FortySecondStreetFreak

Godawful nonsense that seems stuck 5yrs ago!

Preaching about PROVEN frauds BLM??

Defund the Police plots?

George 'Robs pregnant women' Floyd namechecks?

Only 2 White characters in the cast (1 a stupid chief, 1 the killer). Pandering Black & Asian hanging out (anti-Asian violence perpetrators % proves this demographic love-in false).

Constant race speeches.

Filmed like it's in Victorian London with all lights (even in a police station) giving the glow of a candle! How any one of them can even read a report in this gloom is a mystery.

There's NOTHING here to do with 'Cross'. Films or books Bin it!

"SCALA"...Doc on the legendary much missed London repertory/cult Cinema is fun, lively, heartfelt, nostalgic & packed with entertaining tales & reminiscences (& cool movie clips). Good interviews too (thank God for the blu-ray extra ones). Essential for Cult movie fans, esp ex-Scala punters like myself. Main criticism is the short shrift given to the Events. Especially as the last thing hosted there before it closed (last day "King Kong" showing aside) was the fabulous 'Full Contact with a Killer' Chow-Yun-Fat festival (with the lovely man himself as guest of honour), a GREAT moment in my life, but it gets no mention.

Nor do they mention the 'Film Extremes' festivals that were personally my main time spent there.

In fact an afternoon screening of "Cafe Flesh" was my only (I think) visit to 'The Scala' that wasn't an Event/Festival.

A sad lack of live footage of the mural covered Cafe/Dealer room too, another solid memory of my time there.

It also calls "A Clockwork Orange" banned & hints that's why they got into trouble for showing a 'pirate' print. But it wasn't 'banned', Kubrick withdrew it from distribution in Britain himself after much hassle over its supposed effect on crime. But Kubrick didn't do anything to help The Scala himself over this costly trial & should've got a bit of criticism here, but there's nothing (not a surprise really).

And of course, it just too short to cover such a long period of time at such a fascinating place. But, in general, it's very good, lots of fun (with genuinely emotional moments) & a real gift for fans. Great memories from a great time.

Get that blu-ray!

At least this once fine franchise now has a (meh) ending. Tired, stupid, annoying. Only 1 great gunfight (a GLORIOUS top down, exploding shotgun shells, massacre) & 1 good hand-to-hand fight (with an unrecognisable #ScottAdkins), the rest of the action's dull, repetitive, silliness. #KeanuReeves (effective in the other 3 films) here gives a truly appalling performance. He sounds like his batteries are running out, every....word....is....emotionless. His opening scene might THE worst acting seen in cinema history...& he only says "Yeah"!

. Where once Wick dodged damage by using his skills to not get hit (& we could genuinely see how he avoided it), now he just brushes off 'Superman' level damage (it's so ridiculous it gets genuinely annoying...from plummeting off buildings, to getting hit by multiple speeding cars, to smashing down 100's of stone steps) that makes EVERY fight pointless (who cares if he gets punched, when bone crushing falls literally do no damage)? Assassins suddenly either don't bother to shoot or punch him when they have a chance, or simply can't hit him even if when he's standing still! But who cares anyway right, when he's now seemingly made of Adamantium!?

. And why tediously rehash "Rogue One" by making #DonnieYen blind again? Worse, it just adds to the annoying stupidity. That a blind swordsman could hear his enemy move, or feel the air moving when a sword strikes, makes (a fantastical) sense. But how does a blind man dodge getting shot by multiple gunmen standing 20-30 feet away? Can he 'hear' the direction a gun is pointing? What utter nonsense. In fact he's so not effected by being blind...why make him blind?!

. There's also a sorry lack of links to the other 3 films. You could watch this & fully understand most of it. Bar Fishburne, Reddick & McShane no characters return & even the shocking betrayal by #IanMcShane in "3" (including shooting Wick off a building) is completely ignored by the plot AND Wick! He's just back to being a friend & ally again as if nothing happened. Hell, even the damn dog gets ignored!

. The fact is if "3" had a better final 3rd with a satisfying ending we would've had a truly great action franchise trilogy. As it is the entire bloated finale & garbage non-ending of "3" seemed to doom the franchise UNLESS a (money-grabbing) "4" could perform a miracle...But as we know, miracles rarely happen.

Best just stick with "1" then now.