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There’s like 2 or 3 scenes where Hugh Jackman gets to act. Those are pretty good until you realize we’ve seen those beats already in a better movie. Moreover, there are a couple of well executed fights, for example there’s a tracking shot near the end that was definitely a lot of fun. Besides that, I wouldn’t hesitate to call this a schlockfest. The script is so tacky and forced, it makes The Flash seem coherent by comparison. Don’t even try to put any effort in understanding the logic or motivations of characters, even more so than No Way Home the script is just there to link together whatever’s on Reddit’s wishlist. The comedy has only gotten more infantile since Deadpool, it’s self-aware to the point where it becomes extremely irritating. It already knows what people are going to bitch about, but rather than fixing those issues, it just throws them right back at us. Pointing out the lazy cameo porn in your own movie doesn’t mean you get a pass for doing it. Hugh Jackman is a sellout for doing this piece of junk, yes we know mr. Reynolds, very cool. This movie is like a piece of bubblegum, it’ll lose its flavour once the dopamine starts to wear off. There should’ve been way more focus on the relationship between Wade and Logan, as well as the villain (pretty good performance by an underused Emma Corin). That’s the core of the movie, but it’s pushed to the background in favour of being an extended SNL sketch. Technically the film’s not very good either. Shawn Levy still doesn’t know how to shoot a movie, almost everything looks fake and washed out, especially when compared to previous Deadpool installments. The score is entirely forgettable and the basic b*tch needle drops - while ironically funny at points - get a bit eye-rolling. Throughout I just kept thinking about the use of DMX and the more subversive spirit of Deadpool. Why is this movie so much dumber when its audience has matured by eight years? Shouldn’t we push the subversiveness a little bit further with the introduction of shows like The Boys? Clearly it doesn’t hold back in regards to language, drug references or violence, and it even allows for Feige and Disney to poke fun at themselves. However, it all feels watered down and calculated, which essentially renders the character meaningless. Is Disney just too afraid to deconstruct its own bread and butter besides acknowledging that they’re at a low right now? I’d argue you’re not gonna save this genre unless you’re willing to take an honest, critical look at what’s wrong with it. What better character to do that with than the merc with a mouth?

3/10

I feel like I need to watch this movie throughly because it's rated so high and I can't see why.

Firstly our killer Anton escapes his cuffs faster than a magician that needs a piss. He strangles an officer looking a like crazed rat with a lego man haircut. Then he kills another man with a cattle gun whilst being polite. So I guess this is our psycho?
A man called Llewelyn slowly follows a blood trail through a drug deal gone bad and finds some money. He goes back home to his wife who's character relies on asking question after question. Llewelyn sends his wife away and decides to go back to the dangerous scene because.. It's really a basic plot set up? He out runs a jeep until he escapes into a river where he out swims a dog and shoots it. I'm fine with that.
Anton is back. He's now in threaten mode. He's questioning questions... because that's a deep and psychological character trait for a slow walking, frozen faced, mumbling psycho cliché. There's a coin toss full of pretentious meaning for the sake of making Anton appear a complex. Feels more like for a Hollywood award. Anyway he kills two more. Still no police interested in this escaped psycho. Is this a glorified slasher movie?
Sheriff Ed appears. He's to old for this shit and appears a bit senile.
Anton brakes into Llewelyn's home with the cattle gun. It blows locks clean out. He traced Llewelyn because he went back to the drug deal scene (obviously killed people there too) and found Llewelyn's jeep and some personal items. He drinks some milk to leave behind a clue.
The Sheriff is not far behind because he was also at the drug scene and recognised Llwelyn's jeep. He gets to Llewyn's home and jokes they're after a man that drinks milk like they're clueless. How about start with the escaped psycho that has connections and killed an officer?
Llewelyn gets a motel room some miles away with free hbo and hides the money in the air conditioning system. The movie is pretty good so far apart from the philosophical terminator aka Anton.
Llewelyn, who doesn't know the money is bugged switches hotel rooms anyway, still has access to the money through the air vent system. Another lazy set up for a scene that leaves holes.
Anton traced the money pretty fast and walks around barefoot outside the motel room. Quirky. Anton enters Llewelyn's first rented room and kills three cartel members who are also after the money and have traced it. How did they get there? Didnt Llewyn notice as all he's doing is listening out?
Llewelyn escapes and you'd think he'd move to the other side of the country. Nope. He hitchhikes still not far enough away for the tracer to be ineffective. A new motel room. No hbo. By the time Llewelyn actually checks the money (why only now) and finds out he's bugged he hears someone outside the door? There is some good tension building. Obviously it's Anton who is a dab hand at using tracer by now. I think Anton killed the desk guy at the motel. Still non police or witnesses. The police have better things to do like question the point of it all.
A motel gun fight ends up in the streets. Nobody is around and nobody calls the police. Antons prefer stealth method during this tense shootout is to noisily walk slowly in the middle of the street. Guns are fired and Anton the escapologist dissappears.
Injured Llewelyn hides the money and gets into Mexico because he's drinking a beer and wearing coat whilst covered in blood. Brilliant disguise. Is that a typical Mexican?
Woody Harrelson's character Carson has previously been seen talking about how crazy Anton is. Because we never would have guessed. Here he's found Llewelyn in a Mexican hospital. How did that happen? Dont ask. The only questions must be from Anton asking questions about question. Carson takes a walk and happens to find the case of hidden money. Carson is psychic? Carson returns to his room and bumps into Anton. What timing. Anton attempts another illogical deep and meaningful Oscar nomination winning chat but is interrupted by the phone ringing. Anton shoots Carson in that cold way psychos in average movies do and answers the phone. Bye Carson. Thanks for being a part. Anton and llewelyn exchange threats on the phone. The movie is getting a little slow now with only half an hour left.... at some point Anton killed Carson's boss and got all deep again but I forget when....
Llewelyn goes to another motel room after being let back into the United States because he was in Vietnam. Great. Murcia! Proud. So why not just go get your wife now and vanish? Nah.
The Sheriff, obviously on his own because it's merely a simply drug cartel and mass murder case, finds a dead Llewelyn in his hotel room after the cartel sped away. Sheriff Ed is still wandering to himself what it's all about. That's what his character does rather then call the FBI.
Sheriff Ed goes back to the motel where Llewelyn was murdered. Why? He notices the lock has been air shot out. He's noticed this pattern. The only thing he has noticed. There is a coin on the floor. Sign of a coin toss whether Anton would shoot Ed? But Anton is in the room hiding. What timing Anton has. Ed goes away. He's had his pointless visit.
Time for Sheriff Ed's Oscar winning chat with a pal. It's no country for an old man y'know...
Anton finds Llewelyn's widow because he's keeping a promise to kill her. Just how deep is this Anton? She asks for mercy and the best Anton can offer is a coin toss. Because life is a coin toss.... We don't see if he kills her or not because that would be obvious filmmaking and we want it to be obviously unobvious. Just like the anti climax death of Llewelyn. Genius. Where's the award?
Anton is in a car accident that you easily anticipate. It's his very own coin toss. How clever. Genius. He has a bone sticking out his arm but refuses to stay for an ambulance. Does he even have to worry if an officer shows up? Nobody cares about mass murderers.
Sheriff Ed with some final coming of age dialogue and reflection . END

