Richard Walker

I saw the Lord more clearly by seeing this movie. I also learned of a new condition called CIP. The character Nathan is a banking officer who dates, befriends, & has sex with a co-worker who is soon kidnapped by bank robbers @ the bank they work @. The without a conscience robbers gun down the police who come to the scene, however Nathan stops to render aid to one, saving his life. Nathan goes vigilante to find & rescue his last friend. Unknown to Nathan, the main character of the robbers is his dates brother, whom, against all odds, she turns against. With the help of singlemindedness, (wherein I see the Lord more clearly, in the character Nathan), much fist fighting along the way, & his CIP (inability to feel pain), he tracks down his colleague. Together, they fight the lead robber (all the others are gone @ this point), & the robber turns out to be real tough cookie, defeating them both. Nathan puts on a burst of strength to overcome the last of the bad guys. His CIP reached its limits--@ the end he has a heart attack, broken bones, massive loss of blood & actually falls unconscious. The last survivor of the police involved notifies a hospitalized Nathan that he's getting 5 years of probation for his vigilantism, & his lady friend isn't so lucky--she's sentenced to do time, however their association remains. My favorite scene is the bank robbery, wherein the robbers display heartless tactics in their robbery, for some reason, beating bankers until they give them the access they need. I take two stars off because if there's a condition called CIP, I doubt it's to that extent--burns, stabbings, & so forth. This one finds it hard to suspend disbelief therein. ♎🥈🎱🕕

A good stand alone movie. By stand alone, meaning one doesn't have to be very familiar with the Lord of the Rings universe. Good characters, my favorite being the young bad guy & NOT Hera. Second favorite being the King of Rohirrin, who freezes to death in defense of what's left of his kingdom. The conflict starts with a one punch killing of a rival king by Rohirrin's king, & the subsequent throttling of dead king's son. Young man vows the King will pay for these transgressions with his life, & while he doesn't make do on his threat, he does reduce Rohirrin to a fleeing group of refugees, devoid of warriors. Young man's dark side reminds me of what I'd do in his shoes--rejecting Hera's marriage proposal in her fancy wedding gown, roughing her up in hand & sword combat (but he's defeated) & going back on his promise to spare the huddling refugees if he lost his hand & sword combat with Hera. The best scene, to me, is the "step outside, one punch" killing of the rival king & the subsequent throttling of dead king's son. The voiceovers are great. There's action, death, & loss. The animation isn't first class, but the fighting scenes are good--one swordsman deflecting arrows being my favorite, if memory serves. There are a couple of monstrosities in this movie, & real tough cookie King of Rohirrin holds his own against one. Worth seeing. ✡️🎱🔄♎

The life of a dead authentic Christian isn't too difficult a subject for a film. However, it seems the director, producer, & screenwriter made it so. The Nazi uniforms were excellent, & the brutality & negativity of the officers an appropriate turn on. Go into this movie with a "To God Be The Glory" attitude, & you should, could, & would enjoy it. I don't think it did him honor, this Christian whom I've heard so much about. The actor who played Bonheiffer was my favorite character. I think the wise will know that Dietrich was a pacifist--his human 🌑 side which some don't like to acknowledge Christians have. I believe the antiChristianity of his day might have presented him as a spy or an assassin or that might have been in his pacifist ❤️ heart, however w/o knowing the truth of yesteryear but suspecting the truth of the present, that's my conclusion. A book rendition of the movie would be interesting. Dietrich was brutalized a # of times, indication of something, someone, or someplace that caused it, in addition to what the scene portrayed. My two favorite scenes, however, were the scene of trying to rent the hotel room, in which the U.S. citizen clocks him with the rifle butt. The other scene is when he's in a line up & if memory serves, keeps walking towards the Nazi officer, doesn't raise his hands, & says something about I'm praying 4 U, & gets clocked again. My favorite in that the creators of the movie are informing me & persuading me of something, & that something is mentioned in earlier parts of this review--what or who might have caused the Nazi officer to snap @ the untimely witnessing attempt. Also, when guns are out, shut the hell on Earth & otherwise up & obey. Worth seeing--a "To God Be The Glory" attitude, an appreciation for the time & sweat the screenwriter, director, producer & actors put into this to remind us of a Christian martyr of the past, of a nationality that gets a bum rap sometimes, in exclusion of looking in our own nationalistic & patriotic mirrors. 💯🎱✡️♎

Interesting info on papal succession methodology. No real bad guys, unless counting the Islamic terrorists who car bomb Vatican City. There's a member who gets heated about Muslims being intolerant, how Islam judges them but Holy See is so tolerant of Islam. The persuasion here is that there are g-normous rifts between Islam & Catholicism, @ least in this story but a viewer need not necessarily believe that. The main character is a judgmentalist, & a couple of times in the movie he's judging. Other member actors are judgmentalist, toward each other's attitudes or behavior. The pope voted in turns out to have both male & female genitalia, & the main character is on the edge of his seat to judge him, however the official vote prevails--he has both genitalia, the implications are that he was born with them, & there's really nothing he can do, without undergoing expensive surgery to have something removed, & clergy typically don't make a whole lot. The character judges himself, questioning his own fitness for pope though @ least one other has confidence in him, the hermaphrodite who's voted in. The voted in isn't a native of Europa--he seems Latin American in origin. Again, the story is informative--what procedurally goes on in the selection of a pope "behind closed 🚪 doors" & also persuasive--that the Catholic Church, in this movie, perhaps has a crisis of confidence in popes born & raised in Europe & that opinion among some that a pope of non European origin would mean a hill of Mexican jumping beans, as far as the church's direction is concerned. It's somewhat real, then, & that's agreeable. I had to watch this twice because the first time around, enmity kept inducing 💤 sleep in the theater, all over me like brown on rice, annoying, bothersome, & harassing--striking @ every angle. The second time around I was blessed to see most of the movie. If it comes out in a streaming service, it's worth seeing again.

This is a movie about Apex Predators called reapers who turn out to be machines & not organics, who have wiped out 95 percent of Earth's population.The humans have predatory intent on going out to confront the reapers. All the humans have to do is stay above 8, 000 feet & the APs are unable or unwilling to prey on them. The band of 3 indicate it's a suicide mission, however I don't see what's @ stake that the humans would feel the need to die over. Not everybody can stay above 8,000 feet, either in ability (the mountainous altitude isn't there), or supply chain challenges (implied, but not--the trio have there neccessities). The scene wherein the lead male actor fires a bullet into some propane tanks, they explode, & the blast sends one of the APs clear out the window & to it's near death, is my favorite, despite the mystery of how the AP took the stairs, as big as it is & not being bi-pedal. The main male lead is my favorite character, not because he's all that, as a character, but because his two partners in the trio are NOT all that, & he's an AList actor. There's a lack of believability, as in how real people sometimes act, as to what or who's @ stake, & that the human race has been, is, & will be increasingly survival minded & logical, two stars off. Suicide usually implies strapping bombs to one's body, however this is ecocide, under a different definition, key word eco. Some survival minded humans would remain above 8,000 feet & find a way to supply themselves--humans are both genius & ingenious. If a suicide mission ,why does the trio run upon sight of the reapers? Never seen one? Change of heart @ the last minute? Why aren't the characters made to take them on with inferior weapons & get slaughtered already? The ending with mysterious explosions here & there (as to what or who exploded), is a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, inside a puzzlebox. Magic bullets? While a mystery is loved in a story by some, not all do. This mystery wasn't acceptable.