Peneflix MOVIE REVIEWS BY PENEFLIX
AMAZON PRIME has three films that were running in theatres the day of the apocalypse; you may now purchase them.
“THE INVISIBLE MAN”: THREE & 1/2 STARS (Reviewed March 1, 2020)
“EMMA”: THREE & 1/2 STARS (Reviewed March 5th, 2020)
“THE HUNT”: Investing in this solipsistic diatribe by director Craig Zobel was a colossal blunder; politically pejorative, elites kidnapping and killing for sport “the poor, tired and huddled masses.” Gratuitous, merciless, savagery lends nausea to its ignorant, cruelly inciteful premise. ZERO STARS.
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Do not be misled by an actor you admire; these two films testify that no matter the skill, an actor cannot “make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear’; an enticing film out of a poor script. Case in point:
“FREE FIRE”: director Ben Wheatly with seasoned actors: Armie Hammer, Brie Larson and Cillian Murphy cannot legitimize this filmic detritus: murder and mayhem visited upon the most worthless, unimaginative characters, was justified. ZERO STARS.
“THE LAST THING HE WANTED”: directed chaotically, confusingly by Dee Rees, (“Mudbound”) with seasoned cast: Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Rosie Perez, Willem Dafoe, commences promisingly with journalist “Elena McMahon” (Hathaway) unearthing U.S. intervention in El Salvador and Nicaragua during the Cold War; goes precipitously awry when she is assigned to cover Ronald Regan’s re-election campaign (1981-1989); disastrous transition, Elena, because of pleas from her delusional father (Dafoe) goes to Costa Rica (in heels and a cocktail dress) delivering guns and supposedly collecting a fee. Hathaway’s handsome performance cannot save this disastrous, disjointed movie based on Joan Didion’s 1996 novel. ONE STAR!
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