Opiniones de martimusross

The Surfer

The script was practically non-existent, with the same threat sequences played over and over again. A movie cannot be sustained on the spontaneous method acting of Mr Cage. On top of that we then had several gaslighting sequences, created by passer-by's, the estate agent and several thugs, it really was quite ridiculous.

Then we were expected to accept all these weird happenings at face value without even the faintest explanation.

Last but not least least the movie then started to flag as no one had a clue to end the movie, and when they did with a spiritual twist I laughed out loud.

I'm giving this a firm 1 outta 10, a hideous turkey!

The Silent Hour

Whilst the scenario was over contrived we had some solid and believable acting. The selection of thugs about 20 minutes that seem to botch up everything they touched it really didn't work.

We then had repetitive snebe after repetitive scene, I am sure it was the directors intention this built some sort of suspense into the movie but in reality we didn't really care what happened to anybody? Deaf or no?

Overall this was really a very tedious movie and I can't give it more than 4 out of 10. I certainly don't recommend anyone watching this despite the fact that it was stuffed with stars trying their best with this turkey of a project.

Straw

This film was littered with problems, the whole narrative was to make us believe the whole universe was against this mother played by Tariji P Henson, but the shear plethora of issues stretched credulity and we, the audience had little sympathy for her, because so much of her situation was brought upon herself.

Why did the script writers not realise they over-whipped the cream with this script, and it curdled.

When she returned to her flat and she had been thrown on the street, we all laughed out loud, and as for the burglary and all the screaming it was plain silly! Then we moved to the bank, the nasty stereotyping was totally unacceptable, the action halted for some strange virtue signalling by the younger police woman.

Tariji Henson is a quality actress and she had allowed herself to be connected to the project, what was she thinking.

At best this is a three outta 10, it was a disaster.

P. Henson.

The Guilty

This was movie was problematic, it started of with a degree of intensity from Jake Gyllenhaal's character that became wearing

I am at a loss to understand why anyone thinks watching this scenario play out is interesting. Looking at someone unraveling is not entertainment when I can go down stairs and see this!

This style of method acting over strength of story just lacks credibility. The length of shouting, and abusive monologues down the phone is just not strong enough a script to support a movie.

The idea that we cared about Emily, Henry, Oliver and Abby or cared in the slightest about Joe is absurd, I wanted them all dead and the movie to be over!

At best this is a 1 outta 10 is was appalling.

Friendship

If this was a comedy I failed to find the humour, I am not comfortable "laughing at" a clearly tortured soul suffering with social anxiety and self-regulation. It would concern me if people did find this movie funny as what would this indicated about their inner world view surrounding social dysfunction.

The movie inserted several themes, I won't seek to identify them, but these were badly handled and never resolved to any satisfaction.

The script was beyond clunky, and the idea the viewer was embarrassed by some of the scenarios is absurd. What we witnessed was the movie flagging and writers running out of ideas.

It was just impossible to see how they would end this movie, and introducing a strange rant to frighten people into friendship just lacked imagination. What were they thinking!

Overall it was really boring and went nowhere, at best this is 3 outta 10, best avoided.

Deep Cover

We had some really good gags in this movie from start to finish. It was stuffed with stars who threw themselves into this project with total joy.

The script was tight that brought together an America out of work comedian, a failing actor and a city nerd frustrated with his career. The casting was inspired and it just worked.

We had some very clever slapstick humour embedded in high tension action sequences. The standout comedy was the two bumbling policemen who just didn't know a steak out from their elbows, great fun.

I giving this a firm 8 outta 10, it wasn't perfect but it was fabulous.

The Accountant 2

It was great, always difficult to come up with a gripping sequel script that does not end up over-egging the elements that made the first movie a hit. I agree it was far from perfect, with some overly contrived scenarios, some clunky moments and some awkward moments, but overall I really enjoyed this movie.

I learned about acquired savant syndrome, I didn't know that was a thing and now I stand corrected. Maybe a bump on the head might improve my piano skills, something to consider lol.

Ben Affleck was solid in his performance of our struggling hero coping with modern life. There was much humour and I laughed out loud several times, the line dancing sequence for one. I must mention Jon Bernthal, he kept up a level of maniacal freneticism throughout as was a great foil for the humour, his best scene was wanting to share the affections of a cat.

I'm giving this a firm 7 outta 10, it was very funny, we had great action and it was a great night out!

