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Rian Johnson’s latest Knives Out entry is, bluntly put, a cinematic fake. A thoroughly artificial product in which nothing feels truly authentic. Wake Up Dead Man resembles a birthday cake overloaded with food coloring: loud, colorful, and largely devoid of substance.

The visual design reflects this hollow sense of unreality from the outset. The colors are emotionally seductive but quickly become intrusive; mood is not built as atmosphere but blasted at the viewer like a battering ram. Artificial blur…

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A largely oppressive retro western with strong thriller elements telling a classic revenge story with a keen sense for atmosphere and consequence. Cinematography and score create a dense, menacing mood that carries the film throughout.

Peter Dinklage stands out [sic!] with a richly drawn character, adding weight and ambiguity to his role. Juliette Lewis brings a fearless embrace of ugliness to her performance – her portrayal of a psychopath is raw, unsettling, and all the more effective for it.…

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The best part? An unintentionally hilarious intro sequence cross-cutting war footage with construction site action. You might suspect irony. You’d be wrong. Ayer and Statham are dead serious.

What follows is a storyline clumsily cobbled together from Taken, John Wick, and a wet napkin found in a bar toilet.

Backstory: dumb. Characters: prefab. Dialogues: TikTok rejects. Statham phones it in (understandably). The rest range from community theatre to “please stop.”

The plot moves forward thanks only to a series…

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Carefully crafted cover or amalgam version of First Blood with Stallone (1982) and In the Heat of the Night with Poitier (1967). Staged with a flair for suspense, superbly photographed and well acted, with Don Johnson in particular pleasing in the role of the corrupt sheriff! However, the running time is a little drawn out, although many questions remain unanswered at the end, and the concept of de-escalation, which is good in itself, is exaggerated to the point of…