urbanracal Reviews

GomBurZa (2023)

Decent production but ...

[6/10 · 14 April 2024]

I liked the sets and production pieces, they did not look sloppy. However, since half the show's dialogue was in Spanish, they should have invested time and money in an accent coach. It was rather disappointing to hear Caucasian-looking Spaniard officials speaking with Taglish prosody, syntax, and grammar. Sure, most of them did pull off a modicum of the European Spanish "lisp", but the forced ceceo was all the more phony- and slapdash-sounding amidst all the Taglish glottal stops, the nasal tones, the r/rr merging, the stress on the wrong syllables (Burgós), the hard b, d, p, the butchered d (misericordjha)...

The Contractor (2022)

Ordinary and forgettable

[5/10 · 4 April 2022]

Ordinary and forgettable. You can't even hear the dialog well because there's something wrong with the mixing. Plus the audio is mono most of the time.

The Flight Attendant (2020–2022)

Crazy

[6/10 · 11 August 2021]

Cuoco plays the intensely annoying, shrill, toxic, Cassie Bowden so well.

5.

Sin Senos Sí Hay Paraíso (2016–2018)

Cheesy and melodramatic

[6/10 · 11 May 2021]

Overacting, cheesiness, etc. I get that it's the genre, but 90 episodes per season of it is way, way too much. Ya a partir del episodio 10 me produjo bastante empacho.

Nomadland (2020)

Austere

[8/10 · 1 March 2021]

Not my type of flick, no action, violence, intrigue, but I liked it a lot. Austere beauty.

Fargo (2014–2024)

Season 4 tanks it

[6/10 · 4 February 2021]

I cannot pinpoint why, but Season 4 failed to enthrall me.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Could, should, have been much better

[7/10 · 25 January 2021]

Could, should, have been much better, given the story and the cast.

U Turn (I) (2020)

Annoying

[2/10 · 20 December 2020]

So annoying, it doesn't even have that "it's so bad that it's fun" appeal. Total trash! I don't understand what draw Kim Chiu and Tony Labrusca could have on Filipinos.

Tenet (2020)

Manage your expectations

[7/10 · 6 December 2020]

I expected much more, this probably being the most anticipated pandemic release.

Raised by Wolves: The Beginning (2020) Season 1, Episode 10

Unsee this episode

[1/10 · 3 October 2020]

Can I please unsee this trashy cheap chavvy finale.

Primer (2004)

Waste of time

[2/10 · 14 August 2020]

Waste of time; the premise and plot would be better in a scifi novel.