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Guy Ritchie has lost his touch in a big way. A silly gangsta movie (all his movies are), but this one without style or substance.
The success of "John Wick" has brought everyone on board the revenge fantasies; only some do it better than others. This was a rather style-less interpretation and even the wooden performance by Jason Statham didn't save it.
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These were both a complete and utter waste of time. "Drishyam 2" was about the cops reopening the investigation into events 7 years prior. Again, portrayed as corrupt and bungling, but a clever Inspector General thinks he has Vijay only to discover that Vijay, yet again, for an uneducated theatre owner has picked up a surprising number of tricks from the movies he watches.
Funny, how they break from speaking in Hindi to sarcastically utter in perfect English a phrase that obviously everyone knows.
And "Nobody 2" - I mean, if you went to see it you probably enjoyed it, but - again, a pretty hard "NO", just a little too silly. 1 was 1 too many, two is two too many.
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So this, the recommendation of the people I work for.
Interesting, in that it has a focus on "family values" no longer extent in the west, and that the issues the "hero" - the nondescript everyman who realizes or drives the plot from scenes that he's seen in movies - an expert in all things watched previously on TV in his little "Mirage" cable outlet.
And interesting in the crime that drives the plot, the perception of police (bumbling corrupt fat idiots who - while putting together what happened, don't get their resolution), the crime of honour, the "everyman" who has no education vs his wife who got to grade 4, the relatively comfortable life they're both living...
On the surface, the same, but lift the stones and it's an entirely different world. Entertaining, I'd give it 4 stars, most of that for the insight into other worlds...Now watching Drishyam 2. Which has already started with the Meta, so I'm seeing the promise...
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Now I'd probably bookmarked this to watch later, then forgot, then somehow YouTube began showing me videos of MAGAT Idiots ranting about how it was all left-wing propaganda and BS and of course I had to watch it.
It wasn't bad. Leonardo Dicaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, a comedy/suspense drama about a "French 75" resistance fighter that becomes relevant again after 16 years in hiding. And, by relevant I mean it's sending up the current administration, migrant detention, Christian Agenda. So, say 4.5 Bananas...
Although, to be true, the left has demonstrated no-where near the levels of organization required to be the official "Resistance".
But they should start, and soon...
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Which was a curious recommendation from a neighbour (Kramer) - about a Mobile Seamstress who happens across a drug-deal-gone-bad and sees a chance to escape her life.
The absurdity kind of makes it, and the fact that I'd seen a couple of clips on Facebook Reels, and it's ridiculously high reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, but - well, curious, but ...
Ariadne again, in a different world.
What struck me most was that I couldn't reconcile the accents, actors, props & scenery. That, from the reviews I read, was the intent. It succeeded.
Anyways, one more permutation of the human experience imagined, lived, and now thankfully gone.