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Jagveld (2017)
Very enjoyable ride!
This movie far exceeded my expectations. Leandie Du Rant was outstanding, in addition to being delightful in appearance she was very convincing as an actress, and as a survivalist. The story was well done, the supporting characters were fun, though sometimes over the top, but that ended up being part of the fun too. The writing was quite decent, the settings were bleak and great, and the entire premise felt somehow credible. Definitely a well made film and a rather refreshing change of pace as I don't watch very many films from South Africa. The vigilante theme is always fun, and it was very well executed here.
The Instigators (2024)
Just a horrendous train wreck
The director Doug Liman has five very good films under his belt, several that are decent, and nothing but turkeys since 2017. This is right up there as one of his worst. Roadhouse was pretty difficult to sit through also, but at least it had decent writing and even though it was silly and dumb it was also humorous and it had two very charming leads who worked very well together.
In this particular case I don't know how you can make a bad film with Casey Affleck, Matt Damon, Ron Perlmam, and Alfred Molina in it? It takes a special kind of skill to screw that up, but even though they are both tremendous talents, they just had nothing to work with here. The script was so thin and so unimaginative, the humor was so vapid, and so unfunny, it was a rather difficult film to sit through and it had very little in the way of entertainment value. The car chase was both unnecessary, too long andmikes beyond credible. So we're the scenes with fully automatic weapons being used on a small area, without anyone getting hit. Do the studios think we all have an IQ under 70?
It is likely that they tried to save a lot of money on the script. Affleck has no experience writing good scripts and the other writer is also terrible, so had they spent 100k on a good script this might have been a good film. It was a very poor choice and it's hard for me to imagine a studio executive sitting down and reading this spectacularly unimaginative script, lacking even one funny line, and saying oh yeah this will work. Was the guy 15?
Pain Hustlers (2023)
A fairly decent film
This movie was very well made, and it's a rather fascinating story, however what really is displayed in this movie from a legal point of view is a total fiction. Even the Insys founder Kapoor who this Garcia character was based on, was sentenced to five and a half years, the sentence was delayed due to covid, and when he finally served his sentence it was in a minimum security prison and he was let out after 2 years. That was a travesty of justice and that shows you just how weak the American judicial system is, how compromised they are, and just how unwilling they are to go after medical professionals and the Big Pharma mafia, for over prescribing drugs that kill.
The problem for Pain Hustlers is that in humanising Liza, it loses its edge. It's too concerned with conventional storytelling and the need for a character to root for that, although Liza is doing dodgy things, you're never far away from a reminder that she's doing it for her daughter, who's in need of life-saving surgery.
In the last several years only about 200 people have been tried for crimes of this nature out of tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people that are engaged in these crimes. That is moral bankruptcy, that is ineptitude, that is pathetic, sickening, disgusting and deplorable. Law enforcement really needs to answer for this crime of not pursuing this with more vigor.
Longlegs (2024)
A very fun performance by Cage
It's really nice to see Nicholas Cage back on form again, it seems like in the last few years he's taken on some more serious projects that have been able to showcase his extraordinary talent. This was a fun film, at times I didn't really know what I was watching, but it was quite absorbing. It has a slight horror element to it, but it's more of a kind of a police procedural film with a slightly occult twist to it.
Nicolas Cage's performance was so much fun, he really hammed it up, and it somehow seemed very appropriate for this story. Maika Monroe was also very good.
After successfully apprehending a local murderer, Agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) is given a new assignment. Her boss, Agent Carter (Blair Underwood), explains that Oregon has been home to a serial killer for decades - and an anonymous serial killer with no overt body counts or ties to the crime scenes at that. Longlegs (Nicolas Cage) is suspected to have caused the deaths of a dozen families over the last few decades, but the only evidence the police have is encrypted letters he left at the crime scenes. For all intents and purposes, the deaths are the result of murder-suicides in seemingly normal families. Given her aptitude for the unknowable, it is now Harker's job to find Longlegs and bring him to justice.
Well done. A good film, and a strong production.
Target Number One (2020)
A very well made film
This was likely a very accurate and true story and it's probably something that is fairly close to reality in many circumstances I know that in the US the authorities are very overzealous when it comes to trafficking and underage sex crimes. It is likely many of the cases are fabricated or based on incredibly flimsy evidence.
