That seems to be a trend with netflix films too. I dunno.

And the more i reflect on it im taking my 7 back. The ending meses it up too much. 6.

I stopped watching when the escape scene started because of all the reasons you listed.

Yeah and the worst part is the climax has alreayd happened so the audience has all but checked out any way

Wild Tales - 7/10



Really good comedy. Collection of (7?) short stories with the central theme being vengeance and the secondary theme socioeconomic power dynamics. Dark sense of humor. Really enjoyed it.

Ryan Gossling is a CIA hitman and the CIA wants him gone. Chris Evans is the guy who's going after him. Ana de Armas is also heavily featured and plays an action roll.
There are some pretty ridiculous action scenes but it's clear the directors knew what they were doing. It's pretty fantastic. It's almost a super hero movie without super heroes.
Lots of funny lines and the action scenes are f'ing amazing. They basically did a more charismatic version of John Wick and added better action scenes.

It's crazy for me to say, but for 2 hours of entertainment, it's 9.5/10.

Notting Hill

Oh waa waa i'm charming british english man Hue Grant and women dont love me waaaaaaaaaaaaaa ,,,,,,,,,,, waaaaaaaaaa

Gimme a break

I thought you’d be more upset that there are apparently no black folks in it.
I remember that being a big deal when it came out.

Richard Curtis is very much a mediocre comic writer but he does know how to frame a story for an audience in a way that appears humorous but with which the least inspection becomes quite terrifying.

That one speech with John Hannah in Four Weddings is pretty great though, even for a nightmarishly manipulative bastard.

The Devil All the Time - 8/10


Really good script. Robert Pattison is probably the best actor working today and this role he really gets some miles out of. Bill Skarsgård is really good here yoo. Tom Holland a bit less so but he isnt bad. There's just some really strong performances here and i cant help but think they out class himby more than a bit. He doesnt hurt the film though.


Narrative has a lot of depth and im still chewing on it but its a testament to it that a few hours later imstill thinking about it. The film is bleak though and i suppose thats what leaves me thinking.

Elvis - 8/10
Baz Luhrmann's direction (and Tom Hanks doing a Dutch accent in a fat suit) took a while to get used, to but Austin Butler was really good throughout and I liked the musical choices. Taken as a representation more than a literal retelling of Elvis' career and life, it's one of my favorite biopics I've seen in a while.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On - 7/10
Never heard of this before yesterday. I figured it would be more of a Pixar-ish kids movie, but it's definitely a more introspective adult movie and I think kids would be bored by it. Doesn't necessarily go anywhere, at times feels like a 90-minute therapy assignment for the director, but it's enjoyable and original and I'm glad movies like this can still be made.

How did they handle the music in Elvis? Mostly cutaways and montages or is central to the drama?

Oh its central! I believe youll enjoy it.And much like the colonel hogged Elvis and his fortune, I thought Tom Hanks hogged too much of the movie.

Trailer looked good but i was hesitant. Still might pass on in theater but I'll watch it at home for sure

It took me a bit but i see what it was driving at.

Menace II Society (1993) - 7/10

This movie is intense as shit but it's a bit over the top. It's a classic hood drama film though if that's your thing.

Ford v Farrari - 7/10


Its a testament that i couldnt give a shit less about racing or cars in general but this is pretty damn good. All real cars too. Bale and Barenthal are both really good in this.

Wind River - 8/10

Finally got around to seeing this one. Fantastic. I guess the Taylor Sheridan hype is real, although honestly everything Yellowstone-related looks super lame.

About A Boy

Oh waa waa i'm hue grant and im so rich and sexy but life isnt fulfilling,,,, waaaaaaaaaaa,,,,, this is Big Daddy for british people

I’ve never made the “Big Daddy” connection before but I like it. Adam Sandler is like taking the quaint out of Nick Hornsby and replacing it with more ass and drool.
I prefer Sandler’s take.

Death To Smoochy

Really funny... "holds up well". Robin Williams so good. was not allowed to watch this as a kid. Seems really funny that they used the tactic of framing someone as a nazi in 2002 to publicly ostracize them... so funny...

