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David McK (3649 KP) rated Aquaman and the lost kingdom (2023) in Movies

Sep 1, 2024  
Aquaman and the lost kingdom (2023)
Aquaman and the lost kingdom (2023)
2023 |
5
5.8 (5 Ratings)
Movie Rating
"Colourful"

If I had to choose one word to describe this movie, that would be it.

And I mean colourful literally: lots of gold, green and blue splashed across the screen.

Anyway, this is a direct sequel to 2018s 'Aquaman', picking up roughly 4 years after the events of that film and with Arthur Curry now married, ruling Atlantis and with a kid of his own.

However, David Cain's Black Mantis has not forgiven nor forgotten about Aquaman, and has recently come into possession of long-forgotten Atlantean magick/tech (hence 'the lost kingdom' of the title) and is still out for revenge on Arthur Curry and his family, leading Arthur to have to break his own brother Orm (the Oceanmaster of the previous film) out of custody and seek a way to counter the threat ...

If this is the last of the current DCEU, I have to say, it's a bit 'wet' (pun intended) of a closure.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Day Shall Come (2019) in Movies

Oct 15, 2019  
The Day Shall Come (2019)
The Day Shall Come (2019)
2019 | Comedy
5
5.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Offbeat comedy-thriller from Chris Morris never quite coheres when it comes to raising a laugh or making a serious point. It feels like the story would have been more topical ten years ago: essentially it's a critique of the FBI for entrapping relatively harmless individuals on spurious terrorism charges, simply for the kudos and publicity involved - offering to give people guns and then arresting them for possession of firearms, for instance. In this case an unhinged Miami cult leader's need for cash results in him getting mixed up with the police and FBI.

Well, there is potential here, I suppose, but on this occasion Morris never quite shakes off the lingering traces of his background in TV comedy to make something that feels like an extended cinematic narrative, and too often the story is silly rather than funny. The story feels contrived and a bit manipulative, too. Anna Kendrick works incredibly hard to lift the material she's given, but in the end the film is wildly uneven and seldom more than mildly amusing.
  
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Sonofdel (6291 KP) rated The Exorcist in Books

Nov 7, 2019  
The Exorcist
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry
9
8.7 (19 Ratings)
Book Rating
good back stories, right amount of tension (0 more)
ended too quickly (0 more)
Descriptive and Chilling horror
I saw this film many years ago and have meant to get around to reading the book. William Blatty does a nice foreword and explains why the book was written and about the extra character that is in it. Its a gripping read from the very start but be warned it goes into very graphic, obscene and depraved descriptions so if you are easily offended stay away (well it is a book about possession after all). A very good read that keeps you wanting to just read a bit more, good back stories to some of the characters help to explain situations that were not dealt with in the film. The character of father Merrin could have been written for Max Von Sydow (who played him in the film). I would give this four stars as i thought it ended a little too quickly and it would have been better if the ending had been stretched out and explained (like the film).