The Amateur

I really enjoyed this movie, it was a thriller of sorts, with a nerdy CIA analyst, played by Remi Malik, who was a kind of espionage savant deciphering complex data and keeping all our lives safe from the baddies.

The contradiction of this weedy antihero who had to step up to the plate to right a great wrong, was really quite inspirational. On paper this may have looked crazy casting but it was at times deeply moving in the characters grief and desperation. Expertly acted and great to see!

The script was tight and there were some great action sequences and the balance between the action and narrative was just right.

The movie was let down in the last 10 minutes when we just had a ridiculous scenario that ready was beyond incredulous! This was such a shame!

The whole cast turned it out but at best this is a firm 7 outta 10, if they contrived a better ending this would have been an 8.5, it is well worth watching for Malik alone.

Yet another tedious portrayal of gay life as sleazy, opportunistic and tortured. Cannot writers abandon the stock shock tactics of multiple bodies in multiple beds in multiple days, quite frankly it's so boring!

With that said I liked the central lead, he turned out some good acting, despite the sometimes excruciating script and stereotypical scenarios.

Did we learn anything, any insight into this dark underbelly of paid sex work no, it's really was unbelievably drab! Had I been to those clubs and seen those dreadful stage shows I would have thrown rotten fruit lol

I can't give this more than a 4 outta 10, and quite frankly I was bored.

Austin

This was a strange curiosity of a drama, and whilst we had an inventive script and some quite inspired acting, it lacked any heft, it was just all a bit bland or beige.

It really wasn't very funny and certainly didn't hit the minimum bar for a comedy of 5 out loud laughs per episode!

Had I been commissioning this show it would not have been made at all. However this all sounds like I didn't enjoy it, but you would be wrong. Austin was well drawn and really quite compelling and I thought the acting here was on the nail. I enjoyed the gentle viewing and the feel good feel!

I'm going to give this a firm 7 outta 10, but it certainly is niche viewing!

Paddington In Peru

Overall they did a fine job here, it was not as funny or on plot as the last Paddington movie, but it would be churlish to be over-critical either. It did seem overly contrived with much of the humour resting on other characters other than Paddington, this was to my mind a mistake.

There were some moments of comedy gold but these were few and far between. But it more than passed the bar of a comedy movie and 5 out loud laughs!

Antonio Banderas was not entirely convincing as was the daughter, he grew on me she didn't. Olivia Coleman turned it out, but she just could have been eviler, I think they missed a trick here!

Overall I enjoyed it and am giving this a firm 7 outta 10 meaning it didn't disappoint.

Big Boys

I watched the lot. Few programmes sink to the lowest common denominator as quickly as this one, populated by squalid and grubby stereotypes types that pander to current vacuous trends without redemption, I doubt anyone could identify with any of the tropes advanced forward here. Where will this bunch of losers end up in life, get predicting!

This was a mixed bag of good and bad, mostly bad! My major beef with it was it was billed as a comedy, the minimum bar being 5 out loud laughs an episode, I didn't laugh once in 3 series!

Then rather than this being any sort of situational comedy it was more a mental health audit of lost teens at University.

Then show was universally miserable with some really horrible stereotypes. What was really strange was differential permissiveness, some topics were repeatedly raised done to death and thoroughly explored and others dismissed as irrelevant. For instance, it was a major celebration that Danny got back onto his first year degree course after being sanctioned, whoopdeedoo!, regardless of the fact he would fail as he submitted no work and attended no lecture.

We then had so many buzz words and tropes that all amounted to extreme entitlement and a lack of resilience without any moral compass, in series 2 we witnessed an abortion event that seemed to have equal relevance and meaning to popping out for a kebab!

Lastly did the writer of this dross consider the future he was predicting for these losers, I see death, destitution, drug addiction and a padded cell. I'm not sure he wanted it to be so nihilistic but that's what he achieved.

I'm giving this a 3 outta 10 and I am shocked at the lack of vision or any comedy in what was billed as a comedy show.

This City Is Ours

We have had Kin, Peaky Blinders, and now this, surely enough is enough, was it yet just another opportunity to subject us to another unintelligible regional accent and update our translation skills that may have fallen rusty. This show was victim of a low budget, there was little action and they filled the void with the most asinine jabber. I wanted more war, war and less jaw jaw! We then had a series of very repetitive scenarios, how many time did Michael say "will you tell me what's going on, and how many was he told to leave it!"

