Spot Reviews 03/29/24
Mar 29 2024
Sisu (2022) [+] Sisu is an over-the-top Finnish action film set during the Lapland War (when Finland declared war on Germany and the German northern troops had to retreat to Norway). A platoon of fleeing Germans encounter a Finnish prospector with some gold. Trying to kill him sets off an orgy of destruction because Aatami Korpi (Jorma Tommila), a war hero during the Winter War versus the USSR. Korpi is relentless and first flees from the Germans then goes to hunt them down. This film reminds me of Tarantino films with creative and graphic deaths. Not a classic but above average.
The Accountant (2016) [/] I rewatched this Ben Affleck film where he plays an autistic accountant for criminals who also happens to be an expert hand-to-hand combatant and shooter. When his current client decides to off him because he knows too much the accountant gets away but has to return and kill everyone in order to protect Dana (Anna Kendrick), a kind woman at the company who was helping him out and is also a witness that they want to silence… Ok action film. Interesting character. A little bit of a weird final fight. Interesting enough that I watched it in two sittings and yet not necessarily a movie I’d recommend.
Pizza My Heart - Vegan Big Sur [+] Went to dinner with my brother on Friday during Lent so he couldn’t eat meat so we shared this. It looks like a normal pizza with pepperoni and sausage. The meat tastes pretty close to meat and the cheese is pretty close to cheese and there are other ingredients so together it’s pretty tasty and I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference without actual comparison to a meat pizza. I’d be quite fine eating this again.
Flipflop Solitaire+ (2021) [/] A solitaire game from Zach Gage who has several polished Apple Arcade games. The base game is that you have five columns of cards, the bottom revealed and you're trying to get them into the top four spots. You can move cards between the columns but the destination and connecting card have to be in sequence. I've played similar games before. This one you can select from one to five suits (more suits is harder) and every game is solvable. Not really my sort of game though.
The Accountant (2016) [/] I rewatched this Ben Affleck film where he plays an autistic accountant for criminals who also happens to be an expert hand-to-hand combatant and shooter. When his current client decides to off him because he knows too much the accountant gets away but has to return and kill everyone in order to protect Dana (Anna Kendrick), a kind woman at the company who was helping him out and is also a witness that they want to silence… Ok action film. Interesting character. A little bit of a weird final fight. Interesting enough that I watched it in two sittings and yet not necessarily a movie I’d recommend.
Pizza My Heart - Vegan Big Sur [+] Went to dinner with my brother on Friday during Lent so he couldn’t eat meat so we shared this. It looks like a normal pizza with pepperoni and sausage. The meat tastes pretty close to meat and the cheese is pretty close to cheese and there are other ingredients so together it’s pretty tasty and I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference without actual comparison to a meat pizza. I’d be quite fine eating this again.
Flipflop Solitaire+ (2021) [/] A solitaire game from Zach Gage who has several polished Apple Arcade games. The base game is that you have five columns of cards, the bottom revealed and you're trying to get them into the top four spots. You can move cards between the columns but the destination and connecting card have to be in sequence. I've played similar games before. This one you can select from one to five suits (more suits is harder) and every game is solvable. Not really my sort of game though.