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"soft and witless" writers

"i'm not as soft and witless as your comment implies. let's go beefcake." --- that's exactly what a soft and witless hag who's never seen the outside of a science lab would say to an experienced mercenary and hunter.

this kind of pissant writing has lowkey been present since the first JP. looking at you Laura Dern. it's obvious who the real "sexists" are in these movies.

ironically enough, Amanda Kirby from JP3 --- who is unjustly overhated for very trivial reasons --- seems to be the ONLY character throughout the franchise who doesn't have a shred of "tough girl" tropes written in (claire a close second).

you can write a competent woman in a script without her being an insufferable bitch. learn a thing or two from the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE movies if you don't have a clue on how to do that.

but then again it's hollywood so being insufferable is more or less their thing.

Slop

I gave in to my youngest wanting to see that.

This movie lacks a script, a director, and maybe someone to red-light the project before this mess was made.

Giving it a 1 for a few jokes slipped under the radar.

Momoa does his best to save his character, but polishing a turd only gets one so far.
Black is, well, par for the course in this dog and one-trick pony show. Crude over-acting, stupid singing and awkward homosexual overtones. Pinnacle of humour.

Not rating wokeness too high, as there's no overt political agenda. Except the white girl-boss. And the black loud female. And ineffective, stupid males. White, obviously. Even Black.

All-in-all on par with the Hoskins Mario movie. Or Dacascos' Double Dragon. Or the later Mortal Kombat installments.
It's so bad, it should have been directed by Uwe Boll.

Is this really what passes for horror these days. What a slow boring slog of a movie. There are no scares at all. There is a presence floating
around a house watching a dysfunctional family and occasionally moving things around. Nothing happens. The acting is average to bad. There is no real story. The weird pov camera shots and movements aren't creepy or scary just gimmicky. While it's not overtly woke there is the must have
mixed race couple with the beta weak white husband and the aggressive nasty snarky Asian wife. Some other DEI background characters aside that's really it. The movie isn't even really bad it's just so pointless and boring.

Forced diversity

Black woman in ancient Europe and a smart ass girl boss

A brave late night host.

It's impressive how long he has been in the industry without turning him total woke. It is adult humor, and funnier some times than others.

Pathetic

His career started good but ended as a compleat sellout, a puppet for the leftist agenda.

Really enjoyed this

Demographically accurate to the setting. I didn't catch on anything gay or woke

why tom

just why

The movie is leaning a little WOKE!!

In my opinion, the President of the United States in this movie is a Black woman. I believe this portrayal comes at a politically sensitive time. All the female characters are portrayed as superhuman, able to fight military men, which I feel is unrealistic since women generally can't match men in combat. I’m a fan of Tom Cruise's movies, but this film has lowered my opinion of his future work. I’m tired of Hollywood pushing a WOKE ideology down my throat!

Pretty Woman on meth

Anora is a stripper in a Brooklyn bar. One night, one of her customers is Ivan, the son of Russian oligarchs. Ivan takes a shine to Anora, offering her a mountain of cash to become his "sex friend" for a week. The young girl discovers a world of insane luxury and non-stop partying, and the couple head off to Las Vegas to prolong the fiesta, where Ivan decides on a whim to marry Anora. When her parents, who had stayed behind in Russia, heard the news, they were furious and asked their man of trust, Toros, who had moved to New York, to "restore order to the chaos" and break up the marriage... How would Anora and Ivan manage?

In "Anora", the director focuses on a different kind of ‘sex worker’, this Anora who suddenly finds herself embracing a Cinderella destiny. The irresistible charm of Sean Baker's cinema lies not so much in the originality of his plots as in the affectionate, non-judgemental way in which he looks at his characters. In ‘Anora’, all the protagonists are endearing. First of all, of course, there is the young girl, who is inevitably a little venal because she has no desire to remain a stripper for the rest of her life. Then there's Ivan, a young daddy's boy who's as sympathetic as he is immature and irresponsible, and who spends his parents' inheritance from the other side of the Atlantic on his own in his big villa. Then there's Toros, the henchman, totally overwhelmed by events, and flanked by a Russian accomplice, Igor, who is much less of a brute than he seems... All these characters are played by actors who are little known in our country, but all of them are absolutely terrific, starting with Mikey Madison, who is unforgettable in the role of Anora, a role that will very probably earn her a few handsome awards.

Film review by Hugues Dayez.

Not for the claustrophobic !

First fascinating aspect of that film was the insight into the daily lives of those who work in one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: saturation divers. It's quite a mind-boggling job, and not at all well known, it's true. These divers work on underwater pipelines. At the bottom of the sea, there are 32,000 km of pipelines to monitor, repair and weld. I would compare them to astronauts in the abyss. Because they work at such great depths, to avoid decompression accidents, they live on a boat but in caissons, pressurised capsules for several weeks. They sleep, eat and live there. Just long enough for their bodies to get used to the pressure so they can carry out their dives. It's an extreme job, as technical as it is dangerous, requiring impeccable physical condition, a mind of steel and a hell of a lot of composure.

‘Last Breath’ plunges us - quite literally - into this extraordinary world. The film recreates the oppressive atmosphere of these missions. The darkness, the silence, the weight of the water, the amplified mechanical noises - it's a total immersion in a world you'd never suspect. And it raises real questions about life, death, solidarity and our relationship with risk. A human adventure film, in the deepest sense of the word. But clearly not for the claustrophobic !

Film review by Hugues Dayez

An invitation to travel

From her birth in the 1950s to the present day, the life of Parthenope, a woman as ravishing as she is intelligent who electrifies all those lucky enough to cross her path, resembles a long and fascinating emotional journey. A fierce lover of freedom, she searches for happiness and love on the outskirts of Naples, a magical city that opens onto a whirlwind of passions and mysteries...

After Rome in ‘La Grande Bellezza’, Paolo Sorrentino declares his love for the city of Naples in ‘Parthenope’, a new Fellini-inspired work of hypnotic beauty presented in Competition at Cannes in 2024. Haunted by the legendary myth of the mermaid, this allegorical tale of apprenticeship and solar disenchantment magnifies in excess the quest for self of a woman experiencing life without ever escaping the gaze of others.

In the role of the bewitching and heroic Parthenope, the young Celeste Dalla Porta is the film's dazzling revelation. Alongside her is a deeply moving Gary Oldman as the fallen writer.

A true declaration of love to Naples

Film review by Hugues Dayez