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robertjhale
Reviews
The Predator (2018)
Not the Chinese censors then...
I just watched this movie in a cinema in China and through the whole thing I was wondering if the weird editing and gaping plot holes might be down to the Chinese habit of cutting chunks out of films, After all the Chinese running time is about twenty minutes shorter than the official running time. Now that I've looked at the reviews here I realise that with or without the cuts it's just a bad movie.
Sinister Squad (2016)
Well, I liked it
The reviews for this are almost uniformly negative but I thought it was daft fun. Are the performances Oscar winners? No, but a couple of them are pretty good in an eye-rolling scenery-chewing way. Is the plot derivative? Of course it is but so are a lot of movies with a hundred times the budget. Is the title a blatant cash-in? No question about it. In spite of all that I enjoyed it. (And I also enjoyed the two Avengers Grimm movies which have stolen very little beyond the actual title). Frankly I enjoyed it about ten times as much as Suicide Squad which I truly do rate as one of the worst films I have ever seen.
Stranded (2013)
How low can you go?
Is it possible to give zero or is 1/10 the lowest available? If it's possible, I'd like to change my rating. I watched the movie with my Chinese girlfriend and with Chinese subtitles. I don't speak the language myself but the subtitles made more sense than the movie did. It's a bad imitation of far superior genre movies such as Alien, Species or The Thing and its attempts at building suspense were so predictable that they were more laughable than scary. I've seen plenty of low budget movies that were pretty good but this most certainly wasn't one of them. The closest I can come to finding a single redeeming feature is that it was short.