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Ross (3284 KP) rated The Change 6: Tokyo: Noriko's Story in Books

Nov 6, 2020  
The Change 6: Tokyo: Noriko's Story
The Change 6: Tokyo: Noriko's Story
Guy Adams | 2017 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
A decent self-contained post-apocalyptic novella
The (seemingly) final instalment in the Change series takes another turn and moves setting to the Japanese capital Tokyo. Where we have seen western cities pretty much out of control and descended into either Walking Dead style chaos or Mad Max style tribalism, we now have Tokyo. Everything is controlled by an AI called HA/HA. Noriko's story is told by a narrator, whose identity isn't revealed until late on and is a nice twist. She is on the run from the Electric Samurai, sentinel-like robots that police the city, just trying to get home. As with the rest of the series, she meets strange people along the way and sees unusual events.
Unlike with the previous books, this one has a satisfying ending. Sadly, it didn't close off the loose ends from the other books as I had hoped.
  
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LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) in Movies

Jan 6, 2022  
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
2017 | Action, Comedy
5
7.6 (120 Ratings)
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There's a point in TGC where the two main characters are storming an enemy base, stylishly dispatching, blowing up and shooting all manners of henchman, robots, robot dogs, and cowboys with electric whips, all whilst Elton John's "Saturday Night's Alright" blasts out in the background, and then the actual Elton John fly-kicks some poor fucker in the face, and everything is so off-the-rails bat-shit that it all clicks into place.
Sadly, it's takes two hours of often fun, but definitely bloated runtime to get there.
It lacks the finesse and hard hitting impact of the first entry and it's memorable set pieces and doesn't feel as tight.
It's still entertaining mind, but the finished product comes across as a little wayward in it's pursuit of non-stop absurdity, and no amount of spy-fingering at Glastonbury Festival can mask that.
  
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Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) Jan 6, 2022

I agree, Ioved the first outing but TGC seemed unnecessarily crammed, the plot was great and having Elton John was oddly genius, however it ultimately felt like someone smashed the MIB & Crank movies together and hoped for the best.