Awake not Woke!

All the usual DEI minority casting and feminism with women smarter and better than men. White female Clara's husband is revealed and to no ones surprise he's black. Just have to check that mixed race couples box they love so much. The acting is...average I guess though some of the kids aren't very good. The writing's not great and the dialogue's pretty bad. The main group of characters gets very annoying quickly. This is another of those modern movies where they expect the viewer to root for and be on the side of a group of characters that are unlikable and irritating. The original dystopian sci fi setup in the first 20 minutes gets totally abandoned for a standard 'group of characters takes shelter in the wrong house' trope. This could of been set up in so many ways with the same results, group of delinquents rob a store and take shelter at a house, group of delinquents break down on the road, group of delinquents rob a house. The elaborate setup at the beginning seems mostly pointless and poorly thought out. While I did watch the entire movie it's nothing we haven't seen before. It's pretty horror lite but if you like those types of movies and can take the midlevel woke it might be worth a one time watch.

Initially I thought this French action movie was confusing and didn't make much sense. I didn't realize until 15 minutes in when the movie title in French came up on screen that it's actually the final film in a trilogy. The original French title is Balle Perdue 3 but the English title gives no indication it's a sequel. The action sequences while well done are reminiscent of 90's Hollywood. Every vehicles that explode into a fireball when crashed, fight scenes are highly stylized to look 'cool' while having no basis in reality. I can't say much about the story as it didn't make a lot of sense having not seen the previous movie. This just didn't interest me enough to go look them up though. For woke there is the usual DEI overrepresentation of minorities as well as having mostly females in authority roles. Overall maybe decent if you saw the first 2 but average at best action movie. More of a 2.5 but rounded down to 2 for all the DEI junk.

Held my attention

After years of unwatchable cinema, this film held my attention for the duration. For the most part, the characters were plausible and I was able to forget that the 2 male leads knew one another as Thor and Banner... Slight wokeness included female wish-fulfillment, where a mid Karen can make demands of the Aspy-Asgardian (an awkward Reacher-clone), who only wants to appease her. Also Banner-cop spreading the wealth and goodness despite being surrounded by corruption. We get no real explanation why these guys are the way they are despite the enormous pressure put on them to be jerks. The obligatory mulatto-chick didn't seem too forced, thanks to Halle Berry's portrayal of worn-out insurance exec and I didn't even recognise Jennifer Jason Leigh as the long-suffering Banner's wife. Her role was to twist the knife but he was just too nice to get Ruffalo'd. Some plot-holes mar this otherwise enjoyable film, including unresolved fence (an ancient Nick Nolte) and hacker arcs, and why the otherwise cautious lead suddenly forgetting years of discipline and blowing his modus operandum. Oh and, of course, returning and risking life imprisonment for the entitled shrew in plain clothing... Seems like a lot of movies blow their wad in the last quarter - after you've paid and are trapped in your seat, naturally... Still, it's a pretty good watch after years of Tinsel-town tripe.

Love this movie

This is the epitome of 1980's cornball funny. It's total irreverent humor that should generate a negative Wokness rating. It couldn't be made today because of all the racial slur humor. That must be why it can't be found anywhere on streaming or DVD. If you can find it, watch it.