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Technically, there's nothing glaringly wrong with Oh, Hi. The performances, pacing, and visual style are competent enough. But the film's core premise is not only absurd - it's deeply unsettling. A woman ties a man to a bed after a romantic weekend goes sideways, then refuses to untie him when she realizes they're not actually a couple. From there, it devolves into dark territory masked as quirky comedy. The writing relies on nonsense logic to keep the guy tied up (seriously, the comb thing?), and the film expects you to laugh at what amounts to non-consensual imprisonment. If the roles were reversed, this wouldn't even get greenlit, let alone marketed as funny. The fact that the audience was laughing at his situation made it even harder to sit through. By the time the movie ends with a cutesy "heart-to-heart" and no accountability, I was just done. Hard pass. Livestream discussion/review is available on my channel and a full video review will be available shortly as well.

1.5/5 STARS - Karate Kid: Legends was lifeless, soulless, and felt like something written by an AI. The storyline was pretty much a repeat of the original Karate Kid, and while the attempt to meld together the "karate" style from the first one with the style from the 2010 movie introduced by Jackie Chan's character was interesting, as a whole this film falls flat. Hard. The main actor wasn't charismatic enough to carry the film as the lead and the storylines were predictable and lame. Some of the acting was okay (Joshua Jackson), but some of it simply was not (the ex-boyfriend "bully" character). There were multiple times I rolled my eyes at how shoehorned in some plot points were that came across as more cringe and annoying than anything else. I'm not sure why they decided to go with a story like this instead of just giving us a Cobra Kai movie. This was one huge miss - and it didn't have to be that way. Video review will be available on my YouTube channel.