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When the killer family is home alone

You like John Wick killing everybody stand against him for the sake of his dog? You like the traps in Home Alone that most certainly would cause serious injuries but somehow didn't? Tell you what, Nobody got both your wishes covered.

At the start, we were introduced to this normal, random guy Hutch. He got two kids and a distanced wife, a legit job, always forgot to take out the trash on Tuesday. He may seem like a decent being, but we know something was off. One night, some thief broke into their house. When the situation got heated, he got every chance to handle the situation, but he didn't. The son thought he's a coward, and honestly we did to. Little did we know it was a gesture of mercy. On his way back from the mission to retrieve his daughter's bracelet, he encountered some low-level Russian mafia people, and something buried deep inside him was awaken, and the real story begins. He would destroyed the whole mafia with his expertise and some help from his former FBI father and spy brother, all in the name of saving his family.

The movie did a splendid job in terms of Hutch's daily life. We saw how the repetitive, boring, almost robotic life he lived and felt the tension building up. All that needs to light up the fire was some incident. When the chance found its way to Hutch, he exploded. The story telling is just good, nothing more than you want and nothing less. The fights wasn't always an one-sided battle, which gives a lot more authentic feelings about it. The twisted yet beautiful relationship between the father, the brother, and himself was beautifully demonstrated. One thing I really enjoyed in the film was how the characters lure their enemies toward the traps. Seeing how the bad guys fooled and walked to the dead zone all by themselves made me feel the good guys were genius. I found it very satisfying and the execution was perfect. Despite being so busy with what's going on, the film somehow found the time the tackle some of the issues we've seen in the media industry. Sure, the killing scene was brutal, and the plot was far from innovative. However, those elements worked together really well, like pieces of a puzzle.

In one sentence, this film is basically Home Alone: Violent Adult edition. I don't couldn't give you anything bad about the film. As far as I'm concerned, Nobody is perfect. I wonder why how on earth I didn't pick it up when it was released. This movie should definitely be on your watch list if you haven't seen it.

I mean the screen, not the plot.

After Justice league, it was only natural that every member in the league gets his own movie. For a long time, it was Ben Affleck who was going play the batman. However, tons of interations later, it was Robert Pattinson who ended up with the role. Robert who? No worries, I have the same question just like you. Robert Pattinson is actually that vampire from Twilight. Yes, you heard that right, that guy from Twilight. In recent years, batman has always been a superhero that tries to save the world. How will the Vampire boy batman save the world? Well, let's find out.

As it turns out, The batman is a detective movie rather than an action movie. Sure batman did fight against a lot of people in it, but that's not the point at all. In this film, batman just started his career for a few years, and his way of preventing crime is to spread fears among criminals. “I am Vengence.” He said. Every night when criminals walking down the ally, they'd think twice about it. And yet the crime rates weren't coming down at all. And out of a sudden, a certain riddler starting to kill high profile peoplein Gotham, leaving clues and riddles to batman, and so the story begins.

In this particular movie, you don't see crazy batman tech that was apparently miles ahead of time. If anthing it felt more like Indiana Jones in a cape. Sure it's still batman tech, but it's definitely not as fancy as the previous ones. The plot is basically black cold detective drama. Batman tried to solve the case, went through a lot of places, but everything he've been through didn't really contribute to th case. Riddler had him the whole time until the last part.

The most interesting part of the movie is probably how Bruce Wayne as a public figure was protrayed. It is very refreshing to see the playboy Wayne gone and the shy and collected nerd Wayne showed up. Cat woman, Gordan was fairly good cast as well. Although I'm not really interested in black detective movies, just seeing how differnt each batman is enough to motivate me went through the 3-hour movie.

In summary, The batman is not a good movie, it's just not a superhero movie, but not that stand out as a detective movie too. The plot was ok, the character design was good, but it was a freaking long film. If you are a batman, than you will no doubt love this film. However, if you're here to find some superhero stuff, than you're in the wrong place. I do not recommend it if you are not into depressed films. It's still a good film, just not acing any aspect of it.

