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This is a Dutch slasher horror movie. The general idea is a group of people pick on the wrong family and it turns out badly, sort of. The villains here are a family of 3 white male pig farmers, that's it. The 'hero's' are a radical violent terrorist animal rights group. You read that right. The hero group consists of 5 people 1 blue haired violent white feminist, 1 white female, 1 violent white male, 1 calm generally decent Indian male and 1 calm generally decent black female. Not off to a good start are we. Our hero group breaks in and vandalizes the farm then kidnaps 2 of the farmers and proceeds to mutilate one of them then torture, mutilate
and murder the other one. Then when the farmers get the upper hand to take revenge our group of terrorist are suddenly the victims and have to survive the night. These types of movies can work when done right, this isn't it. The entire film never changes perspective and seems to desperately want us to root for the terrorists. The problem is
they are so despicable, insane and just downright evil. The farmers on the other hand are never shown to be doing anything wrong other than in the eyes of the self righteous group. They snap and take revenge only after they are attacked and one of them tortured and murdered. It's a shame because this is a well made film. The acting is decent and the
FX are very well done. There are buckets of blood and gore with a couple of really brutal scenes. It's watchable for horror aficionados who can look past the politics.

The previous review is pretty much spot on so I wont waste a lot of time on it. The voice acting isn't bad and I didn't mind the animation like some did. But this is not canon and is just made up feminist fan fiction. It's girl power fantasy with a Mary Sue lead. We are told right from the start how amazing she is and reminded of it constantly. She's smarter, always right and better at everything than the men. The final fight scene with her against Wulf is actually comical it's so bad. I was bursting out laughing at the absurdity of the fight. While I did watch the whole thing I actually found it pretty boring as a whole and don't really see any point to watching it. Even if you know almost nothing about Tolkien's world it still just isn't very well done.

A pretty fun Buddy-cop movie!

Buddy-cop stories fall mostly into 2 categories: A grizzled old timer is paired with a promising guy that thinks he owns the place, or a goody two shoes + a guy who is great at his job, but does it in a way that breaks too many laws. Here we have the former
President Will is all about the show, the popularity. Everything american crystalized into a sharp-chinned man, that looks great holding a gun. Against him is Prime Minister Sam. Has been at it for 6 years, actually served in the UK army, has been making his country a better place and is, of course, not a fan of Will. Their dynamic is great and the comedy never felt like it was overtaking the tone of the movie! I did find the CGI to be pretty... not-pretty, at times, but the fight scenes were really well made and paced, especially as the movie progressed. The plot-twists were also nice! Defeating the villain wasn't the goal of the narrative as much as it was a thing for the characters to overcome so him not being deeply explored didn't feel like an issue.
And I personally enjoy that part of the movie took place in Poland!
So yeah, solid movie. Typical buddy-copish message about overcoming your differences and projecting that out to politics was a nice spin!

And now the Woke part:

People argue that the movie rushes DEI checkmarks in the first 5 minutes with the CIA/MI6 scene, but I do still think think this is harsh and unprescedented.
The agents shown in the first scene are of different races, sure. But they took so little screen time that I could barely tell which, and also got killed in the first 10 minutes.
People also describe Noel as a "girlboss" which I didn't feel at all. She cracks bad puns which first shows her confidence and later pays off in an adorable finish to the big journey. It also didn't feel like the fights were in her favor. Sure, the first bullet she dodges in the movie feels a bit much but she did ultimately lose that fight, got shot and was out of the movie for the next 40 minutes. And she didn't feel bossy! No idea where some people got that from.. At first she's calling the shots becase she's the de facto boss, then she's trying to wrangle two grown men who are fighting like they're in preschool, but after that she's on the same level as them for the rest of the movie. Her last fight was really good also! It did feel tense, but she was destined to win - not because she's a woman but becasue she's a main character in a action comedy movie that would be ruined by her death. Same thing held true for both Sam and Will fighting, but I still was invested and worried for each of them making it out ok

