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jonathanskarda
Reviews
The Crow (1994)
A dark superhero movie
This movie provides an interesting take on supernatural powers intervening to bring about justice.
The plot is mostly formulaic, but the presentation still manages to make it interesting. The dialogue is usually okay, but is distractingly melodramatic or awkward at times.
It isn't a movie that I would recommend to most of my friends. The message conveyed is partly good, but some points aren't what I consider to be good. That said, it was worth a watch. I don't feel like I wasted my time, but I have no desire to watch it again, nor do I plan to watch the sequels. It's definitely not on the same class as the Dark Knight trilogy.
The Good Nurse (2022)
A 10/10 that loses 3 points because of a poorly hidden agenda
A major message if this film is that many hospital administrators care more about money than about people, even if it means breaking the law. If that is true of the hospital administrators depicted in this movie, then this movie does a despicably poor job of portraying that. It makes no effort to explore the reasons why admins would be pressured to compromise patient care.
I could believe that hospital administrators sometimes exercise poor judgement when faced with impossible moral dilemmas. Instead they are depicted as pure evil. Frankly, that's hard to believe, especially when that accusation is being simultaneously leveled against 10+ independent hospitals.
It is also implied that law enforcement in the jurisdictions of each hospital ignored evidence of criminal wrongdoing and that more people should have been prosecuted.
This movie is superbly acted. It is well done in many other ways. However, it is undermined by an inability to fairly consider the merits of the other side of the argument. Consequently, the film destroys the credibility of its primary message.