Kinda hated Blunt’s performance, but think I might blame Spielberg for that, as everything else seems to pitch up to that histrionic level. Enjoy Koepp when he’s being procedural, hate him when he’s trying to be human - last years Black Bag is basically the former contending with the latter which is what made it mostly good, and why Presence sucked in spite of its formal brilliance.
Absolutely hated the news-anchor getting teary eyed over the mishandling of a dead extra-terrestrial from 50…

“A witch and an ogre”. Had assumed whilst watching that this was a mid-2000s film and was in the midst of the ‘trans people are weird huh’ (in the ignorant sense, as opposed to the current more directly miserable insidious wave) era, but whilst that would’ve still been awful, it’s truly unforgivable realising afterwards that this was released in 2018??? It’s regressive politics aside, the whole thing is a true outdated Korn music-video of a film and proof that Martyrs was…

The freeze-frame, crash zoom to character name (plus a “hilarious” caption about the character) was beyond parody over a decade ago - and that’s the least of the films problems.

I feel rough shitting on an independent British production but I sincerely believe it’s Lad-Mag Guy Ritchie knock-offs like this that give British independent cinema a bad name. Technical competency is not the films issue - it’s shot adequately, even well (but frequently completely inappropriately, from the ‘make your footage…