It was quite bizarre the fact that this was clearly an all boys business, yet we had a majority of scenes that had a gender imbalance towards women, and yet none of these characters added anything to the story or narrative flow as they didn't know any detail of the business.

Why oh why was it all so glacially slow, in two hours we had a smuggling deal go awry and one hit, this is a rainy Tuesday in the East-end of London. We had a five minute scene where Ronnie pours a drink by the pool and rests on a sun-bed, are they joking!

The script was banal, the acting predictable and pedestrian, bereft of action there was just nothing new here, in fact Eastenders is more gripping.

At best this is a 3 outta 10, it was quite frankly rubbish, please no more!

Blink Twice

We were introduced to two loser friends who lived together worked as waitresses at an events centre. It was made clear from the start all there dreams and aspirations and had evolved from observing the rich and famous on the internet. When suddenly they meet one of these aspirational rich people from the internet and became recruited to his island resort for a break they go.

We then had a modern trope about "being seen", but this was delusional when the power differential was all too apparent, who was paying for all this luxury and to what end.

We were an hour in and still nothing of any substance had happened. When the plot was revealed we had quite an unoriginal story that stereotyped and demonised male behaviour. Of course we then had a girl power moment to round of the movie.

Overall this was just terrible, I'm giving this a firm 3 out of 10. No one should watch this as it was just posting political statement.

Companion

Overall this was a great movie, yes I agree large elements of it were very derivative but the combination of all these parts made something new, I think it was quite memorable.

Without destroying the story, there was a blade rather element where the robot knowing it was a robot wanted to continue to live. Throughout this movie, we were shown some supremely entitled people and what they are prepared to do to get on in life without doing any proper work and that was certainly a new way of writing something interesting into the plot.

The sci-fi elements were brilliantly done and I think overall this was a great movie. I'm going to give this a firm 8 out of 10 meaning you won't be disappointed.

I'm Still Here

Another worthy story about the wife of a notable politician in Brazil in 1970. Briefly we spent the first hour setting the scene, we were shown the fairly utopian scene of a large family enjoying a fairly affluent lifestyle next to the beach in Rio de Janeiro, on the face of it the husband had return back to his civil career as an architect having previously been a politician. However behind the scenes it became clear he was involved in an anti-government group.

The second half of the movie focused on the wife played by Fernandez Torres. She seemed to play the part with two faces so I couldn't really judge whether she was any good or not.

I thought the movie was overly long and needed a good edit, there wasn't really much action and really it was all as dry as dust.

For me this was at best a week 7 out of 10 I want to give it a six but I did enjoy it whilst I watched it but it was infinitely forgettable.

Unspoken

This was beautifully realised movie in every respect. Set in an orthodox Jewish setting we met Noam, a schoolboy, coming to terms with the death of his beloved grandfather. I won't go into the story but basically because he idolised his grandfather he identified with him. This led to a misunderstanding of some deep secret in his grandfathers past that Noam thought would lead the way for him to be brave in his own life to his friends and family.

This was a gay movie in only a very oblique way, it was more about a shared heritage and familial love.

The acting was superb, music delightful and the camerawork and direction quite invisible, this was very much a hidden gem.

I'm giving this a firm 9 outta 10 meaning it was well worth watching this charming movie.

Rarely do we see a reality show that is truly joyful from start to finish, as a rule I hate hate this sort of cheap junk TV that often stoops to the lowest common denominator.

This programme avoided all these traps as these two friends took on a near insurmountable challenge.

The artistic choices of architecture and interior design showed great insight and were quite inspirational, roll on series 3 to 10 lol

It was so refreshing to see Amanda Holden well outside of her comfort zone and we really saw the steel of her personality, it was revelatory.

I'm giving this a brilliant 10 outta 10, I could find no fault.

Plainclothes

An excellent movie set in the 90's that explored the reality of being gay and trying to deny that truth in a straight world of friends and family. Supposedly built on a true story.

The ever present expectations of everyone around you to be what they expect you to be, is well played out in this movie.

Tom Blyth plays Lucas, a cop, who detail at the present is entrapment of gay men, here he meets Russell Tovey, who's playing Andrew and there is an instant connection. The movie skirted around the all to common reality that many a gay man cannot realised his true sexuality whilst his parents are alive and then when that moment arrives all hell breaks loose.

