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David McK (3425 KP) rated Eagle Eye (2008) in Movies

May 11, 2021  
Eagle Eye (2008)
Eagle Eye (2008)
2008 | Drama, Mystery
5
6.8 (8 Ratings)
Movie Rating
2008 conspiracy techno-thriller starring Shia LaBeouf (remember him?) and Michelle Monaghan, as two strangers who get pulled into a high-tech plot by a female voice in the other end of the phone.

This might sound a bit strange, but remember The Matrix?

The bit where Neo is receiving instructions from Morpheus on how to escape from his office workplace?

That's the type of thing going on here: do this. Do that. Jump now. Get on this train. Drive at speed straight ahead (with all the lights turning green). And so forth and so on...

Maybe also a touch of Skynet about it all...
  
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Erika Kehlet (21 KP) rated Micro in Books

Feb 21, 2018  
Micro
Micro
Michael Crichton | 2011
2
6.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
I really wanted to like this book, but the dialog was so painful I almost didn't finish it. The descriptions and action scenes felt too choppy. There were more continuity issues and contradictions than I can count (for one, thing, if you are out of visual range of something, you can't look back in the next sentence and see what said something was doing!) and by the time we're 90% into the book I KNOW who Karen is and there is no reason to refer to her or any other character by their full names anymore, at least not so frequently.

The basic idea was good - and it had the potential to be an entertaining, if far-fetched, techno-thriller, but I couldn't recommend this even to die-hard Michael Crichton fans.
  
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Miguel Covarrubias (143 KP) rated Maniac in TV

Apr 23, 2019  
Maniac
Maniac
2018 | Comedy, Drama
9
8.9 (11 Ratings)
TV Show Rating Watch
Comedic timing is brilliant, cast is fantastic, visuals aren't distracting, great concept dealing with coping, Fun (0 more)
the wierdness almost becomes detracting (0 more)
The Techno-Thriller-Comedy that Nobody knew we needed
We unexpectedly loved maniac. It had a lot to say about fantasy vs. reality. The beautiful modern take (extremely loosely) on Don Quixote had a lot to say to the current era that we find ourselves in. A near future almost hopeless setting shines a lot on how we currently attempt to cope with our reality by escaping into our virtual realities. It's especially difficult on millennials who are trying to overcome the arrested development that we've been placed in. We had too much of a good thing, technology, and haven't quite figured out how to balance virtual with analog reality. 9/10 well worth your time!
  
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David McK (3425 KP) rated Relic (Pendergast, #1) in Books

Jan 28, 2019  
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child | 2005
8
8.6 (7 Ratings)
Book Rating
I think I first read this back in the early to mid 90's, after the success of <i>Jurassic Park</i> (novel and film), but before <i>The Lost World</i>.

I remember thinking at the time how it would make a good movie due to the way it is written (very 'Michael Crichton'ish); it was later converted into such. Unfortunately, that film completely veered off the track from the novel, sharing only the title and a few key characters and settings - it would have worked so much better had they stayed truer to the source.

The novel is set primarily in and around New York's Museum of Natural History, leading up to (and in) the grand opening of a major new exhibition on superstition. There are rumors of a 'museum beast' in the museum, and I think I'm giving nothing away when I say that these prove to be more than rumors ...

As already stated, this is very like Michael Crichton's blend of techno-thriller so, if you like that, you should also like this.
  
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David McK (3425 KP) rated The Last Odyssey (Sigma Force #15) in Books

Feb 12, 2023  
The Last Odyssey (Sigma Force #15)
The Last Odyssey (Sigma Force #15)
James Rollins | 2020
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
By and large, you know what you're getting with James Rollins Sigma Force novels (of which this is number 15!): a modern-day techno thriller, usually a race against time with dire consequences of failure, and linked to a mystery in the past.

This one is no different.

Having said that, I do have to say that these are also a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine!

This time around, the link to the past is the tale as told in Homer's (not *that* Homer! D'Oh!) Odyssey, when Odysseus and his crew spent years trying to get home again following the fall of Troy. What if the fantastical stories, and his journeys, all had their basis in fact?

Following a discovery of an ancient ship entombed in ice in a glacier in Iceland, and the cargo it carries, this sets the events (and the clock) ticking for this novel: events that sees Commander Grayson Pierce and his now-wife Seichan return from Maternity/Paternity leave in order to help out solving the mystery.

As usual, there's also a traitor or two ...