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Absolute Power (1997)
Total waste of time
One of the worst movies I ever saw. Makes no sense. Clint should be ashamed of himself for foisting this on the public. Some other reviewers have itemized a few of the plot holes, and I validate everything they said. No need to repeat the details.
The Black Tulip (2010)
Just another ego trip.
I should have heeded my own red-flag warning and not wasted my time on this movie. What's the red flag? The star of the movie is also the writer and the director. The end result of such a troika is usually little more than blatant ego gratification, and this movie doesn't fail to fulfill that goal.
In addition to the glorification of the main character, seemingly unrelated characters and scenes pop in and out, with little or no background or transition. Maybe it all would have been united into a cohesive story by the time it painfully dragged itself to a conclusion, but I shut it down after 90 minutes and never had the benefit of whatever that conclusion might have been. And couldn't care less, BTW.
It's unfortunate that IMDb doesn't have a way to require reviewers to disclose their financial association with the film that they are reviewing. If such disclosures were possible, it's likely that many 10-star reviewers would be flagged as shills. And that includes the 10-star reviewers of The Black Tulip.
Bacalaureat (2016)
Waste of time
Total waste of my time. Kept waiting for something (anything!!) to happen. It just meanders along leaving plot holes, unexplained events, and unresolved issues in its wake. Starts nowhere, does nothing, ends nowhere.
The high ratings of other reviewers must have been written by the artsy/fartsy intellectual types who swoon in rapturous joy as they ascribe significance to pretentiousness.