Pokemon Detective Pikachu
Directed by : Rob Letterman
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5884052/
I push people away and then hate them for leaving..
Hearing news of his dad's car crash, Tim Goodman (Justice Smith) returns back to his hometown Rhyme City where humans and pokemon's live together. Tim meets a talking pokemon, Pikachu (Ryan Reynolds voiceover) who wants to be a detective and help him find his father. In roughly 15-20 mins, Pikachu's character gets in the narrative and from thereon the film is carried through his shoulder with very witty and fun one liners or his reactions to the situations been thrown as they try to dive further into the mystery surrounding Tim's father. But I can't say same about the rest characters or the story that is quite weak and the predictable as you can easily make out who the villain is. Its the various Pokemon's intereactions that you enjoy, be it pikachu or the pokemon of Lucy Stevens (Kathryn Newton) or the one who talks through guess what I am saying game. Lucy and Tim sub-plot is very cliched, and their adventure leading to answers isn't satisfactory. Pokemon Detective Pikachu turned out to be quite underwhelming, but having said that Ryan Reynolds makes sure I atleast had a good time. Definately expected better movie from what the trailers had suggested.
My Rating : 6/10
Gerald's Game
Directed by : Mike Flanagan
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3748172/
Everybody's got a littler corner in there somewhere, a button they won't admit they want pressed. Year after year, I barely gave you a glimpse of mine.
A couple Gerald (Bruce Greenwood) and Jessie (Carla Gugino) decide to go to a remote lakehouse trying to get their marriage back on track, but a tragedy happens when Gerald has a heart-attack and dies with Jessie handcuffed on bed. With no neighbours or people around, Jessie must find a way to survive and get help or let herself free of the cuffs. I liked the starting of movie, director doesn't waste time coming to the main part of story, as Jesse is all alone tied to bed, door open with a stray dog eating her dead husband and a scary 'Moonlight' figure appearing at night suggesting Jessie won't survive long with the hallucinations she was having. Her imaginary conversations with herself, her husband, and flashbacks of her father that involves child abuse makes for a interesting watch. But after a while it gets tiring, I would have liked to see some more struggle or attempts made by her to free herself, the isolation situation should had been explored more and also the scare element was less as the diversion to past with husband or father during childhood affects the screenplay. Oh but when at end she does free herself through wrist cut, that was one hell of a hard scene to watch, made me pause movie for few minutes before I could start watching rest movie again. My other biggest complain was, why did they try to give closure to 'Moonlight' story, had they ended say 10-15 mins earlier and left it to audience to guess whether he was real or unreal, it would had made the film look lot good. Carla Gugino shines in her performance, specially when she is talking to herself, also enjoyed Bruce in those conversations where he tells about human desires. An adaptation of Stephen King novel, Gerald's Game makes for a good one time watch despite the mentioned flaws.
My Rating : 5.5/10
Directed by : Rob Letterman
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5884052/
I push people away and then hate them for leaving..
Hearing news of his dad's car crash, Tim Goodman (Justice Smith) returns back to his hometown Rhyme City where humans and pokemon's live together. Tim meets a talking pokemon, Pikachu (Ryan Reynolds voiceover) who wants to be a detective and help him find his father. In roughly 15-20 mins, Pikachu's character gets in the narrative and from thereon the film is carried through his shoulder with very witty and fun one liners or his reactions to the situations been thrown as they try to dive further into the mystery surrounding Tim's father. But I can't say same about the rest characters or the story that is quite weak and the predictable as you can easily make out who the villain is. Its the various Pokemon's intereactions that you enjoy, be it pikachu or the pokemon of Lucy Stevens (Kathryn Newton) or the one who talks through guess what I am saying game. Lucy and Tim sub-plot is very cliched, and their adventure leading to answers isn't satisfactory. Pokemon Detective Pikachu turned out to be quite underwhelming, but having said that Ryan Reynolds makes sure I atleast had a good time. Definately expected better movie from what the trailers had suggested.
My Rating : 6/10
Gerald's Game
Directed by : Mike Flanagan
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3748172/
Everybody's got a littler corner in there somewhere, a button they won't admit they want pressed. Year after year, I barely gave you a glimpse of mine.
A couple Gerald (Bruce Greenwood) and Jessie (Carla Gugino) decide to go to a remote lakehouse trying to get their marriage back on track, but a tragedy happens when Gerald has a heart-attack and dies with Jessie handcuffed on bed. With no neighbours or people around, Jessie must find a way to survive and get help or let herself free of the cuffs. I liked the starting of movie, director doesn't waste time coming to the main part of story, as Jesse is all alone tied to bed, door open with a stray dog eating her dead husband and a scary 'Moonlight' figure appearing at night suggesting Jessie won't survive long with the hallucinations she was having. Her imaginary conversations with herself, her husband, and flashbacks of her father that involves child abuse makes for a interesting watch. But after a while it gets tiring, I would have liked to see some more struggle or attempts made by her to free herself, the isolation situation should had been explored more and also the scare element was less as the diversion to past with husband or father during childhood affects the screenplay. Oh but when at end she does free herself through wrist cut, that was one hell of a hard scene to watch, made me pause movie for few minutes before I could start watching rest movie again. My other biggest complain was, why did they try to give closure to 'Moonlight' story, had they ended say 10-15 mins earlier and left it to audience to guess whether he was real or unreal, it would had made the film look lot good. Carla Gugino shines in her performance, specially when she is talking to herself, also enjoyed Bruce in those conversations where he tells about human desires. An adaptation of Stephen King novel, Gerald's Game makes for a good one time watch despite the mentioned flaws.
My Rating : 5.5/10
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