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Wednesday, 28 April 2021

Johnny English Reborn (2011)

My attention strayed and then irritation set in as this British spy spoof, the second in a series of three Johnny English movies but the first I've tried to watch, went on and on and on in such cookie-cutter fashion that it doesn't really ask to be watched at all - a glance at the poster tells you everything you already knew about the James Bond-style opening sequence, the ho-hum scene at the hi-tech spy tools development facility, the repetitive car and boat chases, and the unpsychedelic Austin Powers, a rubbery-faced Pink Panther, at the centre of all the, er, action.

★★☆☆☆

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Thursday, 10 December 2015

The Fall (Season 1)

A collection of Irish actors and Gillian Armstrong slow their movements and speech to glacial pace in order to drag out to eleven episodes a dreary serial killer story optimistically described in tv guides as "a psychological thriller".

★★☆☆☆

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