Come on people, just get good.

They all say you need to be prepared. Walk into a battleground without proper tools and knowledge would get you killed. That being said, there is always chance that one can still fly through the obstacles unharmed. Earlier this month, I took the TOEFL iBT test and ended up scores above 100, 103 to be precise. To be honest, it wasn't something really extraordinary, but scores like this could be accepted by lots of schools out there. And the catch is due to my own laziness I did not put any effort to this test, yet I'm still here with the bragging rights. So, allow me to show you how I did it, to pass TOFEL with no preparation at all (which is not 100% true).

To be specific, I got 29 on both listening and reading; 22 on speaking and 23 for writing. For us Asians, we the test machines won't encounter much problem in reading. If you are keeping a habit of reading English material every now and then, you will be fine. The tricky part lies within the other three sections. If you have trouble in reading, that just mean your basics aren't good enough and you need to work on it before moving on to other sections. During the section, TOEFL is kind enough to provide you with highlights about the question, so you can basically read the question first and finish reading the corresponding paragraph and answer the question. After you read through the article, you should have a pretty good idea about the structure of it, and there for the structure arrangement test won't bother you at all. Some tutorials ask you not to finish the paragraph and focus on the keywords. While that might be an option, I still recommend finishing the whole article just to make sure you didn't miss anything.

For the listening section, that also relies on how often you've tried listen to conversations. If you listen to English conversations regularly, you shouldn’t encounter difficulties either. Just try your best not to be carried away too much and focus on the content, and you'll be able to smash this section.

Now, speaking and writing are the most challenging part of the test, at least to us Asians. From elementary school to high school, most of our training involves only the input of knowledge, meaning that we are trained to absorb and apply given knowledge. However, we almost never have experience on output, and that's why we struggle in speaking and writing. It takes time to format your words into speech and journals, and luckily for us, output is easy to practice, the most realistic way is to write about something about your life or something you are interested in. The point is that you need to get used to express yourself in foreign languages, to improve the speed of sentence formation, hence give you enough content for the actual delivery. That being said, a large portion of speaking still relies on how much you listen. It's simple math, once you father enough samples in regards of the pronunciation, you'll know how to mimic the mouth form and produce the desired sound and accent. During tests you're allowed to take notes and write down your outline, make sure to take advantage of that.

Enough about giving general preparation guides can cut to the real shit. How do I really beat TOEFL with basically no preparation? Well, it wasn't something worth mentioning to be honest. Because sports I'm interested in didn't have official broadcast in local language, I just simply turned to English channels. I listen to English podcasts at daily basis, read English light novels in my free time, and try to practice speaking with friends. Due to the nature of my job, I'm required to write in English from time to time, and not gonna lie it helps a lot. As you may already figure out at this point, the shortcut of getting good in TOEFL is to practice everything whenever you can. Nobody is good right away, even those crowned with the title of “genius” of “born natural.” Everything you tried would end up the same conclusion: Practice is king. Remember, “To start, you don't need to be good. But to be good, you have to start.”

The new Arceus game did what Pokemon Go should've been

If you didn't know, I didn't really love the remake of Pearl/dimond released in late 2021. However that game was made by ILCA, a company that didn't really make games before, rather then Game Freak, the studio that made the originals. If they were not making the remake, what were they up to recently? Well, they were busy making Pokemon Legends: Arceus.

Remember when the trailer of Pokemon GO promised us that we'd be caching pokemon like in real life, to see the pokemons minding their own business, and we approached with caution? Sadly, that was a total lie. When the trailer of Pokemon Legends: Arceus came out, it again promised to have some ecology elements, something shouted Pokemon: Breath of the wild or Pokemon: Monster Hunter. To be honest, I had my doubts on this as we've been fooled once. Luckily, it turned out to be everything we expected it to be and more.

