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War Path (2019)
Damn good movie
I'm not normally the type to watch indie films, especially with the varying quality that can come with it. However, I saw War Path on the advice of a friend and greatly enjoyed it!
Plot-wise, it won't change the world but it fits comfortably in the Hitman-gets-revenge genre and has a labyrinth story that mostly answers the questions it puts forth, even if it can get a bit convulated at times. The story goes in and out of time, so it keeps your interest and juts forward head first.
Acting-wise, the cast is pretty strong, anchored by Gary Nohealii as Joel, the lead. He's great in the role, holding my sympathy even when he's doing cruddy things and the rest of the cast fills their spots well.
The movie has a lot of fun action, moves briskly, and packs a lot into a brief runtime. Highly recommended!
Plot-wise, it won't change the world but it fits comfortably in the Hitman-gets-revenge genre and has a labyrinth story that mostly answers the questions it puts forth, even if it can get a bit convulated at times. The story goes in and out of time, so it keeps your interest and juts forward head first.
Acting-wise, the cast is pretty strong, anchored by Gary Nohealii as Joel, the lead. He's great in the role, holding my sympathy even when he's doing cruddy things and the rest of the cast fills their spots well.
The movie has a lot of fun action, moves briskly, and packs a lot into a brief runtime. Highly recommended!
Dope (2015)
Not Dope at all. It should've been called Mild
After hearing unending hype for Dope coming out of Sundance, I got excited to see the movie and see if it justified the high price tag and big release the movie received.
It didn't.
SPOILERS
I won't recap the plot but the movie didn't work for and not because of a culture disconnect. For the first 30 minutes, I was with the movie and there was actual tension that propelled the movie forward, enough where I thought it could be a crazy fun movie. For example: Malcolm being told to drop off the dope in the El Camino, then being warned the guy might kill him. Or Malcolm spending time with Lily and she ends up taking the dope. There was constantly new obstacles for him and could've ended up being a crazy After Hours type movie about trying to offload this drug supply, like Fix. However, the college recruiter who "coincidently" happened to be the kingpin was A) Awfully convenient for the plot and B) sucked all of the tension out of the movie. "Let's reschedule for a few weeks from now." The people chasing him are caught, there's no stakes left and the whole movie just becomes a bore.
The rest of this movie becomes one big tutorial on how to open an online store with a ham-fisted speech at the very end, one criticizing Harvard and white people for asking a question none of them were asking. This movie comes right out of the wheelhouse of "Quirky Sundance Indie" that hits it big every year, a token movie accepted to show how "progressive" they are and widely distributed to show how "with it" studios are, even if the movie is a big miss. Sundance may jizz their pants at it but the whole movie is flaccid.
Oh and that's not even getting into the fact that the movie is too long and full of annoying "quirky" characters like the wigger stoner and the Bitcoin purse maker, but I've already wasted enough time on this POS.
It didn't.
SPOILERS
I won't recap the plot but the movie didn't work for and not because of a culture disconnect. For the first 30 minutes, I was with the movie and there was actual tension that propelled the movie forward, enough where I thought it could be a crazy fun movie. For example: Malcolm being told to drop off the dope in the El Camino, then being warned the guy might kill him. Or Malcolm spending time with Lily and she ends up taking the dope. There was constantly new obstacles for him and could've ended up being a crazy After Hours type movie about trying to offload this drug supply, like Fix. However, the college recruiter who "coincidently" happened to be the kingpin was A) Awfully convenient for the plot and B) sucked all of the tension out of the movie. "Let's reschedule for a few weeks from now." The people chasing him are caught, there's no stakes left and the whole movie just becomes a bore.
The rest of this movie becomes one big tutorial on how to open an online store with a ham-fisted speech at the very end, one criticizing Harvard and white people for asking a question none of them were asking. This movie comes right out of the wheelhouse of "Quirky Sundance Indie" that hits it big every year, a token movie accepted to show how "progressive" they are and widely distributed to show how "with it" studios are, even if the movie is a big miss. Sundance may jizz their pants at it but the whole movie is flaccid.
Oh and that's not even getting into the fact that the movie is too long and full of annoying "quirky" characters like the wigger stoner and the Bitcoin purse maker, but I've already wasted enough time on this POS.