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Moon Knight (2022)
Poorly managed..
I barely finished episode 6 and I simply had to close it because it couldn't get to me. There are only 6 episodes, but they needed 2 in order to get somewhere with the story. That leaves 4 more episodes of clustered intention getting nowhere. So what's Marvel now? A superhero show, a psychological thriller, or an ancient Egyptian recycle?
There are too many plot holes and I expected much more actual Egyptology, but instead I've got a confused main character who only leaves more questions than give answers.
I feel like they focused way too much on the protagonist's dual nature and left what should have been granted more attention unaddressed: Egyptian lore.
And after all... ancient Egyptian gods can move stars on the sky because they remember everything, but can't figure out a map that's got 5 stars on it. No, they need humans, of course.
Other than that, it generally felt poor and uninteresting. I struggled a lot to like it and care for the characters.
Conclusion: it endeavors to do too much and fails to touch essential aspects such as naking the story gripping.
Napoleon (2023)
There's too much negative criticism
Alright, so I've read a few reviews complaining about how this movie should actually be a mini tv series (at the very least) and I couldn't agree more.
But based on this premise, we all know that a movie about Napoleon, as a whole, is simply impossible. There's just too much to be compromised. Yet, Ridley Scott aims to do that and succeeds to the extent it is actually achievable.
How does anyone expect a movie that's supposed to include politics, historical facts, war, death, romance, drama, and character development be rounded perfectly?
As a matter of fact, I think the movie manages to touch a wide array of themes that make up the life of Napoleon. Surely, the help of the audience is needed in filling the gaps in between.
I don't think Napoleon was dull or cold. I think they very well portrayed his frustration derived from his height and his tyrannical attitude as a response in regulating his inferiority complex.
All in all, I think we, as audience, got more than we could have expected from such a movie that shoots against all odds.
After all, we're talking about one of the most complex biographies out there.
Leave the World Behind (2023)
If you think this is good, you have to redefine what good means
Just because the cast is cool, it doesn't mean it's gonna work, especially when you insert disgusting agendas, scattered across the movie thinking no one will notice.
Waiting two hours to get basically nowhere, to being told an "insightful" message everyone knows (the world is a mess and you have to act selfishly many times as a defense mechanism), to having more questions raised than before the movie even started, to having inserted a great deal of elements never explained, just got me utterly disappointed.
Don't get me wrong, I am fine with questions not being answered, I am even fine with plotholes (as long as they're reasonable), but having an ending that simply does not satisfy...that I cannot put up with. The ending is the most important aspect of a great movie. It has to be revealing, satisfying, and provoking. It has to either make you delve deeper into the meaning of the movie, or have you smirk wittily because you have a takeaway. Neither happened here.
This was only frustrating.
Totally not worth it. Netflix is really struggling to make good movies, I'm sorry.
Desperado (1995)
Annoyingly Clicheic
Ok so my thoughts went like this: progressively increasing from "alright, it's a bit far-fetched.
Everything was a total mess thrown together and then blown apart like pinata. Come on, man. I ain't even gonna bother enumerating all the annoyingly absurd scenes because I would run out of space and I would get boring myself then.
But, just to sum up, I've never seen such a clicheic movie. Ever. Couldn't even finish it, that's how bad it was, I'm sorry. This was reprehensible and annoying altogether and I couldn't decide which of the two was overdosed!
Tolkien (2019)
It finished where I actually hoped it would start
I have no intention to degrade or under-appreciate the movie itself, it was good. It follows Tolkien education and formation, as well as his love life. I believe it was inspiring, especially when the four boys got together and studied together, it somehow pushed my consciousness to be more dedicated to studying or adopt an attitude of constant improvement.
However.. and perhaps this turns out to be a personal preference (or call it fantasy if you like), I was expecting more of the writing itself, the post publishing life, his years as a professor. I was expecting more of his research, of his dedication, of his world building, of his... but some people find these things boring. Perhaps LOTR fans will relate.
From this point of view, I would rate the movie 1/10, because the actual writing that happens takes two to three minutes of the movie, which is sad, but I still want to believe the movie was quite good and that it catches key moment of Tolkien life that had a certain impact on his inspiration and world crafting.
For me, it just ended unexpectedly where I actually hoped it would start.
Looking forward for part 2. (cries in Elvish)