In Pokemon Legends: Arceus, we play as a young child who went back time to Sinnoh region but hundred or thousand years earlier. Back then Team Galatic were an investigation corps that seemed to be the good guys. At that time, the world of human and pokemon just collided. Most of the humans were terrified that pokemons possess abilities far beyond what humans were capable of. Accompanied with the player's arrival, something strange happened and cause pokemons to lose control, with the possibility of endangering human lives. The player, unlike others, being the one that were used to the concept of humans and pokemons living together, was entrusted the task of comforting the alpha pokemons that went rouge. Beside all that, the player would explore the region and learn why he was summoned to this particular time, along with all the mystery around the unexplored world.

In the previous games, the core gameplay of Pokemon has always been grinding like hell in the term-based battles with other pokemons. When you first play it is was great, but at time goes by you started to feel bored generation after generation. In Pokemon Legends: Arceus, the core gameplay is still term-based, but the pace is significantly faster, with the battles usually end in 2 to 3 moves. This change makes the game really playable. In addition to that, the game introduced a brand new system of pokemon encounters. In the previous games, we basically run into pokemons; In Pokemon Legends: Arceus, we get to hide in the grass, throw pokeballs whenever we feel like. If you were discovered by pokemons, sometimes they run away sometimes they'll attack you. The whole new field of interaction with wild lives is the biggest innovation as far as I'm concerned. We finally get to really catch the pokemons in the wild, not just running into them and made them nearly dead for capture. There are a lot of details I thought is absolutely brilliant. For instance, you can control your character during the battle, even run away from a battle by leaving the scene. That's definitely not something I'd expect to have experienced in a pokemon game.

Another addition of the gameplay is the boss fights. For the main quest, players would enter battles with the lord-tier pokemon, and it was absolutely dark souls flashback because it requires you to dodge the attack from the pokemon and attack it back at the same time. That gives the game some challenging elements that the previous games never have. In the old days, you just grind like demons and you'll win everywhere. Now to fight against the bosses, you actually need to study how to beat them.

As for the storyline, I'd say it's still a pokemon game so don't keep your hopes up. That being say, the plot is better then the previous games and you can really feel it. You'll experience the highs and lows of as the main character, and tons of side quests really help making you immerse in the world much more.

Overall, I would suggest everyone to get Pokemon Legends: Arceus. This is a game well-made. The only drawback I could imagine is the graphics don't look as neat as it should be, especially when on the water and in the caves. Other than that, the game is just a masterpiece. It's no doubt a 10/10 for me, and I recommend to do everything in your power to get a copy.

Good to be back on Android

I have always been an android phone fan since most of the Apple products are not affordable for a student. From what I've heard, IOS systems are built to value the user experience and privacy, so the systems don't really have much to play with. That sounds really not right from a long-time android user that usually has plenty of rom options to flash when the warranty of devices are terminated or the device declared end-of-life. This reason combined with the crazy price tag prevent me from getting an Apple device. Few months ago, my old friend Pixel C finally went to retirement. As a result, I got myself an second-hand iPad Air 4. The experience was so impressing that when my mate asked if I would like to try out an iPhone, I said yes with no hesitation. For disclaimer, The iPhone I got is an iPhone 7 released way back in 2016, obviously it's not a match to the iPad or the android phone I'm using right now. That being said, I've been using a HTC M10 produced in 2015 prior to the new android phone, so I believe my argument still stands.

The first thing I got the phone is to, of course, update the phone. iPhones are pretty well-known for the extremely long-term maintenance. The first thing I noticed about the weird design choice lied here. After downloading the update files, the phone basically just stopped and do nothing, not installing the update right after the file check. That got me very confused as the battery still had around 70% but it won't start installing. It took a few more restart for the phone to install the update properly.

With the latest OS (iOS 15.2), I reset the phone and logged in my apple account. Next thing I noticed, the photos I took on my iPad were already on my iPhone. Some may think this is a brilliant feature, but as a privacy advocator I found the function repelling, as the phone never asked for my consent. I was surprised that such privacy concern happened on a device that were supposed to respect your privacy. Never mind that though, google wasn't that good in terms of privacy either. Let's move on.

