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The Responder (2022)
Interesting, captivating, and very unrealistic
When all other officers are wearing bodycams but not the protagonist..
Yet very well acted and appropriate paced.
I'll keep watching it regardless.
Bonus: Freeman's outstanding Liverpool accent.
The Unforgivable (2021)
Perpetually slow till the end
Not a bad movie as such.
But started slow and ended as slow, without anything happening. If you do watch it, you will ask yourself 'is that it. All this time for that?'
It's like watching CRASH but with a single dimentional plot.
Long pauses and dramatic music on their own don't translate to success.
Not a movie you will ever re-watch.
Ragnarok (2020)
Brilliant, just don't change it
Watched it all one episode after another in an evening. Brilliant atmosphere, good acting, excellent plot.
It builds up slowly but not slow enough to get you checking your smartphone.
It gets fast when it needs to without skipping anything. Can't wait for Season 2.
My only concern is that, in a typically Scandinavian manner, there is always the risk of environmental activism and anti-racism malarkey may take over. Please keep this out and focus on keeping up they great work done in Season 1.
Rise of Empires: Ottoman (2020)
Historically accurate with an Italian fetish
As a a Greek, I could have been pre-emptively negative about this series.
However, I cannot ignore the fact that the producers did some serious research and consultation before they put pen to paper.
From the small conversations to the serious arguments, it appears that they have checked first with the historians.
There is good acting, good atmosphere, good costumes, decent battle scenes and loved the fact that the producers were careful with not allowing the documentary bit to take over.
The only three things that stopped me from giving it a 10/10 are that
-) The utter obsession with Justinian to the point the whole series is about him and how heroic the Italians were.
-) The obsession with portraying all Greeks as treacherous cowards (you couldn't help yourselves there :)
-) Portraying the Turks as inferior and Mehmed a hotheaded and reckless
I strongly recommend and can't wait for the sequel (probably about Vienna)