This week I have been watching mostly shite.
The Man From Uncle (2015)
I loved this series as a kid (it was re-run, I’m not that old) and I usually enjoy turning off my brain for guy ritchie’s easy to follow entertainments.
I suppose the set up and plot was ok and some set pieces were entertaining enough but it just didn’t work. I put most of the blame on Henry Cavil for giving one of the most irritating performances this side of James Corden. I didn’t think wooden and OTT could be done together, but he did it.
Looked good though (I meant the film, but Cavil too I suppose).
5/10
Odd Thomas (2013)
Offbeat teen horror about a young guy who can see the dead and some demon type things.
Something bad will happen. Can he stop it ? Didn’t care really.
I was quite intrigued by some of the premise and there were some interesting bits, but the main character’s arc didn’t grab me. Also a shit lead performance (dead guy out of Star Trek reboot) or shit script gave the main character zero actual character.
The demon thingies had untapped potential.
5/10
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Teenage forger and con man in cat and mouse with diligent Fed.
It’s Hanks and diCaprio with a side of Walken and Amy Adams directed by Spielberg so can’t go far wrong.
I don’t think I’d seen this properly before.
It looks fantastic as a stylised period piece, from the classy opening credits right through. It looks great too. It’s very funny and everything is done really well.
The unreliable narrator device is used well and sparingly. I don’t think it’s central to the plot but it allows lots of improbable things to happen. Maybe some are just a bit too improbable.
Just very, very good.
8/10
Tenet (2020)
I’ve liked most of Chris Nolan’s time bending films so was pretty disappointed by this.
I haven’t given the premise too much analysis but it felt like it didn’t really make sense in principle and was inconsistently applied in the film. It also wasn’t very interesting.
Pretty much guessed the revelation at the end about ten minutes in.
The action scenes weren’t well done and the whole thing looked sludgy.
4/10
Men in Black International (2019)
Basically forgotten what happened in this made for tv looking half hearted reboot.
No cool aliens
3/10