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Sexy Beast (2024)
Dodgy Accents
There's one glaring problem with this right from the start and that's none of the main characters are played by people from Essex. I don't always think that actors must only come from the place their characters are based, but I do have a problem with actors playing roles with accents they simply can't do. The 3 main leads are not only not from Essex, they aren't even English. Again, this doesn't need to be a problem, but in this case it is. It's not that they can't do a "perfect" accent, I wouldn't expect them to, but they can't even do a half-arsed job of it. First thing I noticed was the accents, they're clearly not from Essex, not even close. Think more Dick Van Dyke or Ewan McGregor than Jack Lowden. I don't think I'll be able to continue with this as the accents are so bad.
Masters of the Air (2024)
Disappointing
The introduction is like one of those daytime straight-to-TV films starring some people that look vaguely familiar but you can't put your finger on where from and amazingly, it gets worse from there on in. I'd hoped to grow into it but it's not getting me. The whole thing feels heavy-handed & full of clichés. Shame, as there are loads of good actors and the budget wasn't a problem (although you will be hard pressed to work out where all the money went). For all the effort that's gone into making this, it feels strangely cheap and fails to extract any feelings of sympathy towards the characters other than the general barbarism of war, which feels like an opportunity missed.