Leger is set up by desperado drug agents in Vancouver. It is an utterly filthy and depraved story, and the Canadian government has always behaved in a cowardly and morally bankrupt manner, and never admitted the facts. Légar was caught, found guilty, and escaped the death penalty for heroin smuggling by pleading guilty (after his conviction!), then sentenced to one hundred years in a jail that would make you wish you had not pled guilty and accepted the death penalty. He would have been incarcerated still, were it not for Victor Malarek (Josh Hartnett), a journalist who acted as a one-man Innocence Project, searching for a way to get a page one scoop for his newspaper.
The entire production team was very good, Josh Hartnett did an excellent job, as did Antoine Olivier Pilon, as Leger. The only issue I had was the hand held cinematography, part of the time. I do hope that fad fades eventually. It is dozzying.
The Thai settings were very authentic, I can testify to that as I was in Thailand in the 1970s and it looked just like that.
Pathology (2008)
Very, very dull
When I watch a film like this I try to find something in the way of a redeeming quality, I try to find something in the way of a redeeming performance, I try to find something of value. Some little nugget something that's just slipped in there to prevent the film from being just an utter pile of garbage. Some level of redemption somewhere, and as hard as I searched with this movie, I could not find it. The film was supposed to have a sensuous element and yet there wasn't a single sex scene that was the tiniest bit hot.
Marc Schölermann's slow-moving, oddly somber directorial choices, as the filmmaker's straight-faced sensibilities seem consistently at odds with the unapologetically tawdry nature of Neveldine and Taylor's script (ie the material almost demands a tongue-in-cheek, Crank-like approach). The inclusion of a nifty twist ending and a few admittedly effective kill sequences notwithstanding, Pathology generally remains unable to overcome its inherently flawed premise and it's finally impossible to view the film as anything more than a sporadically compelling yet hopelessly inconsequential piece of work.
I have no idea how this film got made, why it got made, who the audience was, or what the intention was of the director, and writer. It had no entertainment value whatsoever, and there was not a single character that was the tiniest bit like about other than maybe the fiance.
This movie was just an absolute piece of junk.
The Killer (2024)
It is barely a 5
While I went into this film with low expectations, I was simply hoping for a bit of entertainment. Emmanuel and Omar Sy are both excellent, and they really fill up the screen, but unfortunately they just did not have much to work with here. The action sequences were overly long, as is the Hollywood custom these days. Lots of action, very little beef. The script was the weakest part of the film, there were a lot of very implausible aspects of this thing and it seems like it was very PC version of the original film. And it felt like it did not need to be made.
Zee getting hung up on saving the innocent just did not seem that plausible to me, and the amount of time spent developing their friendship and relationship was pretty ridiculous. Overall this film was not satisfying, not convincing, and Woo feels long past retirement age, at this point of his career. I really think he should hang up his spurs.
Chandu Champion (2024)
An exceptionally good film
I found nothing but enjoyment from this film it was so well done it was presented in such an elegant fashion even the song song and dance routines which I normally find tiresome in many Indian films were delightful and downright funny this is a story of a truly heroic man who fought Against All Odds to achieve an absolutely fantastic dream put his Nation on the map and bring glory to his people, the Indian army, and his village. Kartik Aaryan and Vijay Raaz both give astonishing performances.
The first few scenes take us back to his troubled childhood, where he's bullied by his father and his nasty peers who mock him for his dreams of winning an Olympic gold for his country. He's called a loser and is pushed to the fringes by a system that's designed to ridicule anything that's ambitious or unfamiliar. Pushed by his elder brother, he joins a wrestling camp in his village but finds himself driven out of it because he dared to win against a fellow wrestler kid of a village chieftain. He then joins the army, hoping to follow the likes of India's famous sprinter Milkha Singh and get his foot into the Olympic race.
Petkar was the first Indian to win an individual gold medal in the 1972 Summer Paralympics with all odds stacked against him, and director Kabir Khan is careful about corralling together nuggets from his life that are designed to endear him to us.
The emotionally-charged scenes like the one where he charges ahead despite a possible head injury are wonderfully acted and rendered. The movie soars when you see a bunch of the world's best specially-abled swimmers giving it their all. Those laps are swiftly handled but drive home the urgency and evoke incredible euphoria.
Fly Me to the Moon (2024)
Just barely a laugh
I wanted to like this film, I typically like Scarlett Johansson, and I'm indifferent toward Channing Tatum. I really don't think he's done that much good work, the conclusion that I've come to is that he's just not leading man material, he's not convincing, there's something about him that's off-putting, he's not particularly funny, and I think he would be much better suited to supporting roles.
