Film Fight 2022: March

#FF22 Wrath Of Man transplants Guy Ritchie's Cockney Gangster schtick to US security trucks, to disastrous effect.

The dialogue is painful: bizarre phrasing and weird delivery. The plot itself is... fine, but it feels very slow and the action sequences mostly fall flat.

Avoid.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 5, 2022

#FF22 Kimi is a perfect evening watch.

It's part techno-thriller, part Hitcockian-noir. Well-paced, with a paranoid undertone. Zoe Kravitz is excellent as the lead, and Soderbergh does his usual magic behind the camera.

Easy, fun, great.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 18, 2022

#FF22 The Batman is a solid entry in the canon.

Set during Year 2, Pattinson plays a scrappier, but accomplished, Batman well. The supporting cast are all good, too.

It is, however, far too dark, and about an hour too long. Lots of extraneous stuff packed in.

Worth seeing.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 18, 2022

#FF22 The Adam Project is mindless, big budget action with a bit of sci-fi.

Ryan Reynolds plays the same character he always does, so if you like that generally, you’ll like this.

Silly plot, fun action, easy going.

Totally fine.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) March 19, 2022

#FF22 After Yang is a slow but delicate film about loss, memory, and family.

Set in a not far-off future, we see a distant father reconnect with this family through the death of a family android.

Quiet, subtle, beautiful.

Worth seeing.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) April 2, 2022

#FF22 Windfall is low budget, Netflix fodder, as a man inadvertently kidnaps a billionaire and his wife.

The cast is solid enough, but the plot is stretched a little too thin, especially over the first half. Small, simple, short. Easy enough.

Fine.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) April 2, 2022

#FF22 Death On The Nile is teatime drama as blockbuster.

A huge cast of terrible accents, going through the old story again. It's perfectly fine at what it is, but you've seen this exact thing many times. The wide shots look terribly fake, but otherwise a pretty film.

Meh.

— Gary Fleming (@garyfleming) April 2, 2022