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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre - 6/10.
It seemed like it wanted to be more than just another action movie. There were a lot of great locations and action scenes, but they lacked oomph. There was basically never any danger - Jason Statham seemed like he was sleepwalking through every single enemy. I don't think he even once was anywhere close to losing a fight? It got kind of boring but there was still a lot of spectacle and things to enjoy, like Aubrey Plaza who was funny as an overly cheesy seductive sidekick.
The Covenant - 7/10.
Quite tense war movie. The behind enemy lines type film is pretty rare I feel, and what they did with it in this film worked really well. Other things less so, especially the last part which seemed rushed and crammed into the runtime (which they should have cut by 10-15 minutes) and just.. that type of final big battle at a big location/compound is a boring an overused trope. Jake Gyllenhaal was great as ever and so was Dar Salim who is a Scandinavian icon.