Film Reviews by HM

Too long. One action scene after another, I got weary of the whole thing and myself and partner were looking at our watches after 60 minutes. Another none female lead character. Pretty soon there won't be roles for women in action films as they can't be bothered to write parts for them. The de-feminising continues, producing a one dimentional mentality that fails to satisfy.

The level of violence means the kids with the immaturity to enjoy this plotless nonesense can't watch it.

The movie borrows the scenario created by the Mad Max franchise but adds nothing and doesn't have Max in it! I won't be watching any further Max movies frankly.

Big bangs and little plot. How can a group of astronauts selected for their intelligence and expertise behave like dim teenagers? Well, it's in the script. Incidents occur that don't make sense. Frankly it is crass. Then, if muddled events are not enough, it dissolves into a slasher movie so we know what happens then don't we?

I fail to see how anybody can swallow this nonsense whole. Boyle has fashioned a Turkey.

Most si-fi novels and movies don't do character development and this is no different. The individuals behave as if from wooden personality central casting.

I really enjoyed this, the story of a nun struggling ot be taken seriously in her endevours to give orphans a better life in America having won an audiance with the Pope! Based on a true story means dramatic license and I am sure this is the case here. However, her determination to overcome predudice against Italian immigrants and to challenge all obsticles to achieve good before her illness carries her off is truly emotionally impactive. A feel good and harrowing tale and much recommended.

Excellent direction, performances and period feel enhance the experience; what a nice change from superheroes and blockbuster nonesense! See it and experience grounded human emotion.

Based on a true story apparently. However, the swearing which peppers the whole film seemed more local council estate 2024 than the 1920s. My older working class lady relatives would be spinning in their graves as their values would not have allowed this in their households. And as usual an over representation of black people who almost certainly didn't live in an English seaside town in those days and the national population was tiny and mostly living in ports to my knowledge. The only black female police constable in England pops up? And of course the men are all inept idiots, not least the police so that the only cop who could sort the situation is said black female cop. The casting seemed more like diversity propaganda which seems to be a priority amongst the London art elite these days.

Eventually it gets started and is amusing, but for me the woke, feminist nonsense spoilt it. The TRUE story would have been more impactive, especially not including day to day swearing as this distracted from the abnormal language used in the 'letters'.

On the positive side the female leads give top notch performances.

A foggy civil war movie seen through the eyes of journalists trying to get to Washington which is under seige. A kind of road movie. No real investigation as to who is fighting who and why, little effort to get relevant politics across. So, so action film in the end.

Pretty dismal frankly. The story of how Snow becomes his evil self, or should I say episode 1 of what sadly looks like a series. The build up drags on, we know what the games are about and this is the genesis, so the games are rather more crude and less interesting. The movie has nothing to say really that adds to what we consumed in the first series. The characters are not particularly well drawn and for some reason participants suddenly become best friends and take the bullet for each other in one case (not a spoiler), which is very unlikely in such a short time scale.

If you saw and liked the first series, I don't think this will set you alight. If not seen, then this could be a good warm up for the real thing which will seem all the better after this!

Rather Tim Burton in that an alternative world is created for the characters to move through. Very pretty, but what the heck this story is all about I have no idea. Over my head and I suspect most peoples. What did it tell me about the human condition? Nothing as far as I can tell. A baby's brain is transplanted into a dead woman's skull. Grown up body, but immature mind. So what? Stripped of experience how does an innocent relate to adult reality? That appears to be the premise.

It is overlong and a hard watch frankly.

An apparently straight forward accident becomes a murder enquiry. Slow burning but absorbing, it kept me dangling waiting for revelations that must surely come. Intelligent with the odd twist and turn. It kept me interested despite the slow pace, mainly because the performances are so strong. It worked for me, but in an age of 'fast food movies', it may demand too much of the blockbuster audience.

A mash up of ideas that don't hold together. Poor story telling, just not very skillful - give it a miss

Starts well, eye candy landscapes, a good lead character; a young women who wants to emulate the braves in her American Indian tribe. The Predator arives and lays waste to dozens of men. Luckily we have a kung fu/Arni/Bruce Lee women to settle its hash. Do us a favour.

She also beats up a few braves along the way. The de-feminisation of women continues as action films gravitate to simplistric violence with no idea what to do with females. Maybe using their brains? What they haven't got is the physical strength to take on stronger bigger men let alone Predator, who made evan Arni wet himself, so he used guile in the final act having admitted he couldn't take this thing on in a fight.

A pity really, but the blurring of super hero films and 'real' people films continues. Frankly I am losing inrerest in action genre films, they are getting dafter by the minutre. Give me a plot any day with some action but not this sillyness.

A tough hard watch as we follow a man in a French prison being ground down and humiliated but learning the rules as he tries to thrive. Rewarding and brutal. Not a good reflection on the French prison system. Much recommended crime thriller with an educational element.

Kids may like it, frankly it is just another super hero bore fest. Bearing in mind that the 'origin' story is the most interesting, it can only go downhill from here. Tongue in cheek throughout and with unbelievable characters in the hero's Hispanic family, the movie ejects any sense of drama and relationship with reality. OK it is a superhero film, but does it have to be this stupid? Plus we have another 'powerful' woman in charge of a high tech company she created; you know just like real life. ha, ha.

Eye candy but no substance. Is there anywhere to go for superhero movies? The bin probably.

Critics liked this when it came out. Frankly I was disappointed by this weird romantic comedy. A man who is clearly mentally ill meets cynical shock jock and the two make an unlikely pair as the jock tries to cure him and set up a romance with an odd woman who's personality owes more to script writing than any likely real person. Got bored. I don't understand the point of this story. As for Robin Williams, OK in small doses, much smaller than this please!

An excellent Egyptian thriller. A young lad qualifies to study at the most prestigeous Muslim University in Islam. Top clerics graduate from this. The leader of the Uni is highly regarded and his opinions carry heavy political weight, not least in Egypt. The secret services have a spy in the UnI to try and manipulate a new leader appointment. The lad is approached to replace the spy. Can he achieve his spy masters' aims and survive in the murky world of national security intrigue? An excellent thriller and an education all at once.

Not in keeping with the tongue in cheek originals. Just a play on the name and reputation. Exciting in the usual slasher movie methodology and left open for a sequal; no thanks. It wil keep you interested mind you as it is none stop gore and action., if you are in to that. I can take it or leave it; I'll leave it.