The movie had potential but Anton in particular was a stack clichés. Why did Anton want tge money anyway? The hell is he going to use it for? Maybe we'll see him gambling in a sequel screaming 'Vegas baby yeah' while killing someone with a chainsaw?
I can't recall any character development at all. The plot was a decent man hunt at times (I can excuse a few coincidences) but it was full of coincidences and the time line was a basic dot connec2ti on that wasn't even hidden. The dialogue was fine but pretentious with Antony and stagnant with the Sheriff. People lap this stuff up to feel smart about themselves and to feel like they've watched something special. Movie manipulation at its finest. Also the filmmakers show that if you use good actors and make a film look good enough and add pseudo intellectual dialogue, you can get away with it. This whole movie feels it's sole contrived purpose was to grab some awards and be credited as a smart movie. Pretty self indulgent film making. Job done I suppose. I don't even mind bad films if they know they're bad and entertain but when they pretend they're clever with cheap dialogue and then attract elitists.. annoying

This is a very weird movie, but not by its content. Hard to tell whether it was worth watching.

Visually it's nice, extremely clean and ordered. But 90% of what happens has absolutely no interest. Family picnic. Wife showing the garden to her mother. Some random conversations. Dictation of work letters. Administrative work. It is very boring, soporific even.

The only interest comes from knowing who those people are and the whole context, and the contrast with the banality of their lives, with the clinical simplicity of administrative decisions.

The whole camp is hidden behind a wall. There is just a background noise, far away, muffled, some cries, some gunshots. And the chimneys smoke.

Among what is banal but extremely shocking by the context:
- The mother complaining she could not get her neighbour's curtains.
- The commander getting a new post, but her wife complaining about losing her garden
- The sales pitch of the new generation crematorium
- Being so happy that the plan is named after him that he calls his wife in the middle of the night
- Ashes used as fertilizer in the garden

The only small moments that acknowledge the violence are:
- the wife, upset, threatening the maid that she could have her incinerated just like that
- the commander having a young girl sent to his office
- in the commanders meeting, the word "extermination" is said once, but all the rest is just logistics and quotas

At the end, a cutscene shows people cleaning the camp, and it takes a while to realize they are cleaning the current day Auschwitz museum, I guess showing the continuity of mundane tasks in all circumstances.

So in the end, this is definitely a work of art that succeeds in what it's trying to achieve. However the boringness is what makes it special, and you can't avoid the fact that it is mostly boring. Not to watch when sleepy or tired.

"Little boy. Believe the impossible"

I was captivated by the acting, as well as the cinematography and special effects contained on this great production. I'm glad to see that the filmmakers and actors are bringing this kind of messages to the world through art reminding us that love is the force that brings us all together and that's the path to follow as humanity. I loved Eduardo Verástegui's performance by showing Little Boy the importance of faith. It made me think about how we must have the strength to defend the truth even when some people don't see it. It also made me remember that if we have the courage to go the right way and follow our goals or dreams, based on good intentions, God will give us what we need to get trough difficulties. Not only is it a very entertaining movie with a deep emotional content, but it is also an example of kindness and compassion, great job on bringing all together. The film made me cry, laugh and feel identified at some point with the characters. It takes you on an exciting emotional roller coaster with a beautiful message at the end that will take your breath away.

Feels like a combination of Silence and There Will Be Blood. It's one of those movies that's really good at immersion; the cinematography, sound effects and score are all so accomplished that you're immediately transported into its world. For as pretentious as this may sound: you will feel the Icelandic cold of this movie. There are so many vistas that have already burned themselves onto my memory. However, it's probably a good thing that the film managed to hold my attention through just the technical aspects, because the writing can be lackluster. Sometimes it's slow to a fault, for example the first hour really should've been cut down to the more essential bits as there's way too much indulgence here. It feels like it only gets going in the second half, because that's when the conflict and themes get introduced. You need some of the set-up from the first hour, but it feels too drawn out. The arc of the main character is also utterly predictable, effectively hitting the emotions it's trying to sell, but not in a particularly surprising way. Still, I liked what it was doing overall and it's the kind of film that deserves respect. It's undeniably a piece of quality filmmaking with subtlety, substance, style and good performances, but definitely not for everyone.

6.5/10