Not Okay

funny... person who wrote it spends a lot of time online obviously. kinda similar to "dont look up" insofar as how they depict people/social media reacting to stuff and the effect that has... interesting trend

Bob Roberts

This was really fucking good... was a random pick from the hundreds of laserdiscs I have

Cant tell if it was very prescient or if american politics were just always like that... electoral politics just very stupid in general... sooo funny

I’ve actually been tempted to watch that for a while so I will get on it tomorrow night.
Tim Robbins was amazing in the 90’s.

Arlington Road was good Tim Robbins… I remember being freaked out by that film when my mates parents rented it for us to watch as kids.
They also let me see The Exorcist when I was 12 though so they were pretty laid back. I remember my buddies 7 year old cousin telling his mum we let him watch Freddy Krueger and she accused the responsible adult of child abuse. Pretty funny at the time… fucked up in retrospect.

Oh man, think I saw all the "classic" horror character movies when I was waaaaaaaaay too young.


Remember being fucking terrified of my "My Buddy" doll after being allowed to watch "Child's Play".

Are you one of those bad bastard Bulger boys?

Venables the chippy child murderer, employee of the month

No, they got caught....

Prey 4/5
Best Predator film in 30 years

So the first good predator film in 30 years

It'd been better if they didn't speak English.

Check Hulu, they have a Comanche dub

Watching it now. They sure are laying the Native American crap on real thick.
Mel Gibson should have done it for them, he knows how to get the most out of his indigenous actors without making it look like a white guy told them how to do it.

Hmmm, that is one of the more impressively bad films in the Predator franchise. I suppose after the last one where Shane Black hired his pervert mate and got in trouble this new Predator film was going to have to go female and ethnic in a big way. Sadly I think in doing so the film cheapens the culture in a familiar Western style and actually casts Native American men as the supplemental bad guys alongside some fur trappers and the Predator himself. Oh and Predator uses arrows instead of plasma blasts now, because Predator might have cracked interstellar space travel millennia ago but it would take it a few more years to discover shoulder cannons. He can still turn invisible though, that’s easy peasy.

They fucked up big time not just going with “Predators were female all along” if they wanted to get woke fast.

I didn’t like this film, it annoyed me with feminism.

The worst aspect is this notion that a woman can only be empowering if she is unrealistically superior in physical contest with men and above all else a truly insufferable, stuck up bint in any moment of opportunity for acquiescence…like agreeing with or even just being civil to anybody would show her up for the weakling she surely is…

Infuriating.

This was the exact problem I had with Brie Larson in Captain Marvel.
They just turned her into a cunt.

Admittedly it is quite realistic in that Predator essentially ignores her for the whole film so he can fuck up every bloke in sight because they are a real threat but she acts like she’s the one who had a hard time.

Women though…unbelievable.

You miss Nark too eh?

@seanny "alls you need is a kickboxing women." I always see it as they only see validity in women being men. By their own portrayals if women are shown being strong in traditionally feminine ways its shown as weak or undesirable.

Same thing we see when they race swap a character. By their own actions theyre saying the only credibility is found in white characters. Everytime i see it i think...yeah a white person wrote this/demanded this. Its the great white hope insidiously burrowing its way in via tokenism. Its beyond condescending.

The kickboxing woman trope is exactly the same. Women are only valid if they fullfill male roles. Dominance through force etc. There's a sexism baked into the fabric of their feminist ambitions that should be insulting to anyone actually thinking these things through.

Its lazy, hacky and borish... and people fucking love it.

I hope it doesn’t annoy you as much as it annoyed me but it almost certainly will.

Joan Wick or Preycahontas

Aside from the wokeness it was just Predator again but instead of a hit squad made up of impossibly large men, this time it’s a group of native Americans with bodies straight out of the trail of tears.
Seriously I have a better body than some of those guys.

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Prey: 2 1/2 stars out of 4.

I mean, extra points for a lot of new things they want to try out, even with the "new" look for the Predator but it relies on the formula without putting enough of a unique spin on it. There's more humanity to it as opposed to just pure macho all the time but they could've handled the female lead angle better. The effects are a bit wonky at times. Also, it doesn't really end so much as it just stops. I don't know, for every positive thing there's an awkward thing that stops it from gaining a lot of traction. I think it's going to be one of those films that's divisive.

It made Native American men look pretty awful, both physically and by virtue of their atrocious actions.
Also here’s a niggle…flint tools would not survive repeated use, especially the way in which the lead uses them. Flinging a flint axe around is only going to break it.

