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Entertaining crap

posted 2 years ago by Drooch (5333)
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This is a third rate thriller elevated by Morgan doing his (excellent) Detective Somerset schtick from Seven.

It moves at a good pace and has some neat twists and turns.

The shocking thing for me is that Lee Tamahori, who directed the underrated modern classic The Edge with Hopkins and Baldwin, also directed this. The opening few minutes features some of the worst CGI ever (rivalling Tamahori’s woeful ‘para-surfing’ scene from Die Another Day) and a character wearing a hilariously obvious prosthetic face 🤣

Fans of the book seem to loathe the film, but I’ve never read it and don’t much care to. The film is a perfectly watchable, albeit dumb, thriller.

[–] howgamer (3634) 2 years ago

It's certainly not Seven, but overall I really enjoyed it. I love the genre though so maybe that's why. The opening CGI was downright lazy and awful. They easily could have shot a much better scene without all the CGI crap.

The Edge was a good film, Hopkins and Bart were great as always.

[–] Drooch (5333) 2 years ago

Yeah I like the genre too - a twisted killer, bit of mystery, some violence, good characters, exciting twists - it’s bizarre we never see these mid-budget pulpy thrillers anymore.

Gone Girl was the last one I remember and that was nearly a decade ago. Hollywood seems intent on peddling mega-budget superhero schlock or endless remakes, all terribly written and crammed with tedious woke messaging.

Mediocre piffle like Along Came A Spider looks like a masterpiece compared to the dreck oozing out of Hollywood these days.