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Originally Posted by JonE(vil) ↗

Jurassic World Rebirth. 2025
2/10
7th in the overall series, forth in the world franchise. Casual viewers don't have to seen any of the films. With a few references to the original. Its slightly interesting, but a very safe, colourful, boring film. The dino cgi is 'impressive', but the pre set moves by the actors, reveals the set up and fails to inspire.

I'm a total mark for the Jurassic franchise and even I couldn't find any redeeming factors.

1/10 worst of all 7 films, if they are still torturing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay they should drop the waterboarding and plug in the DVD player.

[JonE(vil)]

This review was Oct 16th 2023
Mission Impossible- dead reckoning pt 1. 2023.
4/10
Ethan Hunt and his mates are up against A.I.
Interesting concept, at least at the start. But with with a run time of two hours forty five minutes, it sets itself up for failure. With each film the ambition and scale of the stunts and concepts to push the plot have increased. This time they used the concept of a rouge A.I. but central to the plot is a human.
So the main 'villian' doesn't really have any part. After and hour forty five i lost interest as it seemed to be going nowhere and getting bogged down in a relentless effort to add twists.


Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning 2025.
6/10
Mission success. Dramatic on the stunts, staging of fights, camera movement, edited scenes linking the whole 'series'. It is a epic action film, with a plot that held no interest. Earlier films are stand alone good films, starting with De Palma.

[JonE(vil)]

A complete unknown. 2024
3/10
Bob Dylan bio pic.
Very limited to a certain time and events. Nice quiet kind of film, nothing really stands out, filmed well, lead actor is good as Dylan, comes across as shy and prickly in general. Has all the classic early Dylan songs and shows how he paired up with Joan Baez. Nothing really memorable.

[JonE(vil)]

Le couperet. (The ax) 2005. France.
6/10.
A executive in a paper company wants a job like he had before, but he needs to eliminate any other applicants for the one he wants.
Interesting black comedy that has a steady pace, small cast and a interesting plot. Being he is the only one involved, the film mostly follows him, but has a few different elements that add nicely. Not much depth to it, just a interesting film about wanting to 'stay on top', so to speak.

[JonE(vil)]

The Limey. 1999
8/10
A criminal from England goes to the States, to find out what happened to his daughter.
Standard revenge thriller, not too many surprises, with a 90 minute run time. The way the film is edited makes it interesting to watch, it uses memories to establish the connection between the lead character and his dead daughter. Some other scenes are repeated or pure imagination. The lead actors cockney slang way of talking amongst the americans, provides a little spark of humour.

[JonE(vil)]

Killing them softly. 2012
7/10
A robbery of a illegal card game leads to contracts on the lives of several people.
Slow burn crime drama, dialogue heavy, but with a bit over 90 minute run time, it sets up the story nicely. Throughout the film there are bits of audio and video from real politicians on the state of the economy, which could be seen as the brutal nature of greed and consequences.

[JonE(vil)]

Blagas lessons. 2023. Bulgaria.
8/10
Drama about a pensioner who gets involved in phone scamming, due to her own misfortune. Small cast that centers on the main lead character. Two hour run time with a steady pace, it is a moderately bleak film, with a few simple plot threads that reoccur throughout.
Main takeaway is a modern society where the elderly are quietly ignored and are preyed upon by savy criminals.

[JonE(vil)]

The snitch. (Yadang) 2025 South Korea.
6/10
A young bloke who is set up and gets caught with drugs, becomes a informant for a prosecutor. He is able to get in with dealers and set up a bust for the prosecutor.
Good crime drama that has a interesting plot, alot of characters, but with a two hour run time fails to really spark. There is the usual fall from grace, when a dealer exacts revenge on him. This is when the second hour starts, along with a disgruntled cop and a addict everything is switched around. But it doesn't feel like a ramping up of the story, it just continues along.

[JonE(vil)]

Lemonade Joe. 1964. Czechoslovakia
5/10
A typical white dressed, blonde haired gunman comes to a drunken town and converts them all to lemonade.
Interesting musical, that is set in the american wild west era.
Lighthearted film, it has a one colour saturation. The plot involves women falling for the 'hero' and brothers reuniting. Not a very engaging plot which made for a kinda tedious watch.

[JonE(vil)]

Captain Volkonogov escaped. 2021. Russia.
8/10
A captain in secret police just prior to WW2, gets a bunch of files of people he convicted as being 'enemies of the state'. He goes to the living relatives of some, tells them the truth and asks for their forgiveness, in order to avoid hell.
Slow burn drama that is both bleak and harsh. The plot is well crafted, as it is a dead comrade of his that informs him of his fate if he can't get one person to forgive him of his crimes. No levity or action scenes, it is a exploration of guilt built up over time, that weighs heavy on the lead character.