I’ve decided to start a low budget franchise review only I’m starting from the last film and going backwards. Whatever I miss in continuity will be made up for in lack of continuity because as far as I can see the only constant is the lead, and he jumps from support to starring role once these bad boys go straight to VHS.
I chose “Relentless” a series of detective/police thrillers starring Leo Rossi in what must be his only shot at leading a film. He’s commonly known as the most enthusiastic bar patron in the bar scene in Jodie Foster’s semenal classic “The Accused”. He really gave that role an identity beyond “Guy that cheers on rapists”.

Let’s see how he does with a serial killer. He’s fat now but no less enthusiastic hopefully.

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For Triple A, Ossman, Slik and anyone else that finds abject history amusing in a gross sort of way.

It’s a 19 minute long documentary on a police convention in Hawaii.
Lots of interesting looking middle aged men in 1968. Men who lived through multiple wars and came home disappointed that they can’t just blow all of their problems to bits like they used to.
Did u no in 1968 all cops were white and looked like our fathers do now.

I want to know what I’d look like if I was 35 in 1968… I look pretty young, I can’t imagine a diet of boiled meats, liquor and cigarettes set to a backdrop of almost perpetual war would do me any good.
Hopefully I wouldn’t be one of them with an eyepatch, they were thick on the ground for a couple of decades. The ones with stumps were probably just industrial accidents. No respect.

Prey was....fine. Some good stuff in there but there was almost no depth to any of the characters. Really just wanted to see cool shit happen since I didn't care about anyone. Cool shit does indeed happen at least.

Did you at any point get grossed out by the bodies of the men?

There was no muscle anywhere…

I felt victimised.

Nah. Didn't even notice. Maybe because I was spacing out whenever the Predator wasn't there.

Watch it again and body shame the natives, it is what we exist for.

The Gray Man - 7/10

I put off watching this thinking Ryan Gosling, who's a great actor mind you, just didnt work as a lead in an action flick. Most times that would probably be right but the Russo Brothers put together a very good action film here.

Its not just Gosling thats good here though Jessica Henwick, Billy Bob Thorton and Julia Butters all have a pretty good showing here despite this not being an "actors movie." This film doesnt rely on characters or dialog as its an action film and its not ashamed of that.

That is of course with the exception of Chris Evans. His character is the only character in the film really but even still he's really excellent and his villian is up there with a lot of classic action villains. It should prove to be a very memorable role.

The action is very solid to good thoughout and the scenes are largely practical save a few key moments (one ill touch on in a bit.) The do a realy good job not over cutting and still keeping the pace up.

The plane scene however is a visual mess both from the CG and the cinematography. Really poor sequence. But the film makes up for it in big ways. The climactic fight is legitimately one of the best climaxes to an action film in at least 20 years.

All in all if you're in the mood for an action flick and youve got 2 hours give it a watch. It leans into tropes and it doesnt apologize for it.

Bullet Train - 3.25/5

Fun comedy action flick. Cameos galore. Some unnecessary.

Molly's Game - 9/10

Im struggling not giving this a 10. I tend to feel that a 10 is either a film that fundamentally changes the way you think or dramatically influences in a permanent way or it pushes a genre so far forward that everything that follows will have to take it into account in perpetuity and this i dont think reaches that height...but its as close to a 10 as a 9 could hope to be.

Aaron Sorkin has always been a writer the writes how i think. Fast and as precise as he can muster. As a director he's just as lean. There's not a second of this film that I'd say needed to be edited down.

Also Kevin Costner and Iris Elba give unforgettable performances. Outstanding film.

The Northman - 7/10

Fine revenge film. I had a good time. I find Anya-Taylor Joy mesmerizing. The film falters in the action. Particularly the larger scale scenes. Its well shot. Tons of great oners. The issue is the choreography itself. Stunt men waiting on their marks to be hit. Not put together very well.

Its solid though. Id watch it again after a few years for sure.

I think that’s the most spot on review of the Northman I’ve read.

Slumdog Millionaire

Good storytelling. Clever framing around the game show... the bollywood dance at the end was really stupid

No besmirching the musical number at the end please

Palm Springs

Pretty good for a romm comm... Lonely Island guys have matured slightly. Very much a hulu movie

It's a good go to drunk movie. I've probably watched it at least 10 times. Cast is ace

Made my girlfriend watch Inside Out for the first time. I know all the sad parts are coming but I still got teary eye as fuck.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
3.5/5

My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission -7/10

The first 2 MHA films were generic and soulless. This marks the first good MHA film. The series is an easy 10 but the films have 5s at best. Its because of one central failure: the films have been typical shonen and MHA goes far far beyond Shonen.

