Mike has written 28 reviews for films rated .
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It Lives Inside 2023
Was praying for the movie to break any new grounds throughout its runtime but it just never did. So uninterested to veer into any directions and played so painfully straight.
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Black Adam 2022
Something about the hierarchy of power in the DC universe idk. The Rock had like one facial expression the whole movie. Felt like they kinda wanted to go camp with it but doesn’t really commit so it just ended up being this awkward mess of a screenplay, oh well at least Dr Fate was cool to see.
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City 2021
This movie is speedrunning RE1 and 2 faster than I can so props for that I guess.
I also had the privilege of watching this right after I skimped through the first 2 episodes of the Netflix series and this one “tries” to be faithful at least. It doesn’t work like…at all but hey good licker introduction scene! -
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore 2022
Somehow they managed to make one worse than the last one! Impressive if you ask me.
This whole franchise have just felt like a committee grasping at straws to justify its existence, and nothing proves that more than shoving the Fantastic Beast mantle onto these films because they didn’t expect to be making FIVE of these. In the process the magic is well and truly gone from all of them. What’s left is just sterile, bland and corporate.
And for a movie all about magic it really is fucking ugly to look at innit? Whose idea was it to colour grade this like grey concrete? -
The Adam Project 2022
Not convinced Netflix doesn’t just have an AI churning these out. Soulless, digital and so devoid of life.
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Old 2021
Conceptually idk this is interesting. Always love a movie that plays with time. But Old….this just really didn’t work.
On a technical level, it’s just really all over the damn place. Sometimes Shyamalan does really cool unique stuff and sometimes it just looks stupid.
But the writing lmfao. I do not pity the cast given this material to work on. It’s borderline comedy and the only reason I didn’t rate this lower. Absolutely hysterical, highly recommend. -