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Rebecca Billcliff (2409 KP) rated Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019) in Movies

Nov 14, 2019 (Updated Nov 15, 2019)  
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu  (2019)
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)
2019 | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Poke-tastic!
The only good film based on a game, ever! Both fun and a little crazy, if is good because it does not take itself too seriously. Ryan Reynolds once again stealing the show, a perfect casting and brings is own wit tho the picture.
Making a live action Pokemon film was going to be a challenge, but they have done a great job, from showing the world of life with Pokemon, to the more realistic looking pokemon, all in a gritty mondern film noir style setting.
It is just nerdy enough to keep fans happy, and has enough Reynolds and jokes to keep everyone else on their seats.
A great film, and lovely to see something that is not a sequel or a remake. It certainly is working hard to be the very best, like no video game film ever was.
  
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
2019 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Schwarzenegger, Hamilton & james Cameron Sfx, franchise progression. (0 more)
Unnecessary character addition, too many references. (0 more)
He's back (& apparently never left?)
Contains spoilers, click to show
After multiple failed attempts at terminator movies since the epic T2 judgement day, the franchise has consistently been tarnished of its unique credibility with only a rewatchable (imo) sequel in terminator : salvation.

Since the announcement of Linda Hamilton reprising her role of Sarah Connor I have been eager to see the outcome & I am very happy with what I saw, especially when it comes to taking into consideration its predecessors (excluding T1 &T2 of course).

Linda Hamilton plays her role as if she'd only taken a short break & with Schwarzeneggers T-800 learning to adapt to human life allows for great character encounters with the T-800 killing John Connor 22 years prior.

Fantastic movie, worth the wait.
  
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YTUK (1118 KP) Dec 3, 2019

This is why reviews are great from real people, so many ways of looking at the same thing... amazing.

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
2019 | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
It's hard to find a PG movie that doesn't have any major swear words in it nowadays, so huge thumbs up for that! It was a little cheesy with some of the dialogue in parts, and you could easily draw direct correlation between things in this movie, and things in some of the other major modern classics. However, it didn't make the movie bad. I don't think it deserved all of the awful reviews that it was getting while in the theater. It's a PG movie, based on the characters from Sleeping Beauty. I'm not sure what people expected. I thought it was a cute film, overall, especially considering that it's a sequel. Man, I love Maleficent's wings! I'm glad I finally found the time to watch it with my family. I don't feel cheated out of my time at all.
  
Brahms: The Boy II (2020)
Brahms: The Boy II (2020)
2020 | Horror
Boring jump scares (2 more)
Not a patch on the first film
Different direction to the first
Very disappointing
The first film The Boy was a pleasant surprise and much better than I expected it to be. I was quite surprised when this sequel popped up out of nowhere. I can understand why it didn't have much publicity. This is the film I feared the first one would be.
Boring jump scares, loud noises, no real atmosphere, it felt way longer than the 86min run time. It was dull, didn't use the iconic location of the first film much and just fades badly in comparison to the first film. It also does take a different approach to the first film. Make sure you see @The Boy (2016) but steer clear of this, that's the only rule you need to follow.
  
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Chloe (778 KP) rated The Shadow Man in Books

Mar 6, 2021  
The Shadow Man
The Shadow Man
Helen Fields | 2021 | Crime, Thriller
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7.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Clever (2 more)
Interesting
Gripping
Unbelievable in places (1 more)
Not as scary as blurb suggests
Creepy but over described
I enjoyed this book overall, the blurb makes the villain seem a lot more threatening than he actually is, not that there aren't some gross parts. The plot was interesting and I like how it dealt with a unique disease.

The scene was set quite well early on but I think more could have been done to elicit this throughout the book.

I liked the main detective and the psychologist, I could see a sequel in the future with the usual love hate relationship emerging between them.

There were a few instances where the story was a little unbelievable, particularly around the flooring scene. Plus some of the facts of the case are happened upon and theories are very much close to the truth.