Miasmakoala

It's definitely not groundbreaking. Nothing wrong with it though. It's rather rare to come across well written dudebro humour today.

You can definitely see that Gillis, McKeever & the team have been writing similar humour for a long time. The comedic timing of the jokes makes the show. Obviously the cast is good and the premise simple and clear, but you can't compliment the writing enough. It's been ages since I've laughed this much.

The humour has some fun, light and clever commentary on some current social topics. But it's definitely not preachy or in your face. Shane Gillis is funny, but there's so many more great performances, such as Kilah and Cal. Big recommend if you're looking for some casual fun.

Jättiläinen (The Mine) felt a bit like The Big Short without the humour, fast-paced editing and clever exposition pieces.

There was a lot of good. The actors are great and there's fun scenes, mostly everything involving Jani Volanen.

There's an admirable level of restraint in the movie which is not too typical for a majority of Finnish 'big budget' films (one million euros). The movie was shot with a sense of patience. It looked good, the landscape shots were great. The muted colour palette in addition to the soundtrack compliments the melancholic and desperate feeling the main character Jussi (Joonas Saartamo) brings to the film with his performance.

Overall the movie doesn't want to make the issues of the movie a fun, silly spectacle which the aforementioned The Big Short did with its issue. However in the end everything felt somewhat shallow.

The characters' motivations are explored only with the main character and even his scenes are short, mostly him just being tired with his family. There's a buildup to him having an affair, but it doesn't go anywhere. The main 'villain' has no depth, he's simply greedy and wants profit.

The issue itself was left somewhat obscure. I understand that there was corruption but even the inevitable conclusion, environment pollution, had no impact in the film. There's clips from real life news, few shots of muddy lakes and that's it. The details of the corruption involved was the core of the movie and yet it felt shallow as well.

To wrap it up I'll return to The Big Short. After watching that movie I felt like I could, not need to, read the Wikipedia summary of the housing bubble.

After watching Jättiläinen I felt like I really should read the Wikipedia summary to fully understand what it was all about.

I was promised a disgusting level of senseless violence, sex scenes and full frontal nudity. It was a lot tamer (and lamer) than expected.

I enjoyed it but it ended up not doing so much with it's interesting premise. The resolution of the cloning is rather predictable and shallow. There's so much more they could have done with the topics of the film.

The soundtrack was fine and the cinematography was too. Acting was solid. The psychedelic scenes were disappointing. They were short and just pretty average. Nowhere near the level of psychedelia of Midsommar or Climax.

Doubt I'll ever see it again. I felt it was still worth the ticket price.