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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
It's not Tolkien, and it's not good.
This show is not connected to Tolkien's Middle Earth in any meaningful way.
The costuming is bad, looking cheap, including armor-print shirts instead of actual armor in some cases.
The dialogue is ham-fisted, attempting to sound more profound than it is. What's seen in the trailers is really representative of what you're going to see.
A particular character is insufferable and never wrong, and better than all of the others in every way, exemplifying inept writing, especially when this is nothing like the character Tolkien wrote. And the flashback to childhood makes this look more like a Phase 4 Marvel Movie addition than part of Tolkien's world.
Special effects were competent, as was the music, and some of the actors were fine with what they were handed. But that's about as much credit as I can give the show.
Heatstroke (2013)
Overall: "Meh" but one thing ruined it.
(Spoilers throughout) Several times they are running away from a plane. It is flying directly at them, and they duck for cover just as it passes overhead. So they are in the pilot's full view until he passes over, at which point they duck for cover just as the pilot's line of sight is broken anyway. And it's not like this happened once, they do it over and over. Additionally, the fact that the pilot is always flying straight towards them from behind. If it were circling in broader and broader paths, it should have come at them from at least one other direction. He also conveniently turned around shortly after passing overhead as well. The only reasonable explanation is that he saw them, but is just messing with his employers by saying he doesn't.
Otherwise, it was a decent movie. The tone of the movie was such that either of the main characters could have died at the end. Meaning they didn't seem to have "plot armor". I think at least two water-holes were skipped over, and the movie would have benefited from a little more protagonists vs. environment, and less of the protagonists being chased by the nasty men. The hallucinations of the father worked pretty well, as hallucinations do occur under such conditions. The hyena being (or representing) the father fell flat.