Standard Shonen is most typically represented in franchises like Dragon Ball and One Piece. They portray heroism as power. Goku becomes a better hero, and saves the day, by finding new skills that allow him to overcome his adversaries by force.

MHA challenges the Shonen tropes at their core and instead says power is not what heroism is. It is instead more akin to reciprocity. Selflessness. Sacrifice. Determination. Compassion. Relentless desire to achieve a goal not for yourself or your loved ones but for all. Because. Simply because. Because right and wrong exist and so does good and evil and I've chosen a side.

This is illustrated in many ways throughout the run of the series but no more clearly than the iconic chracter All Might, the single best representation of a hero since Superman.

All Might is, like the name suggest, mighty. And beyond all. His powers are all brawn all the time. But that has nothing to do with what makes him the greatest Hero in over 7 decades. His herodom comes in the form of inspiration. Through his will and endless fighting spirit he inspires others to be better.

The previous films were Shonen. This film finally taps in the soul of what a MHA story is made of and for the first time delivers something that resembles the high notes of what is the best ongoing anime today and what will hopefully end up being the best "shonen" ever made.

Is it as good as the shows highs? No. Not at all. But it holds it's head high all the same.

The animation deserves criticism here though. Its an industry standard now by mapping traditionally animated 2D characters onto digital 3d background and it is excessively done here; several sequences are very ugly to look at. 2 scenes they digital camera work is particularly awful. The 2 in particular being some of the most difficult to follow sequences ive ever seen.

The action in these films always seems pointless because theyre noncanon and we know everyone established is safe leaving the fight scenes that arent integral to the climax feeling pointless at best.

All in all though i think this film has a ton of heart and the new character really had an outstanding arc, im very happy it finally released physically after nearly a year of waiting.

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I was actually under the impression the mha movies were canon.

they are but they arent. The 1st film is straight cannon and resolves a set up ep mid-season. The subsequent 2 films are self contained so it basically never happened.

In the 2nd film Baukkugo and Deku lose all memory of the events so the joining with one another so it has 0 value. The 3rd film happens mostly out of Japan and nothing about it adds to any greater arc or is left unresolved. So effectively it never happened.

And thats the deal. Even the 1st film beyond getting set up mid season, inside a single self contained ep that could easily be called filler and simply not watched, the films dont add anything.

They "happened" but since what happens doesnt matter they essentially never happened at all. Its cannon in name only.

And once we the audience recognize this we then know that at the end of the film everything will be left as we entered like a procedural anthology series so there's no tension in anything beyond the new characters. No characters are going to die for example. So the fights have no drama.

And tbh id prefer the films not be canonical. Just focus on where the drama does exist instead of "well we gotta shine up our main trio so lets get a B and C fight going to give them something to do."

Just give Todoroki and Baukkugo something interesting to do inside the central conflict instead of out of it. Even if its inside the central theming and not the central fight. Run your B and C fights but use them to explore the main theme as a juxtaposition. What they've repeatedly done is literally just throwaway fights void of any narrative. Fights for fights sake.

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I definitely don't get into shows/movies to this level, but often enjoy reading your in-depth reviews.


This one is spot freakin on. I didn't understand the hype around "another anime show" until I started watching with my son. This is one of the best series I've watched in AGES. I've finished the series before my son did, hehe.



I was big into Ghost In The Shell and Stand Alone Complex (I know, low bar of entry, blah blah blah). Enjoyed the series MUCH more than the movies. The Laughing Man, The Individual Eleven and Hideo Kuze..... god damn those are some great stories.




Got sidetracked...... kinda wanna go watch SAC or 2nd Gig now.

its an amazing show. Its everything mythology is supposed to be.


And the low barrier shows are the place to start imo. Theyre popular for a reason.GitS is a classic.

Looking to start the second one sometime today

My senior year in high school a friend brought in a VHS of Ninja Scroll. I had never watched it nor knew anything about it.


My Econ teacher was truly a moron, and I'm not trying to be disparaging at all, she really was not "all there". FFS, we played a "stock market" game and she called Boeing, Boing. Like the god damn cartoon noise....