And then there's the villain. I'm kinda mad at this one honestly. Not like, at the movie - at people here
I can maybe understend "overrepresentation" of minorities as a something to point out - I don't think it's a good argument, but sure, when in Rome
But being mad that the villains, who are for christ's sake, RUSSIANS,
ARE AN EXCLUSIVELY WHITE GROUP
I find it hard to believe some of you can enjoy a movie

So yeah, jokes funny, women characters entertaining, message good and simple, at no point did I feel like a character could've been whiter
No woke, all good
Some of you should, as the kids say, go touch grass

Another low budget indie action film. It's a basic seen it before revenge movie that would of been right at home in the 90's dollar bins.
Oil worker is on his way home for his wedding with a rescue dog he just found and took with him. On the way home he stops at his estranged
father's house who is on house arrest with an ankle bracelet and 2 officers watching him. Ankle bracelet seems a little pointless if your under constant guard but ok. Then as he's driving the dog in the backseat throws up and he stops at a rest stop to clean him up. A truck pulls up outside and a group of guys comes in and randomly beats the hell out of him. He comes to and takes his dog to the local vet and tells her the dog is hit with something even though it seems fine with no visible wound. The vet pets him and says it's too early to tell if he will live because there is extensive scarring from previous injuries. Really? No examination just by petting his head you already know that? Wow that's a damn fine vet there. He gets a room and decides to stay until the dog is ok. He looks like he barely got into a fight much less beat to hell by a group of guys but seems to develop instant ptsd and jumps at every noise and every person he sees causes panic attacks and delusions. Then it really all unravels and the writing goes off the rails. This is a random attack and none of these people have ever met before. This group of guys then find out he's alive and decide to go after him and kill him. Why? No idea. Most of this movie turns into characters doing stupid things for no real reason. If someone tries to kill you and you
are standing 5ft away from the drivers side with a shotgun as they are escaping do you shoot them or stop and shoot at one of the tires? You guessed it shoot that tire then chase them as they drive away. They crash into a pond and are about to drown. Do you wade out into the pond and try to save him until you remember it's one of the group that beat you up then let him drown? Yes you do. I mean trying to kill you is not as bad as beating you up apparently. I gave up around 45 minutes when the house arrest father casually knocks out the 2 cops and cuts his ankle monitor off with a knife to go help his son. For woke there is a little too much DEI for small town Kansas including the good black sheriff, the restaurant owner and what looks like maybe half Asian veterinarian. The white hick deputy is of course bad and the group that randomly attacked him is naturally all white good ole boys. The acting while not terrible is about what you would expect from this type of movie. Your tolerance for lazy bad writing will affect if you like this or not as it's not the worst and somewhat watchable.

I had heard this was woke and bad but I was surprised at just how bad and how woke this actually turned out to be. I made it through
2 episodes so this will cover those first 2 episodes. First of all be aware this has virtually nothing to do with Resident Evil other than
stealing the names from the game and having zombies. The entire story is told with two different time frames. Current post zombie outbreak and past before leading up to the outbreak. Current is any generic zombie apocalypse story you've seen before and past is oddly an annoying melodramatic teen angsty CW show with irritating pop music.

Episode 1-The acting is terrible, it's the first thing you will notice, the CG is pretty bad as well. The DEI casting is insane. Did the white people all die? There seems to be every other representation but white people are an extreme minority. Our hero is a black female involved in a mixed race relationship of course. Why not. We are introduced to race swapped black Wesker (white in the games) and his twin daughters, 1 black and 1 mixed race white/Polynesian. Wait what? We are given some lazy 5 sec explanation how that's possible then quickly move on. While we are at it
Wesker in the games has no daughters but a son. I'm putting that in the woke column as gender swapping. Jade (our black twin DEI hero) spouts some racist anti white comments. The adult version of Jade is a Mary Sue character, she knows everything and can do anything. Teenage version is a terrible angry, aggressive unlikable character. Actually both sisters are rather unlikable and annoying and this is who the entire show is built around. The writing is as bad as the acting. One of the first scenes has our DEI hero being chased by a horde of zombies, as one of them catches up to her and tackles her to the ground the rest of the horde
that are right on top of them swarms over her and finishes her off. Ok makes sense and not a bad start right? Well it would be if this show didn't have lazy incompetent writers. Instead when she's tackled and laying on the ground fighting of the zombie the rest of the horde just suddenly stops and starts shambling around aimlessly right next to
her without attacking while she fights of the zombie and escapes. In the past the two sisters are able to break into Umbrellas high security using a digital cell phone message of Weskers voice. That's the extent of their security. No guards anywhere, or any other security they just get in and wonder all over at will. Episode one ends with Jade taking a running flying leap over a cliff and it's where episode 2 starts-

