Recurrence

This film is the weakest of the trilogy, the first was really good and had a fresh take on women as cops victims etc.

The second stretched reality a bit, this film has good intentions but the car chase looked like wacky races, the natives were cardboard cutouts and the bad cops fat ugly and lazy, the good cop is a hunky model, some of the killings were laughable and the music seems to have been written for something else and let's face miss Marple would have had them clapped in irons by 3pm for afternoon tea.

Luisana Lopitalo ( forgive spelling) kicks ass and does a good job but she's drowning in a mediocre script. In short no I don't recommend it, the first two are good.

Another unviewable movie coming from Netflix.

You may wonder what it takes to get fired as person responsible for content at Netflix. Because one after the other shipwreck is launched.

There's 10 minutes in the movie where it's a subplot about native Americans and it has nothing to do with the rest of the movie. What the hell. That makes zero sense.

Dissonant, discordant, disjointed noises that vary between neo spaghetti western and '60's outer space music overlaying any dialog, which isn't too much of a problem since the dialog is stilted and amateurish anyway.

Too many plot holes and improbable situations coupled with a childish attempt at being a message movie about native south americans. I don't want to know who scored this or wrote this or acted in this, aside from the two young actors playing the rich kids, who earned my grudging rating of two stars, everyone and everything was abysmal from start to finish.

As "Recurrence" (2022 release from Argentina; 115 min.; original title: "Pipa") opens, a woman is found dead. We then go to "A Few Hours Earlier", and we get to know a rich family in a remote rural area of Argentina. There is a big party at the family mansion, and one of the staff people, Samanta, is the woman found dead some hours later... What exactly happened here? At this point we are 10 minutes into the movie.

Couple of comments: this is the latest from Argentinean writer-director Alejandro Montiel ("Intuition"). Here he intends to bring a crime thriller. It's not at all clear for quite a while that the key character is a woman named Manuela, apparently an erstwhile cop. I kept waiting for things to pick up, and kept waiting, and waiting... I could not get into it whatsoever and gave up an hour into the movie, sorry. It wasn't until afterward, when I read up on this movie, that I realized that "Recurrence" is a sequel of sorts to a prior movie (20178s "Perdida", or "Loss") starring that same character Manuela (and played by the same actress, Luisana Lopilato). Even though "Recurrence" is supposed to be a stand-alone film, it's pretty clear to me that having seen "Perdida" would've answered a lot of questions I had about the lead character, and would also have given me a much better context within which to appreciate "Recurrence".

"Recurrence" recently premiered on Netflix, where it was "suggested" to me based on my viewing habits. Typically I trust these suggestions quite a bit, but in this instance, I wish I was aware that "Recurrence" comes after "Loss" and "Loss" (also on Netflix) should've been recommended to me before "Recurrence". Viewer beware!