Anyway, she had no plans, so I popped that movie in and the whole class watched. The scrambling when the nudity hit was hilarious. The teacher tried to get to the tv, but of course we were all yelling and cheering and being teenage twats, so she couldn't.


I was lucky I didn't get suspended for showing "porn" to the entire class. If that shit happened in a class today, I don't wanna think about it...

FUck yeah, memory unlocked!!




Violence Jack. I remember my local Blockbuster (lmfao) started getting a small anime section. I rented all of the Violence Jack ones they had and holy shit batman.......




Vampire Hunter D - I remember that one too, now.

You are an odd wee fella

A'thank you.


Took me a while to get here, and I'm not interested in having a shrink undo all my hard work.

Last Night in Soho - 7/10

I always struggle to rate films im mixed on. I'll start with praise cause there's a fair amount to appreciate

Immediately this film is visually striking. It has a clear voice and it grabs you in the first few frames. You're able to feel like youre in good hands and it really lets relax and go on this journey. and the 1st act has some great visual effects and some wildly complex practical effects thats are just super interesting to look at.

Casting is excellent. Thomasin McKenzie id had only seen in JoJo Rabbit but she was outstanding there and she is here too. Anya-Taylor Joy is sex personified and leans into it in a way that allows her to command every scene she has.

I'll try and be vague about the plot here because this does live and die on the plot and the less you know the better. I'll say that it unravels its mystery in a way thats very satisfying.

Unfortunately the plot is incredibly discordant. Tonally its 3 films and they blend pretty poorly where they butt up against one another. That said once the "new" film gets momentum they do manage to get you back but id be lying if i said it didnt take me out of the film multiple times with these hard pivots.


Ultimately i think the film is a visual treat and should probably been seen just for the sake of SEEING it. These mirror effects are mostly practical and theyre wild technically and the rest is just icing on the cake.

Ikiru (1952) -10/10

I've always enjoyed Akira Kurosawa and was falsely under the impression that he only made samurai films. I come to find out he made contemporary dramas as well. This was the highest recommended one so I watched it first...and it's one of the best films I've ever seen.

A scathing critique of bureaucracy and a deep look at the meaning of life. A man stares forward toward his death and looks back at his life and sees nothing in both directions. There is a millennia of wisdom baked into this film and I think the world would be better if everyone had seen this film. Beautifully acted and well written. Easily a masterwork.

Lolita (1962) - 9/10

Very racey film for the peroid. It remains visually striking like all of Kubricks work. He frames his shots like theyre paintings making even the dullest scene interesting, not that any of these scenes are dull.

In a lot of ways this film is echoed later with Eyes Wide Shut but in obviously very different ways. The subject matter is more taboo today than then and it was way very taboo then. Kubrick is fearless though and goes headlong into a tale about sexual obsession with a minor and in this film there are no winners save the audience.

Best quote from the film:

Wife: "Oh honey when you touch me i go as limp as a noddle"

Husband: "...yes dear i know the feeling"

I prefer the sexy 90’s version

I might check it out someday but i cant imagine Adrian Lyne making a better picture

All this talk about Kubrick makes me wanna go re-watch A Clockwork Orange again.


Love that film. Didn't quite get it all when I first watched it (was young, really young) but watched it many MANY times again.


Favorite scene is when they break into the house with the exercise obsessed lady and Alex (Malcom McDowell) starts hitting the giant cock. That entire scenario is fantastic. I really shouldn't laugh, but it was too funny.

There's a bit of misdirection in that film i really appreciate. Near the top of the film the gang comes on another gang about to rape a girl and they run them off. There's this moment where the audience can think "these guys are thugs but have a moral code." Only within 30 min to have them show that no there is no line. It makes the home invasion scene have a a sense of betrayal on top of the violent horror.

I'm a bad person :(

Oh for sure. The worst.

:lol:

Saving Private Ryan - 8/10

The storming of Omaha would be the best war sequence ever filmed to this day if theyd never made 1917. Of course i wouldnt judge a film against what was made after it im simply saying its really a cut above. At that point there's nothing put to film thats better.

Like that opening battle the film takes all the romance out of the picture and replaces it with sorrow and fear but it manages not to lose heroism which would have been very easy to do. Fear is a theme throughout the film even in a character who's central arc is hus own cowardice and boldly he doesnt overcome it at all. Instead it costs him his humanity in some ways; the war leaving him less honorable than it found him.

