Saturday 27 July 2019

Atomic Blonde (2017)

A superficial blend of a handful of different films (Tinker Tailor..., Drive, Boogie Nights, Children Of Men, Skyfall) with a bland, meaningless story of spies who all seem to know each other and their secrets and yet trundle on regardless. A veneer of 80s neon and predictable song choices doesn't elevate it. There is one impressively long one-shot action sequence which is fun, although it's stylistically incongruous in its Hardcore Henry-level cartoonishness.
Rating: Bad

Wednesday 17 July 2019

Alien: Covenant (2017)

Stupendously bad.
It's like the writers thought, "Right, why didn't people like Prometheus? Because it was too cerebral. So let's make this the dumbest, cheesiest, tackiest version of an Alien movie ever!" It still had all the origin bullshit and people acting like idiots from Prometheus, but then it was like AvP Requiem levels of shitty horror for the rest of it, with people having sexy showers before they get killed and painfully obvious 'oh no he's the real killer!' twists, and big dopey action sequences where everyone's bouncing around like it's a Pirates Of The Caribbean movie.
They had Alien POV shots - a mistake not even the shittiest of the previous films made - where it's revealed that it sees everything exactly the same except with a kind of wriggly snot filter.
And the origin stuff is even more stupid and makes even less sense now.
Embarrassing.
Rating: Awful