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The Mummy (2017)
Superb Visual Effects and First Rate Cinematography Can't Save This!
Some say this movie is "fun" and wonderful... but despite some truly wonderful visual and special effects, stunt work, and cinematography, the flat story and wooden acting kills it on every level. Most of the dialog is predictable and there is no resolution or point to the story at all. This film also exhibits some of the worst pacing I've ever seen in a major studio release... no crescendo, emotional build or celebrating the "good guy." By the ending credits, all I could do was wonder why I bothered watching it. A total waste of time.
The Wonderful Country (1959)
Uneven Western
The story is clever, the production value is all there, and the acting talent is present... but this film is poorly directed with a distracting and overblown music score. There are clear merits to this film and Mitchum gives his all to make his character solid ... but because of the weak direction, his Mexican accent is almost flawless in some scenes, but nonexistent in others. This goes back and forth for the duration of the film. Some of the Mexcian accents spoken by some actors are not only poorly executed, with dialogue that is stereotypical, as well. This distracts greatly from the story and production values here.
The overblown soundtrack is about as bad as it gets. It makes me think Alex North was dying for attention and wanted his music to be heard over the action. The music has little to do with the mood of what is happening on screen. Music should enhance the drama... here the music fights for attention. Some of the worst arrangements I've heard. At times the music sounds festive and celebratory in scenes which are supposed to be ominous and frightening. Quite odd and a bit irritating. A remake should be considered because the story is worth telling.... but not this way.