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Awix (3310 KP) rated Fistful of Dollars (1964) in Movies

Jun 12, 2018 (Updated Oct 22, 2018)  
Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Fistful of Dollars (1964)
1964 | Adventure, Western
8
8.3 (31 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Genre-defining spaghetti western is an Italian-made interpretation of a quintessentially American genre, filmed in Spain and based on a Japanese movie (so stop going on about how much you hate globalisation). Taciturn stranger moseys into a divided town south of the border, decides to make some quick money by playing the two ruling gangs off against one another. Cue many trumpet solos and Clint Eastwood gunning folk down like it's going out of fashion.

Not quite up to the same standards as the film that inspired it, Yojimbo, but still a really impressive film in the way it combines Leone's visual style, Eastwood's inscrutable charisma and Morricone's operatic score. The focus is so visual that the film ends up coming across as slightly superficial and overly interested in violence and sadism, but it is still a classic of its kind and really a landmark in both US and European cinema.
  
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David McK (3425 KP) rated Origin in Books

Jan 28, 2019  
Origin
Origin
Dan Brown | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
6
7.3 (21 Ratings)
Book Rating
[a:Dan Brown|630|Dan Brown|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1399396714p2/630.jpg]'s fifth Robert Langdon book, largely set in and around Barcelona, Spain, and which I read while on holiday to that location.

If you've read any of Brown's previous Robert Langdon - a role which, now, I assocaite firmly with Tom Hanks - books, then you'd know pretty much what to expect: a mad dash around the various locations within, a bit of science (some of which I'd already heard, other of which I hadn't relaised before) thrown in, some plot elelments that would make you roll your eyes if you stopped and thought about them, but actually, all-in-all, a pretty fun read.

In other words, a case where (like in most of his books) the sum is greater than the parts.

Even if, in this case, I found the supposed 'twist' (the identity of Kirsch's killer) to be as plain as the nose on your face.
  
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Vegas (725 KP) rated You Cannot Hide in TV

Feb 2, 2020  
You Cannot Hide
You Cannot Hide
2020 | Action, Drama, Thriller
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
TV Show Rating
Builds to a satisfying ending (1 more)
The story
A very jumbled start (1 more)
Takes a few episodes to work out what's going on.
Good, eventually
A mother and daughter flee from Mexico to Spain on witness protection and far from being a settled safe life for them it all goes wrong.

The first episode is quite confusing, with so much seemingly unrelated stuff going on it is a lot to take in especially who is who and what part of the story they are connected to.

In my opinion it remains a bit of a jumble through a few episodes and I almost gave up on it after episode 4, however I persevered and I'm glad I did, it all calmed down and once you knew who was who, it made much more sense. Leading to a reasonably worthwhile viewing with some parts feeling a little like 24 in story progression.

Not the best I have seen recently but worth watching if you like action thriller type series.