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Unthinkable (2010)
Logical holes, but quite exciting when watched with 90% of a brain..
It's a typical 2000s script, in which the shock-effect is valued more than consistency and logic. The acting is great, but cannot overcome the shortcomings of logical errors within the script. Hard to describe it without spoilers (which is mandatory for reviews anyway IMO), but the measures of the main character against the wager of the antagonist, do not line up psychologically. And it's hard to ignore. Some unlikely back and forth of characters and circumstances, a try to keep tension in the plot, mixed with a few psychologically unlikely detours and shortcuts, are framing the topic of this review: unlikely.
The try to depict a moral dilemma is incomplete, because of logical holes in the premise and execution, fatal, for a psychological thriller à la Se7en. All in all: Interesting, quite exciting, but only when watched with 90% of a brain.
The Wrath of Becky (2023)
average of 6.1 ? - How on earth..
Folks, let me be clear - I've only made it through the first 10 minutes and then had to make the choice of either continue ironically, or stop watching. The latter was the case.
How this movie has gotten to an average of 6.1 (til now) is beyond me. A weaker try to create some kind of teenage - "Kill Bill". Comedic ingredients fall on it's half baked SNL face, daydream fantasy sequences about killing an annyoing costomer have been done before A LOT and much more in style than here.
Somebody assembled a movie script with washed-out parts and bad comedy elements. Let's leave the whole chliche revenge-theme and black older, wisdom-spreading and joke-cracking landlady a la Deadpool aside ... and her potential to become together with her dog (which "is a good boy...") the perfect either victim or partner in crime... - But having the kill-fantasy be set off by a normal: "Thanks sweetheart.." from a older male diner-costomer and then the lecturing, PC, overly feministic reply of "it's not sweetheart, it says Becky on the name tag..." - THAT was it for me. Lol
yeah. Not good.
Foe (2023)
dialogues and the whole script are not natural
First of all let me say, it's been a while since a wrote a review. Now I see: minimum characters 600. What is this, school homework? Ridiculous. That's one way to sort out the opinion of average viewers. Now all one can read is overly descriptive reviews, from people who are a just little bit too much in love with their own words. The normal impression of an average person after watching a movie is not a small essay. Jesus Christ folks. Censorship well meant, gone wrong, isn't THAT one of the topics of the decade..
There is not much to say without spoiling the movie, which should apply to literally every review a person should read beforehand. Not really done on this platform. I wonder if that has something to to with the minimum character limit. Lol
It took me a while, to pinpoint what is wrong with the movie: The dialogues are not natural. Its characters often do not interact in a comprehensible way. It is written and acted like a play for the stage which does the typical thing: taking it into an artificial, quite exaggerated art form. Too many actions, reactions and circumstances are warped, in a way to constantly let the viewer chew on things, stumble across illogical dialogues and causalities. It celebrates its weirdness too much. It becomes exhausting.
Acting is great, but a little too much of that of a stage play also. A bit much l'art pour l'art - art for art's sake.
One Bedroom (2018)
dialoges too plastic & acting too unnatural for me to watch further...
...than 10 minutes. I'm sorry, I was willing and with a good expectation but my suspicions that rose in the first barber-shop scene were confirmed enough, by the second scene(Apartment), to stop watching. Chester A. Sims II was mercilessly over-acting his part, rest of the cast was either quite okay or mediocre stage-over-acting. And at least as far as I watched it, the script had no natural feel whatsoever... sorry.