That cliff appears to be about 40ft at least and she falls and crashed on top of a bus in front of another horde of zombies and just gets up like nothing happened and takes of running. Those zombie just slowly turn to look in her direction then just stand there waiting for her to start running before giving chase. As she's saved by another black character and clinging to the roof of a car they are fast approaching
a narrow opening with spike place to kill whatever's on the roof. Rather than just letting go and rolling of the top she just lays there yelling for the driver to stop. In the past somehow a single usb stick pugged into a random pc inside Umbrella is able to wipe out all hard drives and security cameras for the entire facility in about
10 seconds. At this point our Umbrella girlboss is introduced and she Spanish. In her first scene she gets into an argument with her white lesbian partner. Girlboss, lesbian, Spanish and mixed race couple, that's a lot of woke points. The scene of her arguing is pointless and only there to make a statement. Later in the episode when she has
her second scene the first thing she's asked is 'how's your wife" just in case we forgot she's a lesbian. There is a self taught hacker high school kid on a laptop that manages to bypass Umbrellas firewall and access the entire system in about 10 seconds. At this point I'm wondering why Umbrella even has security. The acting in the second episode actually gets worse as does the DEI casting. Almost no white people at all anywhere and if one does show up they will turn out to be bad or stupid, every single time. 2 episodes was it for me as this was not surprisingly cancelled at 1 season only and there was no reason to continue torturing myself any further.

Predator with daddy issues

Why can’t they just make a movie about a different alien that’s not tied to the franchises we all love?
Do they really have so little creativity that they can’t come up with a new story and authentic characters?

Honestly, the creators of some of our favorite universes are getting old and they either don’t care or just don’t give a fuch about staying true to their original work anymore. So, then some random idiot comes along, waves some cash around, says they want to make a new movie, but tells them straight up that without their name attached it won’t have the same impact. So, they join in just to be credited, and end up backing a project that completely trashes the canon and spits all over the universe they once created.

There are only a handful of artists left who actually stay loyal to their creations, who understand the cultural impact their work has had. And honestly, unless they legally make sure their legacy is protected after they die, their families [or some asshole in the movie business] will eventually destroy everything they built just to make a quick buck.

Nothing really woke here. Much like chapter one this isn't so much a terrible movie as it is mired in mediocrity and bad writing. This starts out where the first one left off and it had a lot of promise. The first 30 min or so are a throwback to classic slashers of the 70's and 80's with the survivor being stalked in the hospital. This does have the cliché empty hospital with no one around but that's a staple of these types of slashers so can't really complain to mush about that. However once she leaves the hospital the writing starts to fall apart. The entire premise to this franchise as a whole is random senseless violence by strangers. But here they feel the need to give them all backstory by way of flashbacks scattered through the movie. It's just not necessary and goes against the
entire point of the franchise. There's also the problem that the killers identity is telegraphed very early on who the killer really are so there is no mystery there either. The acting is ok, and the first part in the hospital is genuinely disturbing and creepy but after that there's really nothing much to see. The kills are run of the mill and should of been far more brutal to give more impact to the senseless violence killers. It ends with a to be continued in the middle of a scene so there's no resolution to this part either. I made it all the way to the end so it is somewhat watchable and after this much will be back for part 3 just don't expect mush going into this franchise reboot.
So for the bad
writing-some spoilers ahead............early on one of the killers is run through the leg with a pitchfork yet this scene is immediately forgotten as the character is running around not limping afterword's like it never happened. Then there is the boar attack scene, probably the worst most pointless sequence in the entire movie. She would have been mauled and most likely dead if attacked by a wild boar of that size. They even went so far as to give the boar a flashback origin scene for some reason.
After the attack she is dragging her leg struggling to stay upright then 2 scenes later barely limping like she has a mild sprain.

