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Gyeongseong Keuricheo (2023)
Started out with great promise..and then..
The idea of this show was great occupied Korea at the end of WW2 as Japan struggle to find a way to win even as their cities are bombed back in Japan...the harsh abuses felt by the Korean people were plain to see..the forced conscription into the Japanese Imperial army for all sorts of offences and the general abuse of power which has long been a common theme of shows and Japan in WW2.
All was going great characters were being developed and you were starting to feel for their positions in life
...that was until the show moved into the hospital and it became a myriad of frustrating decisions mixed with laughably incompetent military and only a solitary Korean conscript was developed in any meaningful wayonce the monster was free I was cheering it on as it mowed through everyone but the main Characters even though they stood blankly in front of it to watch it kill someone just incase it decided that was enough killing and It's time to go home...
the monster had the broadest emotional range of all the characters from white hot rage to sorrow for its condition, self sacrifice and love for its daughter...an emotional roller coaster....
the other characters bumbled along a predictable trajectory leaving you hoping that the monster would swoop in and give you the soul uplifting joy you are looking for by ending all the stupidity...
but the leads are all immune to any real damage with one running around with a gaping katana wound for episodes...
I wanted to love it but the holes in plot, the hopeless writing for the love story element left me frustrated it appears to be trying to do far too much and missing the mark on everything...
watch it if you love the leads regardless of the script, watch it if you are so tragic a k-drama fan you can't imagine not loving it...
but there are far better Korean shows out there both for historical drama, horror, love stories...
this one it trying to be all things for all people and ends up being a frustrating mess.
Age of Tanks (2017)
Ok but a number of errors
Episode 1 has a classic error..."In January 1919 Germany's tank constructor..." not much point calling in your tank constructor in 1919 to talk about tanks for you 1918 offensive...sloppy writing and a somewhat biased point of view spoil what it could have been..It did touch on some of the early origins of tanks from Austrian designers that got no support in Austria or Germany before becoming completely French and a just a little British focused the amount of French focus shows the target Audience is patriotic French dreaming of past days of imperial glory but hey who ever fund's the documentary should be able to say what they like about how patriotic French businesses were like Renault and how for the glory of France they only made profits off the US with their tank designs. .
Extraction (2020)
Lucky you don't need a plot in an action movie
The action was great the plot not so much.. interaction between some of the characters was wooden almost like they were freaking out about being in a movie with Thor
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Godzilla was awesome..the humans not so much
All 6 stars are for the monsters.. the movie probably would have been better without the family drama, eco-terrorists angle...top secret bases on high alert probably should have been more secure...missiles that destroy all oxygen in a 2km radius probably should have destroyed water and clouds too..the whole government wants to shut down monarch thing was a complete waste of time as it was largely ignored...so delete the humans and watch it for the monsters..don't think about the plot holes or that nothing that any of the humans did ultimately matters..
Black Summer (2019)
I was cheering for the zombies
There is something very wrong with a show when the zombies are the smartest members of the show...sure opening doors was beyond their abilities but closing doors seemed beyond the ability of most of the humans...swinging axes was too..in fact while watching this I was left wondering if the zombies were the next evolutionary leep.