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STAR RATING: ***** Brilliant **** Very Good *** Okay ** Poor * Awful
A group of passengers board a luxury cruise liner, celebrating weddings, engagements and various other events, only for the ship to lose all power, and the revellers found themselves stranded in the middle of the ocean. Among the many problems the situation posed, was the toilets stopping working, leading to people having to poop into special bags, before the corridors get flooded with mess when the toilets blocked up.
This Netflix documentary, taken from the 'Trainwreck' series, certainly has a catchy title that appealed to someone who has ventured into adulthood with a facile sense of humour, maintained from youth, although it documents an event I don't have any memory of, an oddity given it attracted so much attention American news behemoth CNN got involved with reporting the story. It's an interesting story, in all ways.
It could never be accused of indulgence, running in at just under an hour, and so focusing on the nuts and bolts of the story, rather than delving too heavily into any deep human drama. Ultimately, nothing tragic or especially traumatic happened, and so the light hearted tone is in-fitting with the material. With people getting used to peeing and messing in front of each other, we even learn of a married couple getting randy with each other in front of other passengers, which could surely be excused as another bodily function that needed to be expelled??!
This is a short, succinct exploration of the worst nightmare of everyone involved, that somehow changed into an eventful, colourful experience that they were at least happy to appear in a documentary about (and presumably get paid for.) ***
A group of passengers board a luxury cruise liner, celebrating weddings, engagements and various other events, only for the ship to lose all power, and the revellers found themselves stranded in the middle of the ocean. Among the many problems the situation posed, was the toilets stopping working, leading to people having to poop into special bags, before the corridors get flooded with mess when the toilets blocked up.
This Netflix documentary, taken from the 'Trainwreck' series, certainly has a catchy title that appealed to someone who has ventured into adulthood with a facile sense of humour, maintained from youth, although it documents an event I don't have any memory of, an oddity given it attracted so much attention American news behemoth CNN got involved with reporting the story. It's an interesting story, in all ways.
It could never be accused of indulgence, running in at just under an hour, and so focusing on the nuts and bolts of the story, rather than delving too heavily into any deep human drama. Ultimately, nothing tragic or especially traumatic happened, and so the light hearted tone is in-fitting with the material. With people getting used to peeing and messing in front of each other, we even learn of a married couple getting randy with each other in front of other passengers, which could surely be excused as another bodily function that needed to be expelled??!
This is a short, succinct exploration of the worst nightmare of everyone involved, that somehow changed into an eventful, colourful experience that they were at least happy to appear in a documentary about (and presumably get paid for.) ***
STAR RATING: ***** Brilliant **** Very Good *** Okay ** Poor * Awful
A group of Federal Agents are brutally gunned down in a seemingly planned attack, including Commanding Agent King (J. K. Simmons.) Desperate to get to the bottom of the matter, his partner, Agent Medina (Cynthia Aidai-Robinson) enlists the services of Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck), a reclusive, autistic killer, but he needs help of his own, in the shape of his zany, unhinged brother, Braxton (Jon Bernthal.)
The Accountant was an action thriller from 2016, featuring the unlikely pitching of an autistic hitman. As it was, the film could best be described as forgettable, and the off-kilter story is never explored with as much gusto as it could have been. But, this sequel has now arrived, nearly ten years later, in what one could only be described as a terrible lack of ideas. And the lack of inspiration is duly felt.
Affleck returns in the lead, and delivers a distinctively flat, monotone delivery that could be taken as an offensive caricature of an autistic person, throwing up the debate about whether it should be an autistic actor playing an autistic role. Here, though, he is made to share the billing with co star Bernthal, whose appearance feels ambiguous as to whether he's there for comic relief, some forced human drama or something else. But the worst thing is an incoherent, threadbare plot that is tough to endure in a near two hour runtime.
A few amusing comical interludes aren't enough to distract from what is an artistically pointless endeavour, and one can only hope these Accountant offerings don't morph into something like Denzel Washington's Equalizer movies. **
A group of Federal Agents are brutally gunned down in a seemingly planned attack, including Commanding Agent King (J. K. Simmons.) Desperate to get to the bottom of the matter, his partner, Agent Medina (Cynthia Aidai-Robinson) enlists the services of Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck), a reclusive, autistic killer, but he needs help of his own, in the shape of his zany, unhinged brother, Braxton (Jon Bernthal.)