Harrelson's (I am a big fan, but he was wasted here) government spook makes Johansson stage, you guessed it, a fake moon landing, as a contingency in case the real one fails. She reluctantly goes along with this, unbeknownst to Tatum, as the real landing is taking place, even though she feels like she's betraying him.
This extended finale is clumsily staged, but that's not what's offensive about it. The "Fake Moon Landing" narrative is one of the quintessential paranoid American folk legends, likely arising, I've always suspected, among the many people who insisted that the moon landing was a ridiculous folly and would never succeed--arising, like so much else in our toxic national discourse, from the common American inability to admit it when we're wrong. Fly Me to the Moon means it all facetiously, of course, but this doesn't strike me as the most auspicious time in our country's history to lend even that much credence to a conspiracy theory.
This movie tried to be a lot of different things, it tried to be cute, it tried to be funny, it tried to be charming, it tried to be clever, and I don't think it succeeded on any of those fronts. I found it an effort to sit through and I did not find it entertaining, so if it's not entertaining what is it?
Bones of Crows (2022)
A blight on the Catholic Church
I'll say this right up front, this was not an easy film to sit through as it examines a truly horrific century of Canada's past, and the complicity of both the Canadian government and the Catholic Church in not only rampant sexual abuse, but also child abuse and outright genocide of the indigenous people of Canada. No benefit was afforded these children. These were not schools. This was not an education. It was a prison term, carried out by sadists. It's a harrowing tale not easily forgotten. There is some redemption, there is some admission of guilt, but way too late and not nearly enough.
By setting the film in a Christian institution, Bones of Crows illustrates how the Catholic Church ran most of the residential schools contracted by the Canadian government. In Aline's story, priests and nuns take on villainous roles as colonists, rapists, and abusers. Crosses hang prominently in hallways and rooms where Aline and Perseverance are imprisoned, hammering home the fact that injustice was trotted out in the name of Christianity. The lesson culminates in a dramatization of the 2009 apology by Pope Francis, used as an opportunity for Aline to look her oppressors in the eye and send them a proverbial mic drop. None of this critique comes with an ounce of subtlety, but it's certainly important to educate and remind mainstream audiences of the atrocities doled out by the Catholic Church against Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Such an astonishing level of moral bankruptcy and downright perversion, carried out by an institution that's supposed to be representing the teachings of Christ.
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
There was nothing there. Pure emptiness.
Going in my expectations were low, as I was not super fond of the original, but even with no expectations I was disappointed. There's really no story here, it's just a lot of filler. It could have been good, had there been some thought put into, who the aliens were, why they came to earth, where they came from, what their purpose was, why they're hearing was so extraordinary?
Had the writers given 5 minutes of thought, had any effort been put into any of that it could have resulted in a reasonably intelligent script. Instead all we had was someone running around trying to survive, questions about why anybody would hang on to a cat and risk their lives for that cat, and the never-ending search for pizza.
This was about as close as you can come to an empty vessel as any movie I've seen in quite some time, and that's saying a lot.
Intouchables (2011)
What a joy to watch
This was my second time viewing the film and it was at least as joyful and as fulfilling as the first time.
I must admit I've been an admirer and a fan of Omar Sy for quite some time, he brings so much charm and so much presence to his performances, and he absolutely owned this film. He was spectacular, however Francois Cluzet was also brilliant, and the film was very well crafted, beautifully directed, and just a lovely, joyful, funny, uplifting take on humanity.
Because Omar Sy as Driss sucks all of the oxygen on screen, it may be too easy to overlook the masterful performance by François Cluzet as Philippe. He's the balancing understatement to Sy's showboating, though the latter won a Best Actor César, France's Oscar, for this role, beating out Jean Dujardin of The Artist. Talk about splitting hairs. Both are charming, effortless, and have an old-school showbiz sensibility. However, Dujardin's performance is more vulnerable. Both characters would make fun blind dates, but you can be assured that Driss wouldn't lose your number.
News of the World (2020)
A film of humanity and wonder
The film was a Western in the classic sense, but it was so much more. It was just a story about humanity, and about the inherent goodness in some people, and it was a narrative about possibilities when faced with bleak choices, and limited possibilities.
As usual Tom Hanks was fantastic. He is such a masterful actor. Helena Zengel was a revelation, she turned in a pitch perfect performance. The direction was outstanding, and the entire production was award-winning. It was my second time watching the film, and I liked it at least as much as the first time, if not more.
