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28 Days Later (2025) - An Apocalyptic Mess

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    28 Days Later (2025) The trailer for this film fooled everyone a little, but I think I'm among the MOST disappointed of all. This is truly ass.
Not only is it a joke, but personally, it's a poorly executed joke. $60 million to make a movie with an iPhone, which, look closely, you can tell from a mile away was made with an iPhone. The premise was pretty cool, and from the first chaotic minutes, it seemed like everything was going well, but then the film really got going, and what I found myself facing shocked me. Terrible production, banal direction, and rather dated stylistic choices. Often, shots were out of focus, or the camera movements were shaky, or the cinematography was "not cinematic," rather homemade. I was still giving the whole thing the benefit of the doubt.  This benefit was lost in the "return to the village" sequence, where elementary-school CGI, coupled with crappy, overly-maneuverable direction (with those fucking Northern Lights that yo...

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) - An Epic Finale

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  Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning  (2025) I have always been a fan of Tom, and consequently also of the Mission Impossible saga, dear to the actor for more than 20 years. Despite this, I have to admit that I have not seen every single film. I am sure as hell that I have seen the last 4 or 5 and the 3 most recent ones (counting this), so Fallout and Dead Reckoning I saw them all in the theater. And yet, it was the first time that I went to the cinema not perfectly "aware" and prepared for the idea that it was the last film of such an important and long-lasting saga. I enter the theater, also with my grandmother who is a mega fan of Tom (I must have taken after her) and what passes before my eyes over the course of 2 hours and 50 minutes is a breathtaking blockbuster that perfectly closes a legendary saga. I have read many criticisms online, mostly born from the open ending that many say is "not very satisfactory" or from some choices in the script that made...