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Honest Thief (2020)
Poor script, bad movie
With Corona, times are hard for movie lovers, especially those who like to visit the cinemas. With honest thief on the playlist I thought to get to see a movie that easily would be better than the average garbage cinemas have to offer in the last few months.
What a turn-off was honest thief. The script was awful, I have noticed so many plot holes and unlikely situations that the writers probably think that viewers don't care for a solid script. The movies that last have something special and give you a reason to overthink the movie afterwards. Not honest thief....
Liam Neeson is always solid and has made quite a few very good movies. This isn't one of them. Agent Niven wants to kill his girlfriend in the hospital but his boss is sitting at her bed? Right.... they didn't see or hear each other? Our honest thief is probably the most wanted man in the city after the murder of an FBI agent. But he can easily drive, phone and walk throughout town. And when there is a car chase or narrow situation he easily escapes and stays in a motel whit out a problem. When he escapes in the beginning he and his girlfriend hide in a car in a parking garage. Of all places in the big city the cops decide to look there, right.... after his house is blown up, agent Niven returns there a little bit later. Just some windows are being blown out but there is no fire damage. That is actually possible because the cgi used in the scene when th house is being blown up is so bad, we just had to laugh.
And the end....... dead cops, car chases through the city, a house blown up and more......, but no further investigation. Liam can life happily ever after with his girlfriend. She is obviously a strong woman. First she was pronounced dead by the agent, then she was alive but needed emergency treatment in the hospital, then she could easily be taken from the hospital and live saving monitory. And within hours she was was fine, up and running!
Go see it, but turn your brain off......
Rundfunk: Jachterwachter (2020)
Not like in theatre
A movie is not the same as the theatre. This movie misses any kind of humor, a story line or something that looks like a storyline and actors that can act. I cannot understand that really nobody involved in making this movie thought "maybe we should just not do this". Better invest the funds of Dutch cinema in something else....... for Rundfunk; stick to theatre but stay away from cinema.