The only issue I had with the film was the handheld camera which is a trademark of this director, who does wonderful work but the handheld camera just has to go. It's a terrible trend and hopefully it will eventually find its way out of Hollywood, and into the dustbin.
Touch (2024)
A outstanding film with a cross cultural theme
For me this film is a rare gem, the likes of which you rarely see. It had an elegant story structure, sparsely written characters, and a great soundtrack. The direction was excellent, the performances were very sincere, and very convincing.
I love the weaving of Icelandic and Japanese characters into a late 60s- early 1970s London setting.
Kristofer was a student during the time of demonstrations against the establishment for supporting the war in Viet-Nam, and as a radical quit college to work in a restaurant. His fatherly Nippon boss Takahashi-san taught him how to prepare Japanese meals and helped to teach him Japanese, though he seemed to have possessed a passion for it.
Miko likes the swinging London scene, while her conservative dad, who migrated here from Hiroshima, is more reserved. Because dad wouldn't approve, the couple are secretive about seeing each other.
Kristofer is surprised when he shows up to the restaurant one day and it's closed without any information about what happened and where the family might be.
The story meanders back and forth back and forth and was told in a very loving and nostalgic fashion. For me it had a pitch perfect ending, which is uncommon. This is really a lovely film.
Masters of the Air (2024)
Ranks up there with the best of them
This was an astonishing series that very realistically depicted the horrors of war, the incredibly difficult and dangerous missions that these guys flew, and the extraordinary level of heroism that the greatest generation displayed with their valor. This was likely the last great war that the world has ever seen as everything since has not even bordered on being a righteous or necessary war. Very well cast, an astonishing production, and pitch perfect direction, soundtrack, editing and costumes.
These guys were fighting German and Japanese terrorism and putting their lives on the line every day. They didn't want this war but this war was brought to them, and they behaved with a tremendous amount of courage.
Based on Donald L. Miller's book of the same name, and scripted by John Orloff, "Masters of the Air" follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the "Bloody Hundredth") as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen, and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air. Portraying the psychological and emotional price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of Hitler's Third Reich, is at the heart of "Masters of the Air." Some were shot down and captured; some were wounded or killed. And some were lucky enough to make it home. Regardless of individual fate, a toll was exacted on them all.
Capharnaüm (2018)
Bleak, desolate and hopeless
This was obviously a very popular and successful movie, having been nominated for best foreign film and having won many awards around the world. I was looking forward to seeing it, and the entire time I was watching it I was trying to find that message, I was trying to see the profound nature of the story, and I was never able to find it. I found the film dull, I found the handheld camera nauseating, and I never once found the movie or the story gripping.
I guess it was just lost on me. I tend to like dark films but this film was dark to the point where it was about utter hopelessness, and it seemed to delve into a society that was so devoid of humanity, and decency.
Zain's resourcefulness, developed over the years of living in poverty and pretty much having to fend for himself, is on full display, as he scams and steals in order to preserve his own life and the life of a child who has no one else. Labaki and cinematographer Christopher Aoun shoot the entire movie with a handheld style, giving it an air of realism, but these scenes, filmed on location across the impoverished parts of Beirut, have a level of authenticity that's devastating. And the camera work is dizzying.
The same, unfortunately, cannot be said of Capernaum as a whole. The narrative's framing device eventually returns, as we learn how Zain came to be in prison and how his case came to the court. It's a lengthy third act that makes us think the screenwriters might have some answers for the issues underlying Zain's story. Instead, it's just a means for the filmmakers to make us feel slightly better about this one, fictional instance.
The Bikeriders (2023)
Alot of preening, not much substance or story
This is a fanciful film that attempts to romanticize biker gangs and make them into fairly normal people that we can relate to. The cast was great Tom Hardy's always good, Austin Butler was good but was used an an advertisement for biker clubs, and spent too much time posing. Michael Shannon was more or less wasted. Jodie Comer's accent was very annoying.
The director has had four good films under his belt so he certainly knows what he's doing, but this project seems to have gotten away from him. I think he was under the impression that he was directing something different than how it turned out. I think it was created as a sort of a poetic overly romanticized ode to the bikers of yesteryear, but the reality is that there really just wasn't much story here. There wasn't much about the story that was believable or credible and the film just did not feel like it had any kind of rhythm or flow to it. It just felt like a rambling tribute to fantasy bikers. And it did not feel authentic.
