filled by Tilda Swinton's daughter, Honor Swinton Byrne (in a tour de force performance), both on film playing...wait for it...mother & daughter. It is slow and beautiful. The sequel is in theaters.
The latest 007 movie is a grueling 2h45m slog that could have easily been boiled down to 2h at least. This wandering mess is full of plot holes, continuity gaps, and scenes that just didn't make a lot of sense. We are given a villain, of sorts, that we have no real investment in either way despite the franchise making the bad guys compelling. If nothing else you wanted to see them lose but with this one, eh? The writers phoned it in and Rami Malek wasn't given enough room to make us care. With all the hype of a new 007 that will replace Craig, a young black female no less, this didn't feel like a hand-off at all. Lashana Lynch is forced into the shadows the entire movie and it ends up being a funeral for Craig without being the birth of Lynch as the new 007. This franchise needs a reboot, and this movie failed at being a good transition for that.
This is a movie about an assassin, working for someone played by a well-known actor (Anthony Hopkins in this case), you pretty much know the general plot. As I frequently say, even if you know the destination, the path to get there can still be enjoyable. This movie does that through narration by the main character who explains what makes a good assassin. What he looks for and how he operates, spelled out in fun detail. Avoiding spoilers, I will say they had fun with the characters and their roles, leaving you guessing who will kill who. The only nitpick I have is literally the last two minutes of the movie that I just didn't get. Perhaps I missed something or perhaps it was some attempt at a weird artistic bit? Either way, worth a watch.
This was horrible by Nicholas Cage movie standards. A complete miss in an attempt to be artistic, it seems like the writer had ideas of some visually interesting scenes and then strung them together. It's hard to even say a plot united them because the entire plot literally made up 10 minutes of the movie. Go into badlands, ask a dozen people if they are the woman you are looking for, take her back. Then fill that 10 minutes with bizarre scenes that just seemed pointless and unrelated. I didn't watch this with subtitles and I think I was better off, cutting half the dialogue out. Avoid this dumpster fire.
