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In case you haven’t seen the intro from my entry dated
1/26/19 (it’s in my archives whenever you want to read it), I’m no longer going
to review every single movie I see. I’m
going to review one, with the occasional bonus, and just give ratings for the
rest from now on (unless I decide to pick it up again in the future). You can always ask me why I gave the ratings
for the films without reviews though (via comments or the e-mail addresses
under the ‘About Me’ section).
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Synchronic OK/G
The directing duo behind this, Justin Benson and Aaron
Moorhead, also gave us Resolution, Spring, The Endless, a segment of V/H/S:
Viral, and the episode entitled “8” in the most recent season of The Twilight Zone. [My favorite film of theirs so far is Resolution, which ended up tying in with
The Endless, a film that felt
incomplete viewed on its own]. If you’ve
seen any of those titles, particularly the first three mentioned, you can
likely deduce the filmmakers dabble in the bizarre, but are compelling
nonetheless. This newest film may be
trippy at times, but is largely straightforward with nothing open-ended about
it. In it, a paramedic from New Orleans
decides to take a popular new drug on the streets called (wait for it…)
Synchronic after learning he’s dying and to try finding his co-worker’s
daughter who went missing after taking said drug. You see, this drug has the power to take you back
to certain points in time that occurred at the exact location you take the drug
at. You only have a certain amount of
time in this drug-induced “time hop” to return to the same spot you took the
drug in before being stuck there forever.
Trust me, it all makes sense if you see it visually. While the concept is great, I felt it
could’ve been expanded upon much greater.
It is a decent film, yes, but I wasn’t entirely satisfied, and I felt it
may have ended a bit too positively.
Perhaps I’m just too picky. Or
perhaps my expectations were too high. I
don’t know. I’ll always be interested in
what the directing duo puts out though (although I can’t believe they co-produced
She Dies Tomorrow, which is not only
the worst movie of 2020, but one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen!). Perhaps there will be a companion piece like Resolution and The Endless and I’m getting too far ahead of myself? 1/20/2021
Bonus review:
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous (Season 2) OK
…I’m looking forward
to the 6th Jurassic Park
movie or 3rd Jurassic World
movie (whatever it is), and I can honestly say I had fun with this series in
the meantime. I did. The end suggested this could continue and I
say, “Bring it!”…
Those were my final words for the review of the first
season, which you can read in its entirety in the archives (www.abcreviewarchive.blogspot.com),
and now here we are with season two of the animated spinoff available on
Netflix. The same characters return with
about three new ones added. It is eight
episodes again, all but one being 24 minutes, the last one being 23 (the credits
are always included in the total). The
episodes do go by rather quickly again and there are a few suspenseful scenes,
but I just didn’t have as much fun this time; this season ultimately felt like
a cash grab. As of now, season three is
not confirmed and it could very well happen considering this season didn’t
completely end, and, if it does happen, I hope it’s better than this
season. I can’t not continue considering
how much a fan I am of the franchise. 1/23/2021
Other
movies I've seen and their ratings (see above):
Getaway (2020; dir.
Lane Toran) >>>OK
The Night They
Knocked >>>OK
Spell >>>OK
---Sean O.
1/24/2021
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