forehead1
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Member Since: 26 Dec 2009
Location: UK
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Titan: The OceanGate Disaster (2025) - Rated 16 Jun 2025
Legend (1985) - Rated 07 Jun 2025
Final Destination 3 (2006) - Rated 29 May 2025
"The weakest of the three but still much of a muchness. Some good deaths including a great scene in a tanning salon, but others flash past so fast you barely know what’s happened. Again the characters figure out exactly what’s going on implausibly quickly, but again this constant exposition is meaningless as the order of deaths is never clearly established anyway. Winstead acts like she's going for an Oscar."
Navy Seals (1990) - Rated 28 May 2025
"After an uninspiring opening Whalley appears and her character brings a bit of genuine intrigue to the story. Then the film decides to forget about her completely and go back to the shooting stuff, but at least by this point there’s a plot and you’ve got to know some of the characters. There’s a half decent cast, a budget for the effects and an earnest attempt to represent these guys accurately (until the final chase scene) but something about the story and script feels really off."
Kiss the Girls (1997) - Rated 25 May 2025
"It just goes to show how many kidnapping serial killer things we’ve had over the past 25+ years that this has gone from quite fresh and exciting back in the late ‘90s to feeling like a shitty episode of Criminal Minds. The cast and direction are okay and everything starts fine but the plot is dumb and increasingly turns into implausible nonsense, so much so that by the end you almost feel you could be watching any old corny made-for-TV drama."
One Killer Punch (2016) - Rated 23 May 2025
"A good 45-minute Cutting Edge highlighting three guys who killed people – in very different circumstances – with one punch. Includes interviews with most of the main players, makes you think, and covers about all you’d expect to in its compact runtime."
Three Identical Strangers (2018) - Rated 22 May 2025
"An incredible tale that perhaps doesn’t have quite enough legs for the runtime, for while the meeting of the three and their backstories is amazing - with the revelations about the ‘experiments’ even more so - the limited information available on the latter means the second half of this doc doesn’t really have a satisfactory conclusion. There's a fair bit of unscientific speculation here, so the results of the study would actually be fascinating to see."
A Life for a Life (1998) - Rated 20 May 2025
"This true story of some poor simpleton sentenced for a heinous crime he didn’t commit focuses on the bit most dramatizations of miscarriages of justice gloss over: the actual time in prison for the wrongfully accused; the laborious, often unrewarding, fight for an appeal by those on the outside; and the effect this has on all those involved. A pretty depressing but effective watch: not ‘enjoyable’, more harrowing and affecting, and eventually anger-inducing."
The Deepest Breath (2023) - Rated 19 May 2025
"This was pretty decent - nothing special but managed to hold my attention. The subjects are odd but earnest, it builds up the ominous tension well, and is best watched if you have no idea about anyone in it. Could have had a bit more background on the sport, how on earth people get into it in the first place, and why the hell they have wannabe pros without oxygen tanks as their ‘safety’. Would also be nice if this lot dived into beautiful coral and colourful fish, not just deep dark holes."
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! (2019) - Rated 16 May 2025
"Less Super Size Me and more Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm, but that’s not a bad thing. Takes a while to settle down and truth be told it’s not that informative but is fairly entertaining, and what facts are there all seem to be legit. The restaurant theme reveal ending is good (and absolutely necessary for the whole thing to work). Could possibly have been a mini series of shorter docs as it tries to cover a bit too much in too little time here."
