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Alien: Covenant (2017)
Fails on all levels
This film is completely predictable from the opening sequence to the "twist" at the end. None of the characters are allowed to develop in a way that connects them to the audience. All the characters act stupidly. Every decision by every person is really the dumbest choice they could make at that particular moment. This movie doesn't have enough horror to be a horror movie, it doesn't have enough action to be an action movie, it lacks the thrills to be a thriller, it falls far too short of the philosophical to be a thinkers movie. It does tie Prometheus to Alien, but in a way that is a waste of effort, and a waste of the viewers time.
Rain Without Thunder (1992)
Watching this will make you wish you had been aborted
All abortion debate hysterics aside, this movie is awful. The acting makes you think the body snatcher pods got to all the actors before they filmed this, or maybe they passed out horse tranquilizers before filming. It's wooden and like they are being fed their lines as they recite them. Just awful acting, even from the few pros in this waste of celluloid.
On top of that the docudrama scene jumping is just another distraction. Maybe the director thought he could save the uninspired acting by jumping between mediocre monologues? It didn't work.
I made it through 30 minutes of this really bad movie before I gave up and watched an old western rerun. The horses in the western were better actors than the people in this movie.
Avoid at all costs unless you are rabidly pro abortion and want to reaffirm that the anti abortion people want to turn you into a really bad actor in gray coveralls to punish you for killing the unborn.
Helen (2009)
Too long, too dark
This movie is way too long for the events it depicts, and way too dark both in content and in the film. I understand the under lighted scenes are supposed to reflect the darkness of depression, but it's as annoying to watch two hours of no one bothering to turn on a light bulb as it is to watch the scenes being drawn out for time needlessly.
I also found it was a completely predictable story.
That being said the score was really good, as was the acting from everyone in this movie. If a half hour more was moved to the cutting room floor it wouldn't be missed and the movie would be better for it, but it would still be a movie few people will want to sit through, a dark drama on clinical depression.