The Accountant was an action thriller from 2016, featuring the unlikely pitching of an autistic hitman. As it was, the film could best be described as forgettable, and the off-kilter story is never explored with as much gusto as it could have been. But, this sequel has now arrived, nearly ten years later, in what one could only be described as a terrible lack of ideas. And the lack of inspiration is duly felt.
Affleck returns in the lead, and delivers a distinctively flat, monotone delivery that could be taken as an offensive caricature of an autistic person, throwing up the debate about whether it should be an autistic actor playing an autistic role. Here, though, he is made to share the billing with co star Bernthal, whose appearance feels ambiguous as to whether he's there for comic relief, some forced human drama or something else. But the worst thing is an incoherent, threadbare plot that is tough to endure in a near two hour runtime.
A few amusing comical interludes aren't enough to distract from what is an artistically pointless endeavour, and one can only hope these Accountant offerings don't morph into something like Denzel Washington's Equalizer movies. **
STAR RATING: ***** Brilliant **** Very Good *** Okay ** Poor * Awful
In 2013, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush developed a dream to explore the underwater ruins of the Titanic, and began construction of the Titan, a giant super-submersible ship that would take him and several other people to the bottom of the ocean to achieve their dream. However, as events rolled on, snags in his plan began to emerge, and ten years after development began, the world watched during the summer of 2023, as the OceanGate saga unfolded, before the ship imploded, killing everyone abroad.
In the modern, twenty four hour news-world, the old aidage of 'yesterday's fish and chip paper' has never seemed more pertinent, with a news event that holds everyone's attention over a short period of time, before fading into oblivion, being pretty much par for the course. But the 'Ocean Gate' saga was definitely a media circus that remains in the memory two years on, and so this lengthy documentary from Netflix has a high degree of relevancy.
Given the intense focus on the story, the fate of the central characters at the bottom of the ocean, and the increasingly hopeless situation they were in, it was hard not to illicit some degree of empathy when they died, until the nature of chief initiator Stockton Rush came to light. A Princeton graduate, born from privilege, he emerged as a demanding and determined individual, we learn of how substandard material was used in the construction, inexperienced crew worked on its operation, and there was even a test run in Bermuda that failed beforehand. He displayed an egotism and ruthlessness about him that played a role in how things developed, that leaves the responsibility on his shoulders.
Even for something still so deeply rooted in the public consciousness, this is ultimately still an overlong and maybe over ambitious effort, that still gives a satisfyingly in-depth account of everything that went on. ***
In 2013, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush developed a dream to explore the underwater ruins of the Titanic, and began construction of the Titan, a giant super-submersible ship that would take him and several other people to the bottom of the ocean to achieve their dream. However, as events rolled on, snags in his plan began to emerge, and ten years after development began, the world watched during the summer of 2023, as the OceanGate saga unfolded, before the ship imploded, killing everyone abroad.
In the modern, twenty four hour news-world, the old aidage of 'yesterday's fish and chip paper' has never seemed more pertinent, with a news event that holds everyone's attention over a short period of time, before fading into oblivion, being pretty much par for the course. But the 'Ocean Gate' saga was definitely a media circus that remains in the memory two years on, and so this lengthy documentary from Netflix has a high degree of relevancy.
Given the intense focus on the story, the fate of the central characters at the bottom of the ocean, and the increasingly hopeless situation they were in, it was hard not to illicit some degree of empathy when they died, until the nature of chief initiator Stockton Rush came to light. A Princeton graduate, born from privilege, he emerged as a demanding and determined individual, we learn of how substandard material was used in the construction, inexperienced crew worked on its operation, and there was even a test run in Bermuda that failed beforehand. He displayed an egotism and ruthlessness about him that played a role in how things developed, that leaves the responsibility on his shoulders.
Even for something still so deeply rooted in the public consciousness, this is ultimately still an overlong and maybe over ambitious effort, that still gives a satisfyingly in-depth account of everything that went on. ***