One of the strongest advantages of Apple devices is the appstore ecosystem. I'm absolutely amazed by how good the apps on iPhone looked and performed. Some apps on both google play store and appstore almost felt like I was using a different app. Take Slide for Reddit for example, the android app looks very minimalist style, but the iOS app gives so much better user experience and a more stylish UI. Also, there are some apps only available on appstore, and most of them are optimized to the fullest and felt really good on the iPhone. However, same can't be said about the gesture control of the system. Having accustomed to the full screen gesture on Android, the gesture on iPhone felt too alien to understand and made no sense to me. It took me 4 days to find recent apps panel, and I could never understand why when swiping left or right it wouldn't close the app and the only way to get back to the main desktop is to swipe up. Some may argue that iOS system has good memory control hence such function is not needed. I say, however, it's not their decision to make. Nowadays Android phones don't really need to close apps to free up RAM, but the option to close the apps are still there within a simple swipe of your finger. I just don't comprehend why iPhone doesn't have this function. Maybe they do, but the system just somehow thought I'd know all the gestures already. In that case, why the gesture tutorial never once showed up during the device setup?

The other thing iPhones are praised for is the camera. Not gonna lie, the model I got is way too old to compare with modern devices, and I didn't get much improvement comparing to my M10. The app felt very intuitive to use though.

The battery life of the iPhone is surprisingly good and bad. The battery health was stated 99%. Seemed healthy enough. When in idle, the battery was insanely good, dropping only few percent in a day. But there was another different story when the phone was in use, draining like water coming out from the faucet. The phone wouldn't last a day for light daily usage. Such observation was really alarming as my one-year-older M10 could easily pass the one-day mark in daily use. This gave me an epiphany why Apple developed wireless charging. If the battery can't last, just make it easier to charge. That way you wouldn't even notice it.

In the end, it's fair to say that I'm not satisfied with my time on iPhone. That being said, I can see why people like iPhone so much. Generally, it's simple to use, doesn't give you much to temper with, and very thoughtful in a way. It does the job well. But on that price tag, I can't really recommend people to switch to an iPhone unless you are already one foot in the Apple ecosystem. An iPhone proves its worth the most when you also have an iMac or Macbook as your daily drive. If you are not a Mac user, I'd suggest you to get an Android phone with tons of customized features and cool concepts to play with.

From now on I shall cherish every pokemon I caught (maybe).

Pokemon has been a long running series that accompany me throughout my childhood. Back in elementary school, I remembered playing Pokemon Red, using my level-100 Dragonite crushing the Elite Four over and over again until the battery of the cartridge died and I lost all my data and had to do everything all over again and rage quit. After getting older, I remembered playing Pokemon Emerald, Using only Swampert and Rayquaza absolutely destroyed the Elite Four. But whatever I did I can not beat Benny my best friend for once. After that I've played some Dimond and Black. When 3DS came out I was preparing for the college entrance test so completely missed out. However a few years later I did pick up a device and finished Pokemon Ultra Sun. When I started working, I could finally get my hands on a brand-new Switch and played Pokemon Shield. When the new Brilliant Dimond/Shining Pearl started shipping, I of course got a copy without hesitation. That being said, in the past my winning strategy has been grinding until my pokemons reach a ridiculous level and smash my way through. The process has become more and more repetitive and I wanted to try out something new. I've decided this time I'd play the game in Nuzlocke style.

If you are not familiar with the concept of Nuzlocke, here's the short version. You can only catch the first pokemon you encountered when entering a new route. In addition, you have to nickname all pokemon you caught. By doing this, you give your pokemon more care and will get more intimate towards them. When I pokemon faint, treat it like it's dead. You either put it into the PC or release the pokemon directly. These are the two main rules. Other then that, I made myself not to use potions during a fight (berries are allowed), and I have to turn off the switch pokemon option. The final rule I committed is not to look up the guides. With the rules set, I started my Pokemon Shining Pearl Journey.

