Awake not Woke!

Yet another feminist agenda movie weakly disguised as post-apocalyptic sci-fi. Creatures have emerged into the world to eradicate humans and a scratch or bite can infect you and turn you into a monster. Except is only affects men and very rarely women. We are half jokingly told it's because men have simply brains and are easily infected while women have complex brains. This leads to most men having been killed off and the population that's left is majority female including all the military and resistance fighters. All the men are weak betas that need to be protected. This also pushes the reasoning behind this to the climate change hoax. While I don't consider climate change to fall under the description of woke it is politically agenda motivated propaganda. The small tiny female teenager has to save her father on multiple occasions. There is also the usual DEI overrepresentation as well. The acting is pretty bad, the story is very weak and cliché. The trailers are also misleading and sell it as an action creature post apocalypse sci-fi movie. Everything in the trailer I saw is from the first 30 or so minutes, after that it's a very slow paced survival drama between a father and daughter. The ending seems like a setup for a series more than an ending to a movie. The FX and creature designs range from weak to just laughable. The hybrids that are talked about with such fear most of the movie finally show up and seem to be almost no threat at all, slow moving and very easily dispatched. Not recommended for anyone.

Adult Children of Divorce is a comedy from 2013. There are a lot of recognizable faces and names here and the acting is good. This is a hilarious comedy about exactly what the title says. There is nothing woke here. The story is good, the humor is more grounded than silly but it works. I do think it's probably funnier to people with divorced parents or if you know someone who is. Some of the humor may not hit the same way otherwise. Still well worth a watch in my opinion.

'Inspired by a true story', except it's not, like at all. Literally the only thing that actually happened was Miami police raided a mans home and found 22 million hidden in home depot buckets behind a wall. That's it, no cartel, no corrupt police, no murdered LEO, no shootout, no police chase, nothing. Even the officer that was involved in the production as an advisor wasn't there or involved with the real story at all. In reality this is a completely fictional made up story, it didn't even happen in the city of Hialeah either. Sigh. As for the movie, well it's standard modern fare. The acting is pretty good and it's fine for mindless entertainment but the story and writing is not so great. It's the usual lazy writing with characters doing stupid things that trained special unit officer would do. If you don't pay too much attention it passes the time. While I don't mind Affleck or Damon they are a bit miscast in my opinion especially in the first half, they are still stuck in their Boston speech patterns and mindset, that's not how people talk in Miami, and what is with the constant nonstop F bombs, in every sentence by every character. It's not natural at all and just distracting. As for woke the diversity is not that far off given it's set in Miami but still can't help but notice the core group consists of 2 white males, 1 Asian male, 1 black female and 1 Spanish female. Spoiler.................. The other issue is the villains are all men and other than 1 are white and corrupt police while the Columbian drug cartel is more honorable and not really that bad after all.

Although it was "inspired" by the same-name comic, its connection with the comic is way too low, almost zero. They just used the concept; everything else was made up.