The gates of hell are open night and day

This doesn't have the feeling of this first one even if it tries to recycle a lot. Gladiator II's computer-generated humbug kills the pleasure and entertainment and, quite frankly, Paul Mescal in the leading role nowhere near replaces Russell Crowe's charisma. The film is an overstuffed blockbuster, but lacks depth.

Decaying vestige

Horrendous piece of garbage. It's sad really that in this day and age this sort of thing is even being released at all. The movie is basically filmed in the back of a truck. It's cheap and talentless insult to all the other so called confined space movies.

Tomorrow is promised to no one

The cast in Clint Eastwood's Absolute Power - Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, E.G. Marshall, Dennis Haysbert, Richard Jenkins, Scott Glenn - is tough class. Their presence is impressive, downright dazzling. And the story of the President of the United States involved in a ghastly killing, and a burglar witnessing it, is brilliant. If they had paid more attention to the small details and cleaned up the mistakes, the film would be one of the greatest thrillers.

The moment the laughter died

Torture. There's not much to like in Todd Phillips's Joker: Folie à Deux. It's an awfully boring affair. Riding on the coat tails of Joker (2019), they probably thought they could pull off anything, stupid musical bits included, and people would suck it up.

Just another man hunting for a trophy

Essentially Kraven the Hunter is a ridiculous action hero movie. The character Kraven is a fighter of animal justice whose superpowers are courtesy of a some mysterious elixir. He's a gung-ho kind of guy and mercilessly wipes out the people in the poaching business. The movie is a different kind of absurdity with inconsistencies and plotholes, but kind of liked it all the same. Wacky shit.