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Unit Eleven (2020)
Ambitious But Not Quite There
This film does some interesting stuff. The soundtrack was surprisingly good and there were a few really enjoyable scenes, the opening one stands out the most to me. The locations used were great at giving the film a grimey British feeling. Unit Eleven however is let down by its bad writing and poor performances. The actors feel like students and the writing often makes no sense. A lot of the dialogue feels like forced "street" talk and a lot is hard to understand due to the accents of the cast which is of course no fault of their own.
Overall I found myself enjoying some parts of the film and being immersed but more often found myself checking the run time to see how long was left. Not the worst film I've ever seen and I would be interested to see what this director could do with a bigger budget and better cast but when it all comes together this film wasn't great, hence why I gave it a 4/10.
Knights of the Damned (2017)
Enjoyable but very flawed
I want to start this review by saying that going into this film, I was ready to give it the benefit of the doubt as it's a low budget film trying something that could be considered ambitious. That being said, some flaws were inexcusable, saw as the writing. A lot of the dialogue felt stiff and completely fictionalized, as if the writers didn't actually hear themselves saying it out loud. This isn't help by a lot of the line delivery being patchy at best. Some scenes don't make much sense and some are completely unnecessary.
That all being said, I think there is an enjoyable experience to be found here. By no means am I planning to revisit this, at least not any time soon, however I did find myself enjoying parts of this. A lot of the action scenes were extremely interesting to me visually, with camera movements and sound effects used to add a real weight to it. The score also surprised me with how good and fitting it was to the film and it's setting. The film had some interesting ideas that didn't really get brought to their full potential, whether that's because of the horrendous CGI Dragon or the shoddy writing I don't know.
Regardless I think there's a good time to be had here if you just switch your brain off, take it for what it is, enjoy the few things it does well and laugh at the stuff it does badly. I feel my score of 4/10 represents this film perfectly.