28 Weeks Later (2007) Review
28 Weeks Later (2007) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The opening twelve minutes are as good as anything in the genre and the film never reaches them again. Robert Carlyle abandons his wife to save himself…
Idris Elba played Stringer Bell in The Wire with an American accent so complete that a large portion of the audience did not know he was English until interviews revealed it.
He then moved between British television in Luther, Marvel as Heimdall, Pacific Rim, Beasts of No Nation and Mandela, which is an unusually wide spread.
Beasts of No Nation is the serious performance, playing a warlord recruiting child soldiers, and it is genuinely frightening.
He is also a DJ and musician, has raced professionally, and was repeatedly discussed as a potential James Bond over a decade in which the question became somewhat exhausting.
Catherine McCormack28 Weeks Later (2007) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The opening twelve minutes are as good as anything in the genre and the film never reaches them again. Robert Carlyle abandons his wife to save himself…
Abbey LeeThe Dark Tower (2017) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Eight novels written across thirty-four years were compressed into ninety-five minutes, which is the shortest running time any studio fantasy has attempted this century. Idris Elba and…
Anthony HopkinsThe MCU mythological foundation. The 8 reflects honest evaluation of the film that gave the MCU its mythological foundation and the entry that Kenneth Branagh directed with sustained Shakespearean theatrical attention.
Anthony HopkinsChristopher Eccleston wasted as Malekith. The first MCU film that feels like industrial franchise routine.
Aaron Taylor-JohnsonJames Spader's exceptional voice performance carrying an uneven ensemble film. The Vision's introduction and Sokovia's destruction.
Anthony HopkinsTaika Waititi's tonal pivot that broke the Thor character and signaled the MCU's slide into decorative comedy. The 6 reflects honest evaluation of a film that is funny in its individual moments but represents a structural betrayal of the Thor…
Charlize TheronPrometheus wastes one of the most visually gifted directors in contemporary cinema on a script that requires its characters to be catastrophically stupid. These are supposedly the best scientists humanity could assemble for a trillion-dollar mission to find humanity's creators.
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