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Get Away If You Can (2022)
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear
The 1 star rating is because I couldn't see any half stars, or 'zero' an option. So the 1 star goes to the brooding presence of Ed Harris and his character spewing off his hatred for women. Yet he's only onscreen for maybe 10 mins max?
The rest is abominable drivel. An utterly hopeless effort at some kind of allegory, suggesting this dim, annoying couple are starting the human race all over again a la Adam & Eve, on an uninhabited island. That kind of idea that might work on paper, in book form, or dealt with by talented screenwriters and filmmakers.
As it is, with it's Teenager, lame dialogue, it was no more than an excuse for the lead actress to get her kit off and show the world her breasts. And I don't say that lightly: the nude scenes were utterly gratuitous, same for the totally unbelievable and unnecessary sex scenes. The final one on the beach is downright comical in it's effort to be hard drama, thought-provoking and serious.
Again, this was all about HER getting her clothes off on camera to show the world her breasts. Absolutely dire nonsense which should never have been funded.
The Gray Man (2022)
(Very) poor man's Jason Bourne??
Despite the always likeable Ryan Gosling, this is nothing but a rehash of various action men / thrillers, ludicrous in so many ways, and nowhere near the class act and almost believable antics (except car chases) that were the Jason Bourne movies - if that's what it was trying to be? Even when viewed in the tongue-in-cheek way it was clearly made, it all amounts to something pretty forgettable, but luckily it hasn't put me off Gosling!
Definitely a movie for Instagram/Tik Tok and gaming obsessives with a very short attention span and a lust for death and killing people right, left & centre.
The Woman in the Window (2021)
Forgot I'd even seen it until now...
Totally, and utterly, forgettable. Almost switched off (twice), afraid neither Amy Adams nor the usual brooding presence of Gary Oldman could save this one. And with the score by Danny Elfman? Directed by Joe Wright? How can such pedigree produce such a mongrel? Absolutely nothing original about it either, a rehash of various other disposable schlock horror teen flicks. Can't even rate it out of 10.
Bokeh (2017)
Just awful. And pretentious, and dull.
The 2 star rating is for stunning Iceland as a backdrop, even if we've seen it all before (Stiller's 'Walter Mitty', among others). And like the temperature much of the year round in Iceland, a sub-zero rating for the horrendously amateur 'performances'. A good, if borrowed idea, wasted on way too many protracted shots of the blonde (I expect she's related to the filmmakers or writers, given the amount of screen time she gets) and the supposed meaning of life, or the possible intervention of something more mysterious.
Throw in some terrible, flat, lifeless and predictable dialogue, the lack of any sense that this couple really did find themselves suddenly alone in the world (racing around an empty supermarket on a trolley, then filling it to overflowing with 'free' stuff off the shelves??) and more. I hung on only to see how it ended, thereby wasting another 40 mins. of my life. Best avoided. Visit Iceland instead.