Nothing much to say about the first two gyms, I absolutely destroyed them with my Poki the Prinplup and the Rock N seed the Wormadam. The road to the third gym, however, is a quite frustrating one. During my way to the next city, I got cocky and didn’t restore my team’s health as I was approaching the city in sight. Out of a sudden two trainers jump out of nowhere and challenge me into a fight. I lost WaketheFup the Luxio, the second pokemon joined my team and has been there for me the whole time. This was a very serious one and I took the hit hard. In this very city I unlocked the underground area, so it’s natural for me to explore and seek new partnerships and go after the third gym leader. Unfortunately, most of the new pokemon caught at the underground were killed on the way, some even didn’t get to its first move. One of them is High-protein the Beautifly. I like this one a lot and truly believed that it can walk through a lot more hells with me. During the gym battle, High-protein was one-shotted by a Machoke using Rock Tomb from full health. I was genuinely heart-broken and has since then become numb toward losses. Pretty sure it was not a good sign but damn I wanted to see it through.

The underground world is definitely all the good, the bad, and the ugly happened. I've lost and met a lot of partners here. At times I was trying to level up but some random pokemon just somehow killed it so I'll have to do things over and over again. New pokemons came and gone, I finally arrive the tower of champions and was determined to challenge the Elite Four. But before that, my Nemesis Benny bumped into me for the one last time in this game and killed my vital team member Ghost the Haunter. I had to added another pokemon that absolutely wasn't ready for the upcoming brutal battles. The Elite Four is really terrifying to compete with a pretty broken team in terms of balance. Not looking up the team of the Elite Four, I walked in the rooms as if I'm blind. The most recent addition Graveler carried us to the second Elite but was killed during the fight. Fortunately, there were no casualties after that, until I found my way in front of the champion.

One feature the game has implemented since Sun/Moon is that if you are close enough to your pokemon, it will at times cure itself from the negative effects, doing more critical hits, but most importantly survive from a killer move. The team I came up with challenging the league was not ideal at all. Although I had two pokemons that were few levels higher, the rest of the team are pretty much leveled with that of champion's. To fight her, I've come up with some strategies but the crucial point is that my attack wasn't strong enough while the champ can easily took a quarter of my pokemon's HP. At last, the whole epic battle went down to a dogfight between my Poki the Empoleon and the Garchomp. The Garchomp knew earthquake and had killed most of my team with the move. Poki has survived one shot but definitely won't be able to hold on for another. On the other hand, the Garchomp had less than a half of HP. I was certain one more surf would end it. It was the opponent's turn. It was no surprise that the Garchomp used earthquake. Just when I though I lost my challenge, Poki stayed alive with 1 remaining HP because it didn't want to have me worried! Poki then used surf and sent Garchomp down to the grave, and I became the champion.

To be honest, the Nuzulocke playthrough is quite painful because you at first did not want to invest to these pokemons, but after a while you put some trust and care in them. That's why when they died it hurt so much. I also cautiously prevent over-grinding to make the game difficult enough to play, and overall I'd say it's a unique experience that I've never explored before. I will try this again on the upcoming new game Pokemon Legends: Arceus if it allows. As for the game experience itself, how good is the remake? Well, there's another story.

In general, I will say the remake is very true to the original, perhaps too much. There are reports that the bugs of the original games was ported to the remake. In addition, the game pretty much refreshed the graphics, adding new types in, tiny stuff here and there, but didn't really do something new about the game. I remember the in the Sapphire remake on 3DS the champ reached out to us several times and we could ride on the back of Latios. I am aware the the format of Pokemon contest has been changed, but let's be honest a lot of people won't even play that game mode. One pro for me is that back when I was young the games were only availabe in Japanese and I basically had to play the game without knowing the context and plot. Now the game had included my native language so I could properly enjoyed the plot and dialogue more,, but that might not be the case to other people.

In summary, is Brilliant Dimond/Shining Pearl good? It's alright. Plenty of innovations? Nah. If compared to the previous two Pokemon games it's no doubt the worst one, but that doesn't mean you want to ignore it. If you've been a fanboy then get one already, but if you are new to the series I will suggest you to play the other two games first. If you only have limited budget for entertainment then I suggest you to wait for Arceus.

