Most of this was intriguing! Make no mistake, it's a Spielberg movie, it looks good, it moves good. If anything, maybe I got too intrigued by it... it just didn't stick the landing at all for me.

Threatens us with a good time (true idiosyncratic abstraction from the father of the American Blockbuster), but goes back on it pretty hard. It feels like a tease, a jaunt, and I could discern no greater purpose in it that actually landed for…

Absolutely ridiculous movie, pretty enjoyable though also definitely underbaked for its length. Geena Davis absolutely owns, and I'm not exactly sure what bugged me about her narrative last time; the movie is at its best when she's melding her disparate personas like a schlocky dumb ass-kicking version of The OA: Chapter II.

Schlocky dumb ass-kicking is what one expects from Renny Harlin, and he delivers no more and no less here. Normally I'd say Shane Black is a little too…

6/8/26 note: I don't know how or why this review got so popular, or why more people are always discovering it. I don't think this is even in my top 500 best pieces of writing, and frankly it's been frustrating to see it get so much attention. I roll my eyes a little whenever I remember that it's a permanent fixture of my page, as I don't love the first impression that it gives.

I always keep the content of…