Change Your Image
dreiz
Reviews
This Is Paris (2020)
PR job
This is all a PR job to change her public image. 'Unfiltered' yeah right. There had to be a plot revealing her weaknesses to make us empathize with her, to make us forget the two decades she spent cultivating the dumbness and vanity in people. Don't be fooled by low grade garbage like this, this is a PR stunt, not a documentary.
Nobody (2021)
Disappointed
Being really appreciative of Odenkirk's work, I wanted to like this movie and did to some extent, but there are just too many cheap sides to this flick. Dialogue is bad, the concept of the unsuspecting family man turning out to be a killing machine has been done many times over and way better than this.
Staging is pretty bad although it all feels quite cinematic, some shots and situations don't make sense. To illustrate this, take a specific shot at about the 1h20 mark with a lovely cinematic sequence that completely forgets the points of view of the "bad guys" (bad guy doesn't see Christopher Loyd's character right in front of him because the camera (we) doesn't see him yet... that's the level). Another shot earlier in the movie where the main "bad guy" shoots his automatic rifle 3m away from the protagonist's driver-side door and somehow misses him. This kind of incoherence ruins it for me because it screams that the hero is not in any danger.
The morality of this whole thing dubious at best in my opinion. The "good guy" protagonist used to execute people who stole money from the US government, as if courts of law didn't exist, and as if that's commendable in any way... Also encourages his teenage son to tackle armed intruders after thinking about it for a day (because his son was disappointed in him for not brutally hitting their assaillants with a golf club), is glad to witness harassment just so he can express his violent side, and doesn't show much respect for any part of his family life throughout the movie.
Action sequences are on the whole pretty enjoyable but this all feels like a cheap, rushed, done many times over movie.