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Leverage: Redemption (2021)
Really good, but
Not as good as the original. If Leverage was a 10, Redemption is a solid 8. Nathan Ford can't be replaced - his personal problems added a certain edge to the show that is missing from Redemption. Aleyse Shannon adds a lot of fresh air and enthusiasm to the show, but Noah Wyle's character is a little weak. Overall, a fun show to watch. I hope it has staying power.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Ho Hum
A very disappointing movie. Slow and tedious at times, I found myself checking my watch every fifteen or twenty minutes. Scenes did not flow and were not always relevant to the plot. Seems like the magic is gone from Harry Potter movies. Where were the moving staircases? Where were Nearly Headless Nick and Moaning Myrtle? Crabb, Goyle, and Nevile Longbottom ? Sure the movie advanced the overall Potter plot and helps set up finale. But it seemed to be a bunch of individual scenes loosely connected. It was great to find the primary cast intact, but as noted above some important characters were missing. A weak effort. I've read all the books and this movie is the first one that didn't follow the book very well at all.
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Just plain awful
The movie starts out with a pretty good chase scene. But before we have a chance to figure out what the plot is, we have two or three more chases. For what we cannot determine. from there the scenes move around the world, but its very hard to know what Bond is after. This movie reminded me of a batman movie in 1997 that I walked out of after 15 minutes. Crazy loud action with no purpose. There seems to be two bad guys, but their roles are unclear. Something about water, but what? The scenes go on without any sense of sequence. The good thing is there are two good "Bond Babes" and he, keeping with the Bond tradition, does seduce one of them. But while he saves the main "babe", that's all he does. Very un-Bondlike. Speaking of Bond, he's the worst, and that includes David Niven. He has no class and is not special. Very weak. Judy Dench was the only redeeming feature of this agonizing movie - she was fabulous, as usual. This will be my last Bond movie until they get a new actor, a new writer, and new director. Oh, and an understandable plot would be nice.
The Last Drop (2006)
Unwatchable
Good grief what a waste of time. The premise for the movie is very good: troops going behind enemy lines to rescue valuable artifacts. Well, the idea might be good, but the production of this movie was horrible. The plot is hard to follow, characters difficult to identify, sound extremely substandard, and writing uneven. We actually only watched about 30 minutes of this film, lost track of who was doing what, who were the "good guys", and what was the goal of the movie. I guess it's always a risk to rent a movie with unknown actors, but this one looked good on the rental shelf. We were sorely disappointed, but thankful we had rented a second movie just in case...... Save your money, find old reruns of Combat, or better, watch great war movies like The Guns of Navarone.