Change Your Image
johnnymlanigan-25715
Lists
An error has ocurred. Please try againReviews
Smile (2022)
An oversimplified Babadook
So let's start off with the good.
This film had some excellent set design, camera work, and the main actress did a great job. The mood that the film gives is very creepy and the ending scene is disturbing.
Now for the bad. The film is completely without any nuance. Every horror movie trope is used here, and that's fine, if you can reuse common tropes and make them original. Unfortunately, there's no originality here and the film just becomes all too familiar. Some of the supporting cast members do very little, but with the script, it's hard to blame them. Overall, this film got some praise for what I'm assuming is it's theme, which I won't get into for spoils. But for those of you who have seen the babadook, just know that this is basically the Hollywood, dumbed down version of that.
Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023)
Starts cliché, but gets thrilling. Shout-out to Netflix being trash
First off, the film: Unfortunately the first half felt very uninspired... I'd seen all of this a million times before... It may have worked with a director who was willing to take more risks.... That being said, the second half becomes much more intense and grand scale and I was fully immersed. Overall I'd give it a 7.5....
Buf thanks to Netflix, I'm dropping it to a 6 for its terrible theatrical release... There were random unrelated subtitles plastered on the screen and layered on top of each other... And thanks to that, when there was non English speaking going on, we had no idea what they were saying... When I complained to the theatre staff, they said it was Netflix and they had nothing to do with it... So really impressive, Netflix....