An enjoyable though familiar story, Life is saved by a reasonable script, good performances and clever effects. The alien life form is pretty scary in the first half but less so later. Daniel Espinosa has directed with great competency. Just a shame about the ending.
Get Out is a wonderful movie. Full of ambiguous twists and turns, The auction dressed up as bingo was one such amazing scene. Satirical, thought provoking, scary, funny and well shot, writer and director Jordan Peele has made something intelligent and very watchable. One of those movies that stay with you a long, long time.
The highly stylised city landscape of the distant future in Ghost in the Shell would have been fine if it had not been repeated so may times. It shouted "look at the CGI on which we spent most of the budget". The rest must have been spent on Scarlet Johansson's fee. It had to be a fortune to persuade her to carry this poor action film. The gunfights said it all, totally unimaginative and again far too repetitive.
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