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Carmen is a movie that tries to be too many different things at once. It wants to be a musical, a modern dance recital, a drama about ptsd and romance, and an art house forward film. The end result as you can imagine is a slow, bloated mess.

The positives are the performances from Melissa and Paul. This isn't an easy film to act in due to the nature of the story, but they both commit to their roles and deserved a better director.

Outside of the cinematography which accurately captured the mood of the story, there's nothing else to praise. Benjamin Millepied's cinematic vision is pretentious and dreadful. His eye for directing is better suited for the stage, not film.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a fabulous achievement in CGI, set design and costuming. Every single frame looks expensive and well thought out. This is without a doubt, one of the best technical achievements we've seen from a sci-fi movie this century.

However, it hurts when you watch a movie that's absolutely stunning but the writing is atrocious. The writing is so disjointed that it even effects the action scenes. It's no wonder why audiences didn't connect with this film at the box office- the story is flat as stale pop and the performances from the leads aren't captivating at all.

It's impossible to review Wakanda Forever without mentioning Chadwick Boseman. His Black Panther was meant to be the next Iron Man of the MCU and his untimely passing left a deep wound.

No, Wakanda Forever is not an amazing film. It's okay and maybe even great considering the circumstances that everyone had to deal with. It's very well made but a massive budget can't deliver a good story.

This movie is 30 minutes too long and it spends too much time on new characters. There's also something very soulless about Black Panther's replacement which means the ending of this film is rather uninspiring.