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I thought that was excellent for the Shaw films I have seen so far.

This film is excellent because it looks great. The cinematography was really nice for one of these films, framed with thought. The zooming in this film was not bad and there weren't any reaction capturing close up zooms that these films are littered with.

One specific moment that I found questionable was using light for a useless little scare on the audience. Making a character lit bright green. It worked in that characters opening shot, but some later shots specifically looked not real and extra light hit the clothing they were wearing rather than just the face, which works something special.

There was a nice story here. A conman's travels and eventual settling in a certain village he has fooled for a long time. He was a good hearted defend the poor and treat the bourgeoisie like arse, but he puts his own self before the poor.

The main actor Yue Wong is great. A real special character and performance. His kung fu was excellent, I love that animal style stuff specifically when Jackie Chan in 'Around the World in 80 Days,' one of my childhood films, does the demonstration of the different styles, so I was very impressed and surprised when this was a part of the plot. The kung fu all round, in fact, is incredible, it was probably the better of the chopsocky Shaw films I have seen so far. 'The Brave Archer' had some excellent kung fu but it was not raw, it was supernatural stuff which has a different spellbounding affect on the audience.

The action comedy preceding 'Drunken Master' demonstrates action scenes with comedic moments and then brutality which is exactly what Jackie Chan did with his movies, and it is done competitively so here.

The opening scene has the opening titles freeze framing a demonstration to the audience of some true spiritual boxing which is just so magnificent. It sets a wonderful scene for a great kung fu movie and a well done story, foreshadowing and pay off. Well done.

That was awesome, modern, sci-fi greatness. Extremely disappointed that Ridley didn't do more practical stuff than he did in this bad boi but all is forgiven. The CGI itself was not the best thing ever and it would have been hard to do what the xenomorphs did with practical effects so there is the trade off there. The cinematography was pretty stellar, nothing special but better than average. The cast was great, I was surprised that Fassbender was in this, not having seen anything about it except the posters and highly anticipating it, the anticipation was well paid off too. This is a slow mover and that is one of the things that didn't work for me because when the horror/action pops up it is sudden and loud and not built up to well enough. Jump scares were prominent but they were as tasteful as you could make a jump scare. The gore effects were beautiful and all horror scenes were tremendously beautiful. The action/horror scenes with much gore were equally brilliant. Two thumbs up and hoping to give it the phat 10 on my next watch. There are some scenes that I think will end up as iconic ones, such as the shower scene and probably all the horror scenes. The suspense was pretty good, the score used expertly, it looks good and I just love it bois. Probably not going to make a five-star rating to be honest but swell stuff. Can't wait for a sequel, please keep alive Ridley Scott.

This film was one of my most anticipated of the year. Emma Roberts was as bad as always (in my opinion) and Dave Franco was fine. The idea they came up with was awesome and it had the potential of going in many directions. They decide it is best to go the route that we as a people are the villains and let social media run us or whatever the hell they were trying to put across. The opening of this film is fast paced and well done. The second act makes sense, the characters are believable and Nerve itself is something that could actually happen. I mean I would play Nerve 100% but for a film I think they were going too relatable and tried for a film to make you think about yourselves and how you are basically this nerve game because it essentially is a metaphor for us and you choose if you are a watcher or a player and then you as "watchers" influence or pressure the "players" to do things. This could have been one of my favorite thrillers and in my top 3 films of all time but it was so poorly executed and turned out to be a run of the mill unoriginal film in the end. I recommend not seeing this film.