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Nick Friesen (96 KP) rated Wonder Woman (2017) in Movies

Jul 11, 2017  
Wonder Woman (2017)
Wonder Woman (2017)
2017 | Action, Fantasy, War
9
8.2 (517 Ratings)
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Strong female characters (3 more)
Love Interest without a "damsel in distress"
Not too dark, and not too happy either
The most cohesive DCEU film to date
Not the most fascinating story (0 more)
A Triumph for Women Everywhere (and the DCEU)
Gal Gadot is perfect. She kicks ass and looks great doing it, dominating every frame she inhabits. Thanks to Patty Jenkin's guiding hand, Gadot's iteration of Wonder Woman does so without becoming yet another one-dimensional sex symbol. The movie itself is the most cohesive and fun segment the DCEU has offered yet. Free of the glowering and overbearing lens Zack Snyder has placed over Superman and Batman, Wonder Woman touches on themes of hope and discovered humanity that were yet to be seen in DC's fledgling movie universe. Even if the story is a little basic, and a little reminiscent of Captain America: The First Avenger, it stands on its own two feet and puts up a good fight for two hours and twenty minutes.
  
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Niten. NR (75 KP) rated The Mummy (2017) in Movies

Jul 27, 2017  
The Mummy (2017)
The Mummy (2017)
2017 | Action, Adventure
6
5.1 (122 Ratings)
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A sound action adventure and not as bad as all that. (3 more)
Good intro
Action sequences and effects.
Egyptian Princess of Darkness babe.
Unoriginal (0 more)
Or.... Dark Universe the beginning.
It was on so I watched it, as you do. I remember being gripped and impressed by the first 20 mins, it's a good start and does its job well. The rest of the film is totally watchable. I've seen that it gets some stick but the story line is solid, it's funny in parts with a good amount of action. The cast is more that decent. I fancied the Princess Ahmanet but, that just a personal positive for me and to be fair she does a great job. Tom Cruise does his job well as does Annabelle Wallis. Of course there's a big set up for more of the same. Not too much to complain about other than I've seen similar before. Don't be put off by the overly negative and easily influenced.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Invisible Man (2020) in Movies

Mar 2, 2020  
The Invisible Man (2020)
The Invisible Man (2020)
2020 | Horror, Sci-Fi
5
7.5 (45 Ratings)
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Latest updating of the much-filmed Wells novel (though, to be honest, it bears almost no resemblance) has struggled from the wreckage of the Dark Universe project, but that doesn't mean it's any good. Young woman escapes from an abusive relationship with a brilliant optical scientist, but finds herself plagued by strange and disturbing events. Suspense builds - or it would, if the film wasn't actually called The Invisible Man.

Seriously, this is an issue: you're ahead of the main character from the word go, so the slow-burn build-up to her actually figuring out what you already know gets tedious quite quickly. There are some quite well-mounted sequences in the second half, and the recasting of the tale as a fable dealing with paranoia is reasonably done, but points knocked off for an irritatingly mishandled ending that only serves to make the film worse and longer. Disappointing in all sorts of ways.
  
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David McK (3791 KP) rated Star Trek: Discovery - Season 4 in TV

Oct 8, 2023 (Updated Oct 8, 2023)  
Star Trek: Discovery - Season 4
Star Trek: Discovery - Season 4
2022 |
5
5.0 (1 Ratings)
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Michael Burnham, saviour of the universe (again)
Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery, now only available to watch internationally on Paramount+ after they pulled it at the last minute from Netflix.

As a result, it took me roughly 1.5 years after release before I even got a chance to watch it.

Not that, having now done so, I seemed to miss all that much: this time around, the key season-long threat is a mysterious DMA ("Dark Matter Anomoly") that has appeared in the galaxy, causing untold death and destruction, and which requires Burnham and co to travel beyond the confines of their galaxy to deal with (cue a lot of crying and emoting and speechifying and very little actually 'doing'),

I had though, by the last couple of episodes, it would turn into a modern-day Voyager, but nope.

Strange New Worlds is the better modern day Trek show.