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The Rookie: Double Trouble (2023)
Possibly the worst television I've ever seen
I watch The Rookie as a sort of secret treat when I'm tired and am looking for something completely mindless. I admit to a certain fondness for the characters and some of the stories. True Detective it is not. If you want to see a good cop show about life as a police officer in LA then you should be watching 'Southland' - the acting is top notch, the stories are believable and appear to resemble credible portrayals of the lives of LA police officers going about their business. The Rookie is a sort of cream puff, low stakes, completely unbelievable version of Southland. True Detective (series 1) is just on another level altogether. This particular episode of The Rookie is so utterly awful that I gave up watching it after about three minutes. These actors are not that great to begin with, let's just say it out loud because we all know it. The show is basically pretty crap as well as I mentioned at the beginning of this review. But - this episode - might actually have forced me to quit my guilty habit of watching low level network rubbish altogether; because that's precisely what this is.
Let's not settle for this, let's begin to assume that the audience is intelligent, and let's raise the bar. Enough of bad television, it's a shockingly irresponsible waste of time and money on the part of everyone involved.
Can't wait for True Detective Season 4...
Dating Game Killer (2017)
Embarrassingly Bad, Simply Terrible
If you have a medical something license and some time to kill - you might find this one of the funniest things you've ever seen. I wish I had the former but I don't, nevertheless this "movie" made me laugh out loud involuntarily several times. I do not enjoy saying negative things, and I genuinely feel sorry for all those who were involved in this bungled attempt. It's a wonderfully rare - so bad it's hilarious one. Every cliché, from writing to acting is thrown in here for good measure, but to such an extent that you won't be able to help alternating between groaning, putting your head in you hands in despair, rolling your eyes, and finally just giving in and giggling all the way to the most absurdly written and poorly acted courtroom finale you will have ever seen. If you remember the scene in 'Bananas' when Woody Allen acts as his own lawyer and switches between his lawyer persona and his witness persona whilst jumping in and out of the witness box for comic effect, well the same happens in this film but comedy, whilst not the intention, is definitely the result. The lead actor is so awful it's practically unbelievable. And he's not alone, oh no, he is matched by everyone else in the cast. So, either miss this completely, which would prob be a very sensible move, or, I refer you back to the first sentence in this review. Get some friends round, and work out a shot game for every time you see one of the absurdly portrayed detectives says, "Damn it! He got away again!" You will be completely wasted.
Berlin Syndrome (2017)
An utter waste of time.
Oh dear. We've seen so many versions of this film before. It's depressing to think of the amount of time and money spent on this. So many dutiful and professional crew members, a lot of talented and intelligent people, and several million dollars all went swirling down the drain for a semi interesting but in the end, pointless and depressing story. What are we supposed to feel when leaving the theatre? If it's a little annoyed, pretty frustrated, and thoroughly depressed, then hats off - job well done. I fail to understand how films like this get made and so many gifted people waste so much time and effort making them. Is it so awful to aim to make a commercial film that a majority of audiences will enjoy? Is that so terrible? With so much wonderful material available to film production companies and talented directors and actors, why is it that depressing and predictable stories like this get made so often. Oh dear.