I really wanted to like this film, but I found it very difficult to like the film. It felt like a hollow vessel. Very contrived. No substance.
Young Woman and the Sea (2024)
A very good film, but not an accurate depiction is history
This was a very good movie and I enjoyed every moment of it the lead actress was fantastic the direction was great her family members were all excellent and believable the sets were great and it really gave you a sense of the period in New York the issue that I have with the film is that it veered a bit from Real History in that it didn't dwell enough on her staggering achievements prior to the Channel swim and it completely glossed over her Olympic accomplishments which were very significant she won three medals, including a gold medal, for God's sake. I don't know why the movie needed to play that down, it seems like a historical Injustice, for the sake of some drama.
Just to give you an idea, Ederle grew up in Manhattan where her father ran a butcher shop on Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan and learned to swim in Highlands, New Jersey. Ederle later trained at the Women's Swimming Association (WSA). Ederle joined the club when she was only twelve and immediately took to learning the American crawl, developed at the WSA by Louis Handley. The same year, she set her first world record in the 880-yard freestyle, becoming the youngest world record holder in swimming. She set eight more world records after that, seven of them in 1922 at Brighton Beach. In total, Ederle held 29 US national and world records from 1921 until 1925.
At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Ederle won a gold medal as a member of the first-place U. S. team in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay. Together with her American relay teammates Euphrasia Donnelly, Ethel Lackie and Mariechen Wehselau, she set a new world record of 4:58.8 in the event final. Individually, she received bronze medals for finishing third in the women's 100-meter freestyle and women's 400-meter freestyle races. The U. S. Olympic team had its own ticker-tape parade in 1924.
This is a very good film a very inspiring film and definitely worth watching.
Epidemiya (2019)
Halfway decent, but very annoying
This show is really awful, the acting was really amateurish, and being pursued by a Russian army of terrorists. The two lead women were just absolutely evil and if all women were like that the world would experience negative population growth in a hurry. Without a virus. I guess for me these days the Russian theme just doesn't work anymore. I used to really enjoy Russian cinema before I realized just how degraded their society had become, now there's just no joy in it.
Things escalate much quicker than they have for us, and whatever airborne menace is afflicting these characters is more menacing than covid. Alongside the usual coughing and spluttering are blood-red eyes, a dead giveaway that someone is infected, and a useful narrative tool. Pretty soon, the urgency of what's happening drives a big cast of characters together for a long journey north to the titular lake.
The Dead Don't Hurt (2023)
In the end, I wonder it was worth it.
This film certainly had potential and it was quite a decent film, it just never really felt like it established much momentum. I think there were some issues with the pacing of the movie, and the story had some very questionable aspects to it. Overall I just don't think that Viggo is much of a talent as a director. He's an astonishing actor and he should stick to acting. The two films that he's directed to date were both decent films that never really went anywhere.
Mortensen moves the story around so much, in fact, that it can be a little difficult to pinpoint when in time certain scenes are taking place, with Holger's changing facial hair one of the notable markers. Playing around with time is not a new concept, of course, but the way Mortensen employs it is a little frustrating in execution. Holger and Vivienne's relationship is what everything else in the film revolves around, and having it broken up into non-linear pieces lessens its impact.
I think had this been done with the capable hands of a talented director it might have been a good movie. I love westerns, but I can't recommend this film, unless you enjoy watching paint dry.
The Last Ship (2014)
Silly and low quality, written for juveniles.
I could barely get through the pilot episode, the characters seem so contrived, the script seems so hokey and silly and childish, it has Michael Bay stamped all over it, which is not a good thing unless you like his ra ra style blockbusters, which is just not my thing. I prefer to keep it real, and there's nothing about the show that feels real. Neither the lab on the ship, nor the lead scientist, nor the Russia vs. US silliness (considering it is the end of the world), nor the behavior of the crew when faced with the most dire news they've ever been given in their lifetime. It's overly sentimental, the amount of efforts spent saluting one dead soldier when the entire world has disappeared did not feel authentic, and there's really nothing about the show that I enjoyed other than the ship. Just because of the ship and the concept it had potential but it was completely wasted, and unless you were a huge fan of Con Air and that kind of tripe, you'll probably not be into this show.
Another thing is this is the Golden Age of Television, there are so many outstanding shows out there, why even waste your time on something this middling?
