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The Serpent (2020)
What a mess
I had to see it through to the end to see if anything improved or started to at least pull things back together, but that was the first of many failures.
By the 30 minute mark I was rewinding to check if I'd missed something, I hadn't, the story was just being really poorly told.
There was nothing special about the acting, the action was average at best. It seems like it was trying to be clever putting bits and pieces of past throughout the story but it just made it less enjoyable and more tiring.
I'd like to say something positive about the film but the only good thing I can find to say about it is that I survived.
V for Vengeance (2022)
Oh dear
I went into this expecting very little and it still managed to disappoint.
The daytime vampire thing sucked (pun intended) when twilight did it and is no different here. The film is about as predictsble as a train going down a single track. By 20 minutes in you can start to figure out where it's going and by 40 minutes there'll be no guess work left.
The second star was purely because the action sequences at least flowed reasonably well, nothing outstanding, but not completely dreadful either. Nothing great to say about the acting. The girls just came across as potty mouthed teenagers. It's like they tried to give them depth and a backstory but nothing felt like it mattered.
My favourite part about the film was giving it a thumbs down on Netflix.
Obliterated (2023)
Pretty average netflix series
Fun story and concept. It's a good thing if you want to just switch off and not have to use your brain for a while. There's a few half decent laughs here and there and having everything being completely over the top makes it much easier to numb the pain from the complete stupidity of the rest of it.
By episode 6 I was starting to will it to end, I had to see it through, but it was getting hard for it to keep my attention.
The only big issue is that it's Clearly trying really hard to tick all the diversity boxes and it shows. It's like a huge bingo card and it covers every single part of the identity politics spectrum.
Battlefield 2042 (2021)
Disappointment is an understatement.
I downloaded this on ps plus last week and I really was not expecting anything this poor.
I know it was released in a bad way but had heard about it's improvements since so thought why not.
Firstly, the fact that the ps5 version cannot join friends on a ps4 version is irritating to say least. Playing the game is more of a chore than enjoyable. The game repeatably spawns you in front of someone who is firing in that direction leads to instant deaths. The maps are so empty and boring, more like playing a ps2 game than something released for this generation.
What really shows a complete lack of care put into the game is that it takes minutes sometimes just to load the weapons on the collection screen. Having to wait just to check my mastery progress on a single weapon is truly pathetic and can't remember ever seeing anything like it on a game.
Not only does this game look bad in the fps catagory, but also doesn't do well against previous iterations in its own series. It looks like a very rushed and another very poor cash grab by EA and Dice.
Once in the game, one thing that does load well and quickly is the store front for awful micro transactions. £8 for cosmetics is already a complete rip off, but on a first person shooter it's actually stupid too.
So this is it. The final time I will download an EA published game without extensive looks at reviews and gameplay. Even downloading it for free on ps plus, I still feel like I've been overcharged. I've had time wasted that I could have been playing many other games and enjoying myself.
There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)
More woke trash from Netflix
Wow! A new low. Forcing in woke points at every possible place. Instead of making sure they reach some kind of quota for virtue signal points, they should look at what made horror films great back in the day.
Taking out the aforementioned tripe, it's a worn idea that's been done many times before and much better. There's nothing that sticks out above any other home invasion movie, if you can even call it that. I do have to give a little bit of credit to the death scenes, they were somewhat creative compared to what has been seen in recent times.
I'd recommend spending the 90 minutes cutting grass with nail clippers or staring at a wall. Or at very least making a different choice.
Crossfire (2020)
Excellent way to capture the different angles
I found this to be so much of a better way of finding out everything that's going on. It seems so often that the news is either lying or that they're not telling me everything, this documentary not only confirms that, but also shows how much they're not telling us.
But here we see the views of the police officers, the victims and the instigators. It feels fair, like everyone is getting a say and giving the viewer the information they need to make their own much more informed opinion on the events shown.
Lauren and Scooter have yet again expertly captured a situation, answered questions and shown what the public need to see, yes parts of it hit hard and it's scary to see some of these real world issues. But I think it needs to be.
Borderless (2019)
Informative, interesting and compelling
After following this being made for a while, I was glad to be able to see the finished product. A very eye opening view on what's really happening across the borders throughout Europe. A fair and centred perspective given to show all the details you never see on the news, that you never hear about otherwise. Lauren and the crew potentially risked their lives in creating this footage and they've made it into a brilliant film.