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Free Guy – Shawn Levy (2021)

Somewhere between The Matrix, Ready Player One and The Truman Show we follow Guy who has the same routine every morning. He lives in a perfect, yet exceedingly violent city where the bank where he works is robbed every day.

Along the line Guy learns that he is a character in a video game and in trying to impress a lady that he met, he becomes a better player than the actual players. Gaining a host of fans, he becomes the enemy of the author of the game.

I am not a big fan of Ryan Reynolds, but in general “Free Guy” is a somewhat amusing action spectacle with the typical Reynolds humour.

Deadpool & Wolverine – Shawn Levy (2024)

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Probably in the last week of it showing on the big screen, I saw this year’s summer hit. Not that it was very high up on my list after having watched a Deadpool and a Wolverine film, but it was the least uninteresting film playing when I had some time to kill.

With the typical (and fairly boring) adolescent humour, we follow Deadpool, who needs to find the dead Wolverine in order to save his timeline.

The film contains many references to other movies, ‘Hollywood culture’, the competition and some of these jokes are actually somewhat amusing. Also, as the story goes on, we run into other Marvel characters. Not the Avengers that Deadpool wants to join, but characters like Blade or Elektra.

The film contains a lot of bloody fighting scenes and bad language. I guess this is Marvel trying to appeal to the growing-up audience. Judging the rating at IMDb.com (7.8) this seems to work, but I do not really get much further than: somewhat amusing, here and there an alright joke.

The Adam Project – Shawn Levy (2022)

Despite being a Netflix original. Despite being somewhat ‘kiddy’. Besides being a comedy of sorts, “The Adam Project” was actually somewhat amusing. Or was it because I had not seen a film in a few weeks?

Adam from the title escapes from the 2050’ies to 2022. His aim was actually four years earlier. In 2022 he runs into his younger self and the two Adams are going to try to prevent time-travelling from being invented. Of course the future Adam has some adversaries that try to stop his efforts.

The film has a few original elements to the often filmed time travelling concept. The obligatory jokes are sometimes funny, sometimes less so, but overall not too annoying. There is some action and special effects making a film that is probably aimed at adolescents. Perhaps even a bit younger.

As said, the film is not that bad.