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The Night Agent (2023)
Meh
The actors who played Diane Farr and Rose Larkin have been played by bad actors, made worse by bad writing. Rose is a hacker with the same furrowed eyebrows and grim face in all her scenes. And she's a cliche hacker who can just tap a few buttons and get into any system. The actor who plays Diane Farr just doesn't feel the part for a Whitehouse honcho. Again flat face with a swear word thrown in every sentence to make herself sound bossy. Don't these people have families or things to do other than office work? The plot was far fetched, but would have led to a good payoff if they had invested time in the foreign leader and the POTUS. At the end, I just felt no empathy towards who lives and who dies. The only positive thing is that the protagonist seemed to a good actor.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
Boring villains
I see a lot of viewers complaining about the lack of chemistry between Falcon and Winter Soldier. However, I think the letdown for me were the bad guys. The young girl (who can't act for her life) and the whole Flag smashers gang were massively boring to be honest and didn't build enough tension for Falcon, Bucky and John Walker to tap into. The flag smashers motto was pretty vague and they just looked like regular street teen thugs asking for a nice flogging. The stakes were never too high. Besides, it seems now every other jerk now has access to the super soldier serum, and surprisingly they are even able to give our superheroes some nice thrashing. Takes away some aura from Captain America and the Winter Soldier. Wish they had given more twists and turns to John Walker's character.
The Girl on the Train (2021)
Ribhu Dasgupta - Remember the name
Ribhu Dasgupta has to be the epitome of the untalented uncreative hacks Bollywood has filled itself with. Give him great plots and stories on a platter to copy from and he'll still convert them in a steaming pile of garbage. The first 1 hour of this movie felt like a rag doll created from disjoint parts. And the rest of the movie suffers because of the lack of character development. Pathetic acting from almost everyone has obviously contributed to it being a trainwreck. Netflix cannot be a content leader with such pieces of trash.
Tehran (2020)
Unintentional 'teenage' spy story
I'm not kidding. The female protagonist, supposedly an award winning Mossad spy, does these things in quick succession while being chased by Iranian police and secret agents: participate in a political protest, roam around in public, compromise her extended family which gives her shelter (even steal one of their passports), go rogue inexplicably, and on a partying spree (yes, hiking, drugs, dancing, sex). This is probably a spy drama coming out as a teenage low IQ fare. From a neutral viewer's standpoint, Iranians, supposedly the bad guys, eventually garner my sympathy. Better luck Mossad, take your Shakira the Teenage partymonger spy back.
Raised by Wolves (2020)
Better call Sol!
Though the events take place much in future, it seems as if crusaders from the medieval times changed into white attire and time travelled in the form of the Mithraic and somehow their IQs never evolved. We see religious fanatics who hear voices in their heads, who link unexplained phenomena to their prophecies from their prophet Sol and who blindly follow their selfish tribal leaders. The robots are still better, and make the viewers connect with them. However, the overall story is pretty muddled with an uninteresting backstory and lukewarm characters. Better call Sol. Only a prophet can show them the light.
Into the Night (2020)
Too many idiots per square feet
One line summary: A group of unlikable, whining jerks, bereft of any common sense or empathy, fighting like schoolkids over morals while the world is ending.
Game of Thrones (2011)
Increasingly dumb
D&D turned the characters into hypocrites and dumbos. Where do I start? So, Varys serves the realm like a diehard. Allows the noblest child on earth, Joffrey, to be the king at the cost of Ned Stark's head. And somehow Dany doesn't feel like a potentially good ruler to him? Is she worse than Joffrey? Bran Stark was an even bigger letdown. The Three eyed Raven storyline was just for passing time. The Night king, apparently the biggest villain,gets lesser screen time than even Ramsey and dies a freakish death. He can see Bran even while he was warging, he but couldn't see Arya sneak up on him. Tyrion and Sam somehow lose their intellect over a course of a few seasons. Arya became reluctant to use her Faceless James Bond skills. In fact, at the end of the show, only Sansa appears to have come out having learnt something and with more intellect. All others come out dumber. And rest are dead to create shock value. And Jon-Dany's romance was colder than the shivering sea.
Annihilation (2018)
A cure for insomnia
I was having trouble sleeping. On my birthday, my wife gifted me a ticket to this movie. Best birthday gift ever. I slept like a grizzly in hibernation. Nothing would bring me to life. The theatre owner had to call 911 on me. The only scene I could remember is "It's a trick of the light". Legendary quote. Human Intelligence was baptised and reborn with that statement.
Jurassic Park III (2001)
Dumb movie!
So you want to search for your lost kid in an island with marauding dinosaurs and you dress yourself as if you are out for golfing on a weekend? And you take along a few screamers who would be massive liabilities in the mission? Heights of dumbness. Line up the writers and unleash the raptors on them.