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Movie Review: Together

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The standout issue with the new horror movie “Together” is that its premise and special effects represent a brand-new idea that has never been done before in a film.

A married couple, Tim and Millie, played by real-life couple Dave Franco and Allison Brie, move to the country and on a hiking trip find themselves infected by supernatural water, which tries to physically connect them together.

The remainder of this movie is about conflicts in Tim and Millie’s relationship and horrific scenes where the two of them are like magnets trying to pull themselves apart from each other. There is a side story where another teacher in the school where Millie teaches is familiar with this water and videos are seen of ceremonies where this teacher is trying to bond with his partner, who it seems, passed away some time ago. For this part of the story, not enough is explained, suggesting that perhaps these people are aliens who might have infected the area with this body-bonding water. In the end, we never find out the origin of this supernatural water.

There are the typical gross-out scenes that are common with physical horror movies like this one; most are well done, especially when they show the combining of body parts. The ending was no surprise, and overall, I give this movie a very mild recommendation only because of some of the originality.

The Rotten Tomatoes rating of 94% is way too high, with my rating around 75% and small thumbs up.

Movie Review: M3GAN 2.0

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The original “M3GAN” released in 2022, received a very high 93% on Rotten Tomatoes due to its imaginative new ideas about AI. The new sequel M3GAN 2.0 ratings are only 57%, which most likely ends this franchise at two movies. The reason is the same: nobody thought writing a great script was important enough, because they had fans of the previous movie, and the same idea of throwing special effects to fix a film that once again did not work.

This script, which initially started off well, quickly devolves into a chaotic and nonsensical story. This time, there is a new robot, identified as M3GAN, that appears much more human and is significantly more violent than its predecessor. This robot utilizes much of the stolen technology from the original model and is now being deployed as an assassin to eliminate political enemies. Allison Williams returns as the lead scientist, Gemma, with Violet McGraw portraying Gemma’s niece, Cady. This screenplay is another example of a disconnected makes no sense story resulting from three screenwriters writing one script. How do three screenwriters write one script? If they work separately, like they probably did for this story, the end result is once again a movie that is disjointed and makes no sense.

Most of the last third of this mostly bad movie is all about Karate action scenes and extreme violence that lead to a ridiculous climax that, once again, mostly makes no sense.

Too many promising movie franchises like this one fail for all of these same reasons. I agree with the low ratings on Rotten Tomatoes of 57% and do not recommend this film.

Movie Review: Final Destination: Bloodlines

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The consensus of the overwhelming number of opinions is that the concept behind the six Final Destination movies is absurd – “death finds revenge on groups of people who cheated, violent death”.

Regardless, no one can argue about the high-quality special effects that show the horrific deaths of many people in these films. One cannot help but be impressed with the ideas and creativity behind the deaths and the chain reaction of events that cause these extremely violent scenes.

The sixth installment of the Final Destination franchise, “Final Destination: Bloodlines”, starts in a high-rise luxury restaurant tower where the overloaded top floor, where people are dancing, starts a series of events that cause the collapse of the building and the horrendous, violent death of everybody in the restaurant. This time around, the premonition that prevents tragedy is different, now recurring in the mind of the great-granddaughter of the woman who saved many lives some fifty years earlier in the high-rise tower.

The rest of this story follows the Final Destination paradigm where death finds revenge (in order) of all the people whose lives were saved, this time around killing all of the descendants of the people whose lives were saved fifty years earlier, because they were not supposed to be born – a new insane addition to the Final Destination story. It is all very stupid, but saved in each movie by the creativity and incredible special effects.

While this is a very good horror movie, the 92% Rotten Tomatoes concensus is a bit too high, with my rating 85% and a recommendation mostly for fans of the six Final Destination movies.