I really pushed the boat out on yesterday's misery binge..
All clicked blind without the usual tireless IMDB research to check the titles are worthy of my time, thanks to my immediate need for distraction.
1.
The Beast - Italian Netflix effort following the usual "kid of a dysfunctional ex-state-sponsored-killing-machine gets kidnapped" trope. Typical fighty-action flick that passed the time, nowt special, no big twist at the end. Bit meh.
2.
Mosul - "Based on true events" about a group of ex-Iraqi police hunting down the remaining members of ISIS / Daesh in the city during the group's retreat / defeat. A brutal and sobering contrast to the sanitised hollywood violence / happy endings all-round format of the one above, well worth a watch IMO.
3.
Kill Me Three Times - Australian "black comedy" / "film noir" with Simon Pegg. Reasonably entertaining if not great.. I loved Pegg in Spaced but this seems to be yet another example to back up the suggestion that he's never made a decent film.
4.
Jack Reacher - Tom Cruise once again typecast as a smug intuitive twat with a fighty background sorting the world out. Reasonably engaging / entertaining; Cruise adds little IMO, unlike the perpetually appealing Rosamund Pike.
Hoping to have a little tidy today to make myself feel better than will see what else I can find to escape from life again later..