The Convert (2023)
A very excellent film
I would have expected the reviews to be quite a bit higher on this film, the production values were outstanding, the direction and editing were excellent, the historical aspects of the film were fascinating, Guy Pearce was as good as he's been in a very long time, and the rest of the cast was superb. Virtually all of the Maori Warriors were a joy to watch, and my guess is that some people might have been put off by the intensity of the violence, or perhaps the anti-politically correct story of tribal people fighting each other.
The ancestors of Maori arrived on canoes from Pacific islands before 1300 CE. Settling first on the coast, they hunted seals and moas. They also began to grow food, and some moved to the forests. They lived in small tribal groups, with a rich culture of spoken stories, and strong traditions of warfare. Their ancestors, and the gods of the natural world, were very important.
The arrival of Europeans from the early 1800s had a major effect on these early communities. Among the newcomers were missionaries, and many Maori became Christians. They learnt to read and write and began trading, especially in pigs and potatoes.
I really don't know why the lackluster reviews, but this is a really excellent movie, and it has stayed with me since I watched it, which is always a signal that I viewed something of great substance. I highly recommend this film.
Trigger Warning (2024)
Could have at least been entertaining
I must say Jessica Alba is easy to watch as she's so easy on the eyes, she has really matured beautifully and that's a real tribute to her. Although she's a decent actress she just didn't have anything to work with here, the script was beyond elemental, it was so corny, silly and it was barely interesting. Kind of a generic corrupt kids in a candy store kind of storyline, with a bad politician to boot, surprise!
There's zero soul in Jessica Alba's eyes. Her grief is sudden as her character Parker looks like she barely cares about her father's death, despite flashbacks implying they had a close relationship. I think the movie would have benefited have they shown more flashbacks with her father and built that storyline up a bit.
Parker loves using knives. It's her main form of attack. Coupled with this, Parker exists in a seemingly normal world, apart from the fact that there are no parameters on who can be killed by her knife-wielding actions. Roll on the lousy choreography, and you have the equivalent of a University-made film project injected by big finance. I'm not against cheesy action movies, but you lose the audience when there are no narrative rules or threshold to what needs to be achieved. The "fun" of the action becomes mind-numbing.
I could easily say it's about Parker looking for the truth of her father's death, but the conspiracy keeps peeling back, with a dreadful script and oddly implied lines. Again, it doesn't help that Parker does not seem to care that her father has died. Her obsession with slicing people up may have suppressed her emotions entirely. I don't know how and why this character was created. The writers needed a niche character for Jessica Alba to own, but they gave her a Dollar Tree version.
When I go into a film like this I go in with very low expectations, hoping that I will simply be entertained, but in this particular case that just did not happen. This movie is not entertaining, it was too poorly made to be entertaining.
Firebrand (2023)
A total distortion of history
"Firebrand" is the type of movie that gets it right when it comes to technical crafts, such as production design, costume design and musical score. And there's nothing terribly wrong with the acting performances in the movie. Law as the villainous Henry is entertaining to watch. Vikander's is very good as Katherine. Even with these assets in "Firebrand," the movie's message is very misguided in how problems are dealt with at the end of the story, even if it's complete fiction.
The prying gaze of the Church and Bishop Gardiner is too powerful to let her sneak past. Gardiner is manipulative, cannily planting ideas into the King's head that also further his agenda of ensuring his own formidable authority. If the tide of reformers is allowed to gain root in the realm, he is well aware he stands to lose everything. The Church draws its weight and influence from the language of instruction, Latin, which impedes direct, easy access between the commoners and the Bible,
So, why the need to distort history to this extent? Any student of history knows that she was not locked up, and that Henry squashed the Chancellor's and the morally bankrupt Bishop's efforts prior to it going any further, so why the need to show her in prison, and why the need to make up her last visit with Henry? That was completely ridiculous, and even if you had bought into the film up until that point, anyone with respect for history would have to say that Hollywood had completely dropped the ball on this one, with such a lack of respect for facts and what really happened.
The Pastor (2016)
Very marginal
I kept waiting for something to happen and for the life of me a few days later I still cannot figure out what this movie was about. If anybody knows what this movie was about could they please post something and try to explain it to me?
This movie was slow, it was plodding, and it really did not seem to have a point. There was really no build up, there was really no climax, it had barely any action, the movie felt extremely low budget, and every lack of dollar showed on the screen.
The lead actor was not convincing, the supporting characters were blase, and I would say that there was absolutely nothing about this movie that would cause me to recommend it. I suggest saving 2 hours of your life and watching something else.