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Shôgun (2024)
Uh....Ten Hours of Buildup to What, Exactly?
My least favorite part of any action movie is usually the "boss fight". But my god this show demonstrates why you need one. There was about ten minutes left in the last episode when the horrible realization sunk in on me.....this is going to crest on the closing credits shore as the weakest tsunami in history.
All that buildup......to nothing.
The show has some great acting and wonderful scenes. The scenes would have looked better with a little less Vaseline on the lens, but that's the style these days. Better than "shaky-cam" I guess. And insane amounts of detail went into costumes and dialogue, and I do love that. But we end up with.....next to nothing.
Also our main European character was just outright annoying. I kept waiting for him to find his footing and stop acting like an overly excited chihuahua, but it never happens. Even after he earns the respect of his Japanese hosts. It makes his rise in stature that much more inexplicable.
Can't imagine ever watching it again.
His Only Son (2023)
Cash Grab Based on a Story Nobody Should Revere
ATTN: If you hear a voice telling you to gut your kid, please contact a mental health professional.
Slow, plodding, and not true to the source material. Isaac was Abraham's second son, he had an older brother named Ishmael, so the title of the film is a misnomer at best. It's understandable to make changes in Biblical stories because to accurately portray most of them in a movie would cast the Bible in a very bad light, but this was a very basic and glaring omission.
It's understandable how in The Ten Commandments Pharaoh doesn't drown in the Red Sea like the Bible claims. That would open a huge can of worms and cause many people to realize the story is fiction. But to name this film His Only Son when Abraham had two at the time he was told to gut Issac to slake Yahweh's blood lust is like calling the DeMille classic The Five Commandments. You know half of it is missing.
There's no good reason to watch this, either as entertainment or as a religious exercise.