A Closed and Common Orbit
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Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body,...
Beat the Boss 2 (17+)
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The Boss is back and ready to make your life a living hell. But you're not the same good guy taking...
Beat the Boss 2
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The Boss is back and ready to make your life a living hell. But you're not the same good guy taking...
Woman of Courage: Collector's Edition
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A Woman of Courage Makes an Epic Journey Take a three-thousand mile journey with Amanda Pearson...
Out of Breath
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Reason to Breathe and Barely Breathing , the first two books in the trilogy, are both US...
Barely Breathing (Breathing, #2)
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Barely Breathing by Rebecca Donovan is a US bestseller and the incredible sequel to Reason to...
Muse of Nightmares
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In the wake of tragedy, neither Lazlo nor Sarai are who they were before. One a god, the other a...
David McK (3600 KP) rated Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) in Movies
Nov 7, 2019 (Updated Jul 24, 2022)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Terminator: Salvation
Terminator: Genisys
Forget them all.
(as an aside: notice how they get progressively worse as they went along?)
Right from the opening pre-credit sequence, this sets itself up as a sequel to the superlative Terminator 2: Judgment Day, ignoring all the above-named moves (and TV series). It's also no secret that this stars Linda Hamilton's kick-ass Sarah Connor (who was unceremoniously killed off off-screen in Terminator 3, before having her own TV show in the Sarah Connor Chronicles), with Gabriel Luna's Rev-9 a more worthy successor to Robert Patrick's T-1000 than Kristinna Loken's T-X and with the (inevitable) return of Arnie himself as an original series Terminator.
Like the first 2 movies, this is essentially a chase movie, with Connor and co on the run from the Rev-9 (from a future that has never heard of Cyberdyne or Skynet) while trying to protect Natalia Reyes Danni from the Rev-9: I also have to say that, like a lot of James Cameron's movies, this features powerful female roles, with Arnie really only along as back-up.
David McK (3600 KP) rated The Matrix Resurrections (2021) in Movies
Feb 9, 2022 (Updated Oct 1, 2023)
Pre Millennium.
Just at the start of our current high-tech always-on society.
And The Matrix was released, becoming hugely influential in the process and popularising the concept of 'bullet time'.
Both the sequels (Reloaded and Revolutions) were released during 'the year of the Matrix' in 2003, doubling down on the philosophical ponderings of the first movie (in particular, during Reloaded, with the whole still-to-this-day confusing Architect scenes), with Revolutions also seemingly leaving the trilogy with nowhere to go.
Until nearly 20 years later, when one of the two Wachowski siblings decided to resurrect both Neo and Trinity in this.
I's very much a film of two halves, with the first half in particular hugely self-referential (lots of nods and winks to the audience, and even clips from the earlier films shown on TV screens within the movie), while the second half settles down more into your standard action fare.
Whilst enjoyable enough, it lacks anything to match the sheer pizzaz of the first movie, or even the Freeway chase/burly brawl/chateau fight from the second or the Neo Vs Smith showdown in the third.
The Darkest Sin
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Set in Renaissance Florence, The Darkest Sin is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop...
Historical fiction Renaissance Florence Italy