Maybe watch the middle of the movie

The problem with Heads of State is it starts and end preaching not so subtle liberal virtues and, Jesus, this film is DEI soup.

The middle of the film a fun, explosion-filled, action packed CGI blast fest.

We check every DEI box needing to be hit in the first action packed 5 minutes. Girl Boss is Salt. Like, Angelina Jolie in Salt. Angelina wasn't a girl boss. She was Salt. Noel (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) is the unstoppable girl boss and, yes, she's kind of bossy too. We also have supporting girl boss as the Vice President and Olga the Killer, each with less screen time than Noel. I didn't find them as egregious as they could have been. The bad guys, however are white and evil as can be. Every. Last. One of them. Including the most evil one of them all Stephen Root as the hacker with a flying toasters screensaver. Nice touch.

The adoration of President Will Derringer, silly hats, tattoos and pop culture all screams Trump except Will kind of reminds me of Jimmy Kimmel. It took me a while to get up-to-speed on Will. He is the class clown, laughable and a stupid Internet meme making jokes and screaming at the sky, some might say similar to Trump, until his liberal world views are exposed and we learn to love him in our hearts! He transitions from a MAGA goon to a real human.

And why is the British Prime Minister black? Lazy, stupid, DEI inclusion by dim writers. Could I do better? Yes! How about we make Sam and Will rival professional wrestlers. Sam is Eskimo or Native American. The two have a long and sorted past. Sam hit Will in the head with a folding chair years ago and Will still holds a grudge. That is not inclusion just for the hell of it. That's writing!

In the end, Heads of State almost comes off as a feel good movie, but it's kind of a let down. I want to keep it for a rewatch, but it's preachy and the adrenaline filled fun is always brought down right after by political jabs.

Surprisingly good

I remember seeing set images with a bunch of DEI but the movie doesn't reflect those i personally didn't see any (there might have been in the background) but still impressively accurate demographic wise for a movie this days.

Absolutely great

Been waiting for this since Breaking Bad. Overal a really good first 2 episodes. The LBTQ community is already pissed off as the first and only ‘lesbian’ character dies in the first episode. Calling it ‘buried its gays’ (Techradar article). Meaning it does not really play into the woke thought.

All in all, the first 2 episodes, woke-free.

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I love this film. It is one of my favorites.

Freddy Krueger calling. Says he already did the swing around stuff.

Damn. Now I have to re-watch the first Black Phone because I can't remember what it was all about. I can't even remember if Gail (Madeleine McGraw) was in the first film and, if she was, did she have the little boy haircut. Why didn't she object to that haircut? No harm. This film has zero, absolutely none that I saw, crazy leftist propaganda in it.

I enjoyed it. Kind of annoyed that they did the whole "Nightmare on Elm Street" dream thing. The film isn't all too original, like it takes pieces from many horror movies, but there's a plot to keep us entertained, blood and a creepy Ethan Hawk.

Black Phone 2 has an evil entity that I really like, you know, there are horror movies where you just hate the evilness running around but this movie, very much like Nightmare on Elm Street, has a bad guy who's cool. Who's up for some Grabbin'! I'm The Grabber! I wasn't hoping for him to win and get out of hell, but I was neutral. If Black Phone 2 monster got out of hell and killed everyone, I'd be cool with that. It does kind of take itself seriously, so that's a minor deduct, but it's a good film all around.