The thing that impressed me the most with the picture is the casting though. The secondary and tertiary roles are littered with talent but they arent what youd expect to find in a war film. This cast seems like the people you would find in any neighborhood anywhere in America. Theyre normal people who've been burdened with mountainous task. There are tough guys about but they remain human and not charactature.

Where does it rank among Spielberg's best work? Hard to say. Close Encounters, Jaws, Indiana Jones, ET, Jurassic Park, and Schindler's List. These films are known to basically everyone. Saving Private Ryan belongs in their tier i think without question. Whati think i can say is was his last truly great film up to this point. He's made good films since. Catch Me if You Can for instance but nothing thats on this level of excellence.

Will he ever again? Time will tell.

Bullet Train - 9/10

Ridiculously fun and entertaining...

Im looking forward to that coming out on bluray

I will watch this film every single chance I get. Amazing. This is the first film I played when I got my Atmos system and FOOOOOOOOOOOK.

Wreck it Ralph: 8/10

Took off one whole point because while tolorable in this, I could still tell it was Sarah Silverman.

Nope

Good... very "visually striking"... didnt totally understand everything that was going on... lots of little funny stuff... good...

Cant imagine watching this, I read the book and despite it being fantastically written and engrossing it was thoroughly disgusting and i feel like what made the book so good was all the little details that get stripped away in film adaptations. I just watched Anna Karenina after reading it and the same thing happened there, these russian guys specialize in that stuff and the hollywood treatment just changes the focus of the work as a whole. I get that if you go into a film adaptation of the book looking for the same experience or w/e youre gonna be disappointed but that combined with the subject matter just yeah don't want to go near that

I think avoiding that is what makes the Kubrick film work. Its all very understated but clearly there and if you've read the book it adds a richness to what goes unsaid

Elvis - 8.5/10

Enjoyed it.... sad

if it doesn't end with him on the shitter, then 0/10.

Being the Ricardos - 7/10

I expected to hate this. Ive never found Kidman particularly convincing and with her as the lead i didnt have much to rest my hat on. She doesnt light up the stage but she doesnt get in the way of the picture.

Kidman aside i love Sorkins writing so i watching this was inevitable i suppose. Its good. Not his best but its good. Communism is at the core of the plot and knowing Sorkins politics i expected a very different picture than the one i got.

Still i think the film works even with the glaring issue. Largely thanks to how good the cast is. Jarvier Bardem, while not a career high, is excellent here and his singing voice is alarmingly good. JK Simmons steals every single scene he's in. I could go on.

All in all its not a bad picture or a bad script. Its solid. If you're interested in the premise i think give it a watch. Its the freshest take on McCarthyism since the 60s...mostly because its been the exact same take from Hollywood since the 60s but still. If you like Sorkin give it a go. If not give it a pass.

Top Gun: 6.5/10

Was ok I guess.

Trying to watch morbius for the 2nd night in a row. Bet i fall asleep again

Well there's always tonight i guess

Welli finally managed it


Morbius - 3/10

Talk about a shit show. I leave the film feeling very bad for its actors. Its not their fault. This script has nothing for them to do. How they didnt know that going into this is beyond me but here we are all the same. Matt Smith and Jared Harris have the only decent scene in the film but sticking two A+ actors alone in a room and theyre bound to get something interesting out of it. Fortunately for them no ones seen them in this film so their shame should go largely unnoticed.

The film is rushed. There's a saying, for decades, that American films dont have a 3rd act. Generally i think this is pretty true. Especially with popcorn films. Act 1 set up the characters. Act 2 peak the conflict. Act 3 reverse everything we did in act 2. Credits.

By that logic this film doesnt have acts. Its an exercise in reaching an end state. There isnt a narrative developing instead its a race to a finish line where this character can exist in a larger pool.

Our hero's journey is purely to defeat the villain. The villains motivation is crush kill destroy. A better A plot would have been dealing withhis hunger and searching for a sustainable solution. It would give us something to rally along side Morbius and would make his actions herioc. Saving people from himself. The villain can be the B plot. A foil in his efforts.

Instead its visually uninteresting action with powers randomly occuring with no set up so the audience doesnt feel anything when these McGuffins fortuitously arrive.

It's writing at its laziest. That's so because this film was never seriously contemplated. Instead they focused on a finish line they were never going to cross.