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Men of Honor - (2000)
Yesterday I was looking for a movie that would probably need a minimum amount of concentration to follow - and this film fit the bill. Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jnr.) fights prejudice, and brutal loud-mouthed instructor Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro) to become a US Navy Master Diver in an era of de-segregation - it's really polished and has great lead performances, but takes very few risks and plays out exactly how you'd expect it to. For an added extra hurdle for him to overcome, Brashear injures his leg at one stage and has it amputated so he can continue diving. When this was released, it trailed Little Nicky and Charlie's Angels at the box office, but probably came in ahead of some really interesting films that were a little different. The box office does nothing to sort films from best quality to worst. Anyway, this was okay - nothing special, but I couldn't call it bad.
George Tillman Jr. directed 2018 film
The Hate U Give - I remember enjoying that.
6/10
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The Gray Man - (2022)
Thank you MoFo for lowering my expectations to the point where
The Gray Man, unexceptional as it is, passed a couple of hours without me feeling bored or unhappy. It adds absolutely nothing to it's genre, and is cluttering up the landscape, making it harder for much better films to get exposure, but things went boom and our hero, Six (Ryan Gosling) is stabbed, pounded and treated to concussions that would kill an average elephant. Anyway, Chris Evans is having fun! (even if nobody else is.) Billy Bob Thornton is much appreciated. This does everything modern action films do - and slightly not as well as most of them. I didn't end up hating it - at times I thought it might be okay - but in the end it just scraped a pass mark and I can't imagine any scenario that would have me watching it again.
5/10