CineMono
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- Resident Evil
A fun side quest through the Resident Evil universe. Austin Abrams is a great physical actor and brought his signature frenetic energy to the role. Zach Cregger delivered an enjoyable mix of gross out, psychological, and jump scares, managing to translate the experience of playing the games into a cinematic event.Resident Evil - Obsession
A perfect take on the wish gone wrong tale. Inde Navarette offers a stellar performance. Barker makes a smart choice in keeping the story relatively tight and straightforward, allowing for focus on a handful of truly unsettling scenes rather than cluttering the landscape with convoluted lore. Magical premise aside the characters are grounded in reality and believable. A clever first feature that keeps the scares coming while delivering some deeper ideas on love and consent.Obsession - Primate
Surpassed my expectations. A fairly straightforward bottle premise. I appreciated the practical effects and found them very affective. Had they gone fully digital I personally would not have been able to suspend disbelief as easily. What could have been a goofy schlock fest was an engaging and suspenseful ride. While I'm not sure it garners multiple viewings, I recommend a watch.Primate - Red Rocket
Rex's performance is great as is most of the casts. It feels as if Baker was unsure of how to end the film and there is no real resolution for characters. Does Rex's character learn anything? Do his actions amount to consequences, revelation, insight? Not really. As such the ending is a bit flat and anticlimactic.Red Rocket - Apocalypse Now
I'm increasingly convinced Coppola is not a good director. The Redux cut IMO does not enhance the story. The addition of the plantation scenes stall the narrative, and while perhaps offering an interesting aside to the colonialism of Vietnam by the French it's placement in the timeline is awkward. It's a stumble right before the crescendo that's been building for 2 hours.Apocalypse Now - Oculus
Couldn't get past the lead actresses performance. Rather forced and an oddly unappealing approach. Her resentment read bratty and it irked me enough to pull me out of the story. Unfortunately I didn't recover and only made it about 30 mins in. I didn't even get to Jared Harris whom I always enjoy.Oculus
