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Hit Man (2023)
Hit Man is a mystifying bore-fest
Glen Powell was blah in his last "big" movie, "Anyone But You". Here, things don't improve, although this time his female costar is just as extravangantly luscious as Sydney Sweeney, only brunette. His character, Gary Johnson dresses up in wigs and hats and costumes and assumes accents and personas to convince qould-be criminals that's he's a real hit man, but only they believe him - the audience certainly doesn't. One critic, Jason Fraley, describes the rom-com arc of the plot as "Fifty Shades Of Gary". The film is emotionless and gutless and packs zero punches. I kept waiting to laugh or be intrigued or moved or something... but nope, nothing/
The Gentlemen (2024)
A mad, juicy, delightful romp peopled with real and "accidental" criminals
There are dukes and princesses and commoners and criminals (who's to say which are which?) There's an understandably frustrated brother whose every attempt at fixing things goes desperately wrong, much to our collective delight. There are crazy aged aristocrats with machine guns shooting at busloads of tourists. There are fistfights, gunfights, knife-fights, explosions, intentional and accidental and near- murders, a just-enough-but-not-too-much amount of gore, and a palate-cleansing sprinkling of love interest. Everything you could possibly want from Guy Ritchie at the peak of his craft, and more, thanks to a superb cast and a sparklingly witty script. Pure pleasure!
The Ex-Wife (2022)
Absurd two-dimensional people behaving odiously
Half of the first episode is intriguing, although the excessively juvenile Ms Buckens is a bridge too far as far as casting goes.
Then the not-so-fun begins, as everyone, from the husband and his ex to the husband's despicable family and various bit players intervene and throw shade, nay hatred, on Ms Buckens, for no discernable reason, other than the fact that she dresses like a ditsy teenager and is always either pathologically perky or pitching snark far beyond her ability to reach her targets.
How naive does one have to be to marry an obviously massively wealthy man but not demand one's own bank account or pre-nup or legally-guaranteed share of the goodies? Who is brainless enough to not know or question where one's passport is? Oh, it's all too inane for words, and yet...
It ends with his brain-dead body doing that "Oh yeah? Look at my twitching finger, ladies!" So is he coming back to wreak more havoc?
Heaven forfend, once was more than enough.
Around the World in 80 Days (2021)
Delightfully updated vision. If you want the book, read the book!
Only two episodes in and I'm enjoying the whole cast, especially watching a timid Fogg man up.
Those calling the new series "too woke" don't seem to understand what the terms "diversity" and "inclusion" mean, or prefer to ignore their existence.
Let's see what the next episodes bring. Perhaps I'll lower my rating, perhaps even bump it up.