Kevin C. Wong

Spot Reviews 07/30/21

Documentary - Who Are You Charlie Brown? (2021) [/] An Apple TV+ documentary/biography on Charles Schultz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip. I was never much of a Peanuts reader so this documentary was ok but not especially interesting.

Netflix Movie - Cosmic Sin (2021) [-] In the year 2524 mankind finally makes first contact and it doesn't go well. General Ryle (Frank Grillo) recruits disgraced general (and some say mass murderer) James Ford (Bruce Willis) and then he takes a squad of drop troopers to the first contact site bringing along a Q-Bomb... This is an 85-minute movie that really needs another 10 or 15 minutes to explain things more because the plot kind of stop making sense and the dramatic payoffs at the end have no weight to them because I didn't develop any feelings for any of the characters. Special effects are good, Bruce Willis kind of phones it in, writing budget must have been short and the editor must have been paid by the cut. Overall a fairly awful movie.

Movie - Greenland (2020) [-] When a Texas-sized asteroid threatens to wipe out all life on Earth John Garrity (Gerard Butler) is determined to get his wife (Morena Baccarin) and son to Greenland where there is a secret end-of-the-world government bunker where a select group of people are being evacuated to. It's not that good a movie, mostly a what-would-people-do-to-survive which boils down to lots of sad scenarios, but weirdly the sequel (in development) might be more interesting as it is set a few years later once the survivors come out to rebuild the world.