NoWo's Reviews
Same as #1: pretty and shallow
Same opinion as for the first movie: visually ambitious, lacks the depth of the original comics, but still entertaining, and Perlman is a miss, sadly in the titular role.
Created: 07-13-2024
Visually interesting, but not quite up to the comics
The movie nails Mignola's visuals rather accurately, although Del Toro's influence is unmistakably there.
The actors do a good job with their respective characters.
All this, except for Hellboy. Which can be construed as an issue in a movie named Hellboy.
In my opinion, Perlman misses the character by a country mile. His HB comes off as arrogant, big-mouthed and immature. Which is to say, Perlman probably shines through the makeup. Said makeup being vaguely adequate only.
All in all, a rather fun action romp, but lacking the substance of the comics.
Created: 07-13-2024
Style over substance, again
Solid cast, solid cinematography, solid choreography.
Add to the long list of things that don't work like that: Paris hasn't looked like that since, well, barely within living memory.
Fun though. And Donnie Yen. And Scott Adkins.
Created: 07-07-2024
Reeves still tries his best, but physics have checked out
Style over substance.
Reeves is actually convincing, but kevlar doesn't work that way. Neither do blades. Or suppressors. Or a lot of things.
Still, a fun pop-corn super-hero movie.
Created: 07-07-2024
Entertaining, albeit forgettable
Also, stylish. Very stylish. More stylish than realistic.
Created: 07-07-2024
Mindless fun
never hurt anybody.
Except the dog and a few dozen Russians.
Created: 07-07-2024
Still a good movie, even knowing the plot twist
Speaking of plot twist, Singer gives his audience just enough elements to actually see it coming.
Solid cast, solid storytelling, no complaint.
30 years later, it's sort of funny to see Spacey playing a criminal mastermind whose every accuser die suddenly before trial.
Yep, got that right.
Created: 07-07-2024
The birth of the emasculated male lead?
I remember seeing pieces of episodes from the first season(s?), and thinking, yeah, show's OK, but not enough to watch alongside my wife.
I also remember seeing later episodes, and wondering why bother casting Nathan Fillion, when incompetent male lead (tm) can be played for cheaper. Don't know how far into the series, but the red-headed daughter had grown out of baby fat and very much into adult face fat, so, anti-depressants in potential conjunction with alcohol can't be ruled out.
As for the show itself, what little I've seen was rather clever, Fillion is just good, and Katic has presence, just not quite enough for Fillion to bounce off of. Close, but no cigar.
Created: 12-04-2023
Extreme(ly unlikable) girl boss on the French Riviera
Skipped through 2 episodes, couldn't watch.
Tries to be a mix of The Persuaders and Castle with current-year updated aesthetics. At least succeeds in the script emasculating the charismatic, hyper-competent male lead.
So yeah, Castle.
As for the two female leads (yeah, two, might be a lesbian arc in there in further episodes), the actresses are true to their characters.
Professionally pathetic.
As cops, they should lose their job and freedom twice or thrice an episode. They are actually worse than Crockett and Tubbs. In between violating code, regulation, law and common sense, they bark at every male in sight.
As actresses, well, they shouldn't have gotten the job to begin with. And, contrary to their likely opinion and the judgement pushed on by the script (they are the chosen ones that every male yearns for), clearly not attractive enough to compensate for their wooden acting.
Planks, really. Utterly stiff, and flat on both sides. Don't know if easy to lay down. Don't care either.
To be fair, they are able to alternate between resting bitch face and talking bitch face, so I suppose there's that.
The male/female dynamic is the only woke component as far as I saw, disregarding the background virtue-signaling social stance of well, everybody. But it's in your face, at least mine, all the time, and extremely loud.
Plot is cookie-cutter, episodic whodunit of the week. With beyond cliche, formulaic overarching plots for the leads (estranged teenage daughter and wrongly-accused good-cop father).
Also, fight scenes, thankfully short. Most Europeans seem unable to correctly hold a firearm. Must be genetics. As in missing chromosomes.
Fisticuffs reminded me of a simpler, more innocent time: Sinanju Master Chiun says, they move like baboons with two club feet.
Aside from the main characters and script, well, Cannes is a beautiful city, and secondary characters are all smokeshows. Good actresses too, quite possibly. Same goes for the males, probably, I can't really judge.
Wasted almost 40 minutes on this, which I could have used to rewatch Remo Williams...
Created: 12-04-2023
Tuned down wokeness, but forgettable albeit colourful bubblepop movie.
I wasn't into boy bands at the time, which is the theme of this installment of Trolls.
Come to think of it, the moniker is half right: they were not bands, just a group of singers/dancers, but they definitely were boy, not man, archetypes.
Also, stupid, as most bands were, and still are, boy bands. Meaning, 95% lads. But I digress.
Script written by AI, with incorrect number of fingers. Tries hard to be less woke, because wants to make money. 2010s level of woke, so, still barely sufferable.
Has Schumer (less disgusting absent the flesh and liberty to speak her own opinions), boss babes (relegated to secondary female and villainess), gender-dubious characters (but not expressly gender-bent), inept male power figures (but male heroes, albeit explicit left-leaning).
So, yeah, milquetoast. Concessions. Will be criticized by some for not going far enough, by normal people for being ideological drivel, and by all for being a tepid show at best.
Created: 11-27-2023
