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Army of the Dead (2021)
$70m wasted
$70m to make this disaster? Clearly none of the money went on the writing. The plot is full of stupid, enormous holes and loose ends from start to finish. The tone starts off comedic then descends into maudlin. There's too much talk. You don't care about any of the characters. The ending is bit 'meh'. It isn't actually about anything, except that greed might get you killed. Even if it was a student movie, you wouldn't rate it more than one star. And all this is just down to the writing. Did no-one spot at any stage that they had written a clunker?
Intergalactic (2021)
Science fiction by people who don't like science fiction
Three bits of advice for the producers of Intergalactic; 1) Don't call a series Intergalactic when you clearly don't know what "intergalactic" means. 2) Don't fill a show with screaming hatchet-faced lesbians if you expect anyone to find it entertaining. 3) If what you really want to do is a remake of Prisoner Cell Block H, don't bother setting it in space.
Swinging with the Finkels (2011)
Very poor
Oh dear. Yet another failed attempt to do a 'Four Weddings'. Take a selection of 'hilarious' middle-class characters, throw in a bit of sexual experimentation, some London landmarks and a barrage of romantic clichés, and you have the formula for this soggy mass of mediocrity. The script is banal, the characters unappealing, and the hodge-podge of nationalities baffling (would you believe English, American, Canadian, Australian, Indian and Eurasian characters all together in anything except the Olympics?). Martin Freeman plays a remarkably unsympathetic character, and has little to do except pull his usual variety of faces. The problem with the British film industry is that it's only possible to get funding for this sort of gloop, or for gangster films.