Chell Clare

Good action, but tried too hard to give a hat tip to previous movies in the franchise. Consequently, if you watched prior films, you will have seen all of the scenes before - they're just wearing a slightly different dress (stuck under raft instead of stuck under car, etc). I don't think this makes it any better or worse than other movies that followed the original. They've all used basically the same formula, so if you liked the others for the fun and action that they are and don't expect a groundbreaking revelation, you'll enjoy it. I didn't really connect with any of the characters and the story was a bit vague, but I like watching people try to get from A to B while things with teeth chase them down, even if A, B, and the things with teeth have all been seen before 😁

Think it says everything about the intelligence of modern society that there was potential to use the Greek mythology of Eros in this film for a major plot twist (and they even referenced Eros in an early scene that contained one of those things called a book), but sadly it just turns out to be two creeps jacking off to camera footage of couples in a house at the arse end of rural Italy, which leads to murder and the footage going live on the Internet. It's basically what would happen if you filmed your dad and brother watching PornHub with a merlot and a nice view. I've just given you 1 hour and 37 minutes of your life back. You're welcome.

Good game. And for once Bethesda actually managed to make a game that functions, unlike Oblivion and Skyrim that are so riddled with bugs it's an embarrassment to QA testing. In this game, I like the smart use of different attacks to gain different benefits...it almost becomes a rhythm game...very fluid and exceptionally well done. It also has an amazing soundtrack and has retained the wonders of the original weapons. The plasma gun...heavenly as always...the sound it makes takes me back to being 10 years old. Why 2 stars? This game lost 3 purely based on the amount of platforming. Original Doom was about fast, unrelenting, uninterrupted combat. That sat at its core. Having to double jump, dash, dash every 5 minutes...or having to climb, back jump, wait for timed this and timed that...it ruins the flow. Honestly, I'm not sure what the dev was thinking on this front. We want to rip and tear...if we wanted to pause to wait for the perfect timing to hit an up and down platform before executing multiple other steps to succeed, we'd play Crash Bandicoot, not Doom. If you're going to make a platforming game out of a notorious fast-paced shooter, at least nail traversal, but it fails on that front too. Lots of things I love about this game and lots of great ways they built on the original (hurling a grenade into the mouth of a cacodemon is my new favourite thing), but if you're looking for an authentic experience...be prepared for that authentic experience to be interrupted by a lot of pointless platforming that feels wildly out of place to anyone who played the original. Bethesda: if it ain't broke...don't try and fix it.

Honestly, this film has great actors and they perform brilliantly for the most part. The story is also gripping on paper. Nothing about this film is done badly with the exception of that fact they don't really provide any context at the start and there's a murder scene where the murderer and his victims 'to be' chat first as though they're deciding whether adding sausages to Heinz beans was a bad idea. In short though, despite a thrilling premise and the fact that only a few things let this film down, the producers still managed to make a really dull film. I can't explain it. It's just...dull for no specific reason and has no pace. The fact I browsed Amazon for 25 minutes and then switched my attention back to the film to find that I'd missed nothing in terms of story progression says it all. But I did get some brilliant wool on Prime delivery as a result, so I gave it an extra star for that.

Deep and honest film, but hard to 'get' the chain of events for anyone with little knowledge of, or desire to dig into, the complexities of drug addiction. Artistic and dark in many clever ways, fast-paced and solid script, but really just a relentless depiction of people at their worst, and I see enough of that in real life. Prepare to feel worse about human nature or watch a Julia Roberts film instead. One will stay with you forever in all the wrong ways. The other won't change your life, but at least you won't want to pull your own eyes out afterwards.