This was a cleverly scripted and crafted movie that alternated between the police work and the embryonic romantic relationship between Lucas and Andrew. There is more than an element of fixation on Lucas's part as this is his first entanglement.

I thought this was all played very convincingly and stated in spades no one can choose their sexuality or sexual preference regardless of their own intellectual desires, it just cannot be denied.

I'm going to give this firm 8 outta 10, a most believable set of scenarios.

Bridget Jones - Mad About The Boy

Up front I'm a big fan of Bridget Jones and this was a really enjoyable movie. It must also be acknowledged that to write a script wrapping up a franchise whilst keeping the fans and having a compelling story is a very difficult task indeed!

With that said there were some weak spots and poor editing that unbalanced the overall feel of the movie and some areas of overindulgence. Overall the feel was quite downbeat, Bridget was 4 going into 5 years after the death of mark, traditionally speaking one year and one day is normal for the grief process, unless of course your queen victory and determined to make a cult out of it.

What was clear was the fun they had making this movie and that Bridget Jones is a national treasure, even if she is perhaps largely and anti role model. I'm going to give this a firm 7 out of 10 meaning it was well worth a watch and there were lots of laughs to be had.

Virdee

The whole thing was a total car crash and needs to be taken off the BBC. It was just full of nasty divisive stereotypical tropes and whoever commissioned this needs sacking. There was a chosen racial imbalance in the programme so severe I could not recognise or identify with hardly anyone, this series was created for niche viewing and I am not a fan of this kind of political statement in fiction.

It all got off to a very poor start, after some silly chase we had some weird family/religious backstory. This was absurd and a stereotypical quagmire, they just shouldn't have gone there. Virdee was a Sikh and his wife a Muslim. Only a Muslim man may marry non-Muslim women, Muslim women may only marry a non Muslim man if he converts to Islam and has the permission of the woman's family, this is non negotiable. She would be dead to her family and no longer a Muslim in this programme. Equally Virdee would be dead to his family if he married a Muslim woman. This story line was absurd, as they just jumble it up as if things change over time and all will be well.

Episode 2 we had family caring for family as a nurse in the hospital this is not permitted, absurd! The main problem was this was all a distraction from the crime story and added nothing.

As the criminal case progressed things improved in episode 3 but increasingly we had Bradford portrayed as an Asian ghetto with its own rules and behaviours. I have been and it is not and if I was from Bradford, I would be most insulted by this programme. I just felt overall they inserted too many issues it was too busy to the detriment of the entire programme.

I think Staz Nair gave a fine performance, why could he not have just been a regular cop in a regular show, why the heavy immersion in race issues. I'm giving this 3 outta 10, meaning it's over make no more.

Nickel Boys

It was terrible!

Rarely am I so irritated by cinematic tricks that the story being told by a movie becomes secondary. This was artifice over substance in spades, just as we have had increasingly oblique ways of looking at the holocaust, we now have the same approach with race, this year we have had Sing Sing and now this. How many times must I say it, we (I represent the global audience) are exhausted by these two topics, they have been done to death and we want to see something new.

I would add just because something reflects a real life event doesn't make it more worthy of elevation at the Oscars. This is merely virtue signalling on a grand scale.

What was good, I liked grandma, the acting was earnest, Mr Blakley was evil incarnate. But everything else was bad, the music grated, the cinematography irritated, the constant looking at the back of someone's head became tiresome, the serving up of tissue thin ideas in obvious and patronising ways, some nasty stereotyping with the bizarre inserted metaphors setting the movie in a time, and place and really just about everything that appeared on the screen.

Overall I hated it with a vengeance and it's a 3 outta 10 from me, meaning skip this boring tripe!

The Cockfields

Wow, has situational comedy really sunk to these depths, bland characters expressing inner micro-observations population by gross and offensive stereotypes. How can this script have been given the green light, why does this tripe exist at all.

It clearly seemed to tap into The Royale Family as an example of this type of kitchen sink drama, however that was inspired comedy writing this is a car crash of epic proportions?

But clearly the key criticism was it failed the minimum bar of 5 out loud laughs per episode, I didn't laugh once! Take this show off the BBC, remove it from iPlayer, bin the script, burn the video tape and shoot the writers. I'm thinking of hypnotism to erase it from my memory so it never existed.

I'm giving this a week one out of 10 it was terrible. No one watch this. It was mind numbing tripe!