Red Notice (Netflix)
My son recommended this one and I had the impression it was a sort of National Treasure type adventure. It's a heist movie with some adventure elements.
An art heist film, buddy comedy, action adventure.
Ryan Reynolds (again) is a master art thief, attempting to steal from various locations "Cleopatra's Eggs" a fictional gift given to Cleopatra by Mark Antony. There are three, two in known locations, and the third location is supposedly known only to Nolan Booth, master thief.
FBI Agent John Hartley (Dwayne Johnson) pursues Booth and is soon trapped working as his partner in an effort to clear his name.
Sarah Black, (Gal Gadot) a rival master thief going by the name Bishop, appears everywhere the two go, always seeming to be several steps ahead of them.
Right behind them all at every step is Interpol Agent Urvashi Das (Ritu Arya).
An entertaining film, I wouldn't mind a sequel at all.
I thought since I am subscribed to Paramount Plus I'd look at a few of their offerings. I'll keep the subscription through the Picard episodes, then continue for a bit if I like the upcoming Strange New Worlds.
1883 (Paramount Plus)
It's a prequel Yellowstone which I haven't seen, but I used to watch westerns as a kid, and thought I'd like it. It's about a large wagon train going from Fort Worth, Texas to Oregon. The Dutton family, who are apparently featured in modern day Yellowstone, are among the settlers. There is also a large group of German settlers who are completely not prepared for a two thousand mile trek. They have a single English speaking member, and they don't have any survival skills.
Sam Elliott's character Shea Brennan has just lost his wife and daughter to pox. He burns his home to the ground with their bodies in it and leaves to run the wagon train.
There is a scene with Indians attacking a wagon train and the people trying to flee and getting killed and scalped. We have to assume the girl we see trying to shoot the Indians with an arrow through her stomach doesn't make it.
In Fort Worth, there's random gunfire, a lynching that seems spur of the moment, and it's just an exciting event for the crowds.
I didn't finish the episode as I thought it was nasty and brutal.
The Stand (2020 Version) (Paramount Plus)
This second adaptation of King's novel seemed to me to take lots of shortcuts with a novel that offered a wide ranging look at how a disaster would affect individuals and society as it swept through. I read it when it came out, and not since, but it was one of my favorites for how real and frightening everyone's journey felt.
There's no real journey here, that I can see from episode one "The End". Everyone's already in Boulder Colorado, and there's some flash backing to the beginning of the plague, but it's sort of hollow. There seems to be a focus on the character Harold Louder, a truly repulsive creature. Stu Redman, who I always felt was the main character, isn't given much character development at all, he's just sort of a pawn in the story as he appears to be immune to the plague. It's all Harold's story. Ick.
Beyond the Edge (CBS)
I watched the first episode of this new reality/survival series. Contestants are celebrities from various parts of entertainment from singers to football players.
They're out in the jungles of Panama competing with each other to make money for a variety of charities. If they win challenges, the winnings are split between the charities each person is sponsoring.
It's all emceed by sportscaster Mauro Renallo.
Uniquely, at the end of each episode the contestants have the option to go to camp and ring the bell signaling they've had enough and can't keep going. There's no vote out, it's more of an endurance match.
Everyone seems likeable so far, they're cheering each other on, competing, but respectful of each other.
No comments:
Post a Comment