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Escape Room (2019) 7/10
Entertaining and very fast paced, but ruined by the ending. Is a sequel in the makings or was this a pilot to a series? (Not a bad concept for a series). I think I preferred the Skeet Ulrich “Escape Room” from 2017 slightly better due to a better ending.
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Polar (2019) 7/10
Like two very different movies smashed together. And the outcome? Well, quite ridiculous but pretty badass. Maybe a little too wannabe badass. But it was certainly entertaining.
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Big Man Japan (2007)
7/10 A documentary group follows Daisato, a man who is following in his family's tradition of protecting Tokyo from wacky giant monsters via being jolted with electricity and becoming a giant man with a beating stick. As times of have changed, he's not at all as appreciated as his forebears, and is estranged from family and his agent. Written, directed and starring Japanese comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto, the film is sometimes incomprehensible, often quirky, sometimes funny, winking at Japanese sci-fi and kaiju TV shows, and splitting between lighthearted and languish. The Signal (2014) 6/10 Three MIT college students road trip through the Southwest. Nic, and his buddy, Jonah, are moving his girlfriend Hailey (Olivia Cooke) to California. The trio detour to confront an ominous hacker. The film is in the dark heady emotional sci-fi horror vein of Soderbergh's Solaris and Duncan Jones' Moon, just not nearly as successful. I didn't so much mind the lack of narrative information, in the space between when our heroes go underground and the ending reveal, rather that span's discomfort and disorientation didn't seem to aid or setup a comprehensible catharsis. Still, the film direction is effectively stylish, accompanied by an evocative soundtrack. |
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Have you seen the Signal (2007)? Completely different movie, just the same name. Worth it.
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