The new ghost buster is a thousand better than the previous one

Disclaimer: This review is 100% pure subject thoughts and contains spoilers, if you haven't watched the movie proceed with caution

Even for people like us born in the 90s, ghost buster is some old movies that at times appear in some strange old movie channels that nobody watches (at least in my country). Sure we know it's about catching ghosts and we know the song, but that's pretty much it. Nothing less and nothing more. When the new movie came out with Thor and the girls, yeah the graphic looked fantastic, but the movie itself doesn't seem to convey anything. That's why when Ghost busters: Afterlife comes out, I didn't even bother to go to the theatre. However, since the movie is on streaming platform, I figured why not and played it. As it turned out, the decision was a damn good one.

Although I didn't know the old trilogy, you can't really escape gossips of the Internet and people. As a result, I already knew the film is something sort of a continuation of the old ones. In Ghost busters: Afterlife, the main character is the granddaughter of one of the ghostbusters. Her family moved to the old farm grandfather owned and discovered the secrete of her grandfather, while the evil within the dark was approaching real fast.

The most memorable thing about the movie is the dialogue. The dynamic of the characters were really well conveyed through their interaction, and their conversations were generally fun. I personally love the part when the protagonist tried to go to school, the mother said “Don't be yourself.” When later the mother was going out on a date, the daughter replied “Don't be yourself.” It was the brilliant lines that got me through the movie. From the all-female line-up movie, I thought the movie was an adventure filled with action and drama. Contrary to my expectation, the film was actually quite heavy, touching on a few serious subject and if I may so, did it quite alright. Obviously you won't walk out of the theater with heavy heart, but it sure would give you some additional thoughts on things. Elements of previous films of course can be seen in this movie, such and the proton guns and the famous car. Personally I love the proton gun effect.

All in all, Ghost busters: Afterlife is a decent film that you should watch. You can feel the movie was made of passion and love. The plot is good, the characters are fun. You could not have asked for more.

The origin of the King's man is surprisingly good

Disclaimer: This review is 100% pure subject thoughts and contains spoilers, if you haven't watched the movie proceed with caution

There are many movies come at the end of the year. Some forgettable, some not so good, some alright, and some was just that good. Fortunately, The King's Man falls into the final category. You want fight scene, you got it. you want epic scene, you got it. You want emotional scene, you got it. This movie somehow got it all and did not screw up. That's really something.

I have to admit I did not expect The King's Man to be good. The first film was fun but not great. The second film was fun but not great as well. These two movies adapted very heavy comic book style demonstration, and to be honest it works. I walked into the theater with the expectation of the same comic book style movie, but what I get isn't quite I was expecting.

You see, this movie is nothing like the first two movies. This is about the origin of Kingsman, dated way back to World War I. The premise along isn't the same. This movie is rather serious, despite its nature being a action comedy. The story followed Duke Oxford and his son Conrad on a quest to save the world by fighting against a secret evil organization. The first part of the movie centered mostly on Conrad the son, described his struggle of being a son and doing what he wanted to do. When you started to believe Conrad is the main character, Boom and Conrad was killed by a nobody. Then the movie centered back to the Duke and his team. It's very refreshing in a way how the movie deceived you and I was totally in shot because I didn't think Conrad will be gone anytime soon. The grieving father later decided to finish what he and his son started, to save the world.

There were plenty of scenes echoed back to the previous to films, such as how the shoes' blades came to be and the famous quote Manners Maketh Man. Although it's a more “traditional film”, the movie still stands out in its genre. Surprisingly and unfortunately this film did not have a fight scene as memorable as the other two films. That being said, the movie as a whole is pretty good, especially when you're coming from a certain Matrix movie.

To summarized, I really like this movie and recommend everyone to watch it. The movie feels beautiful in big screen and should be decent in TV screen as well. Even if you don't know a thing about the previous movies, this will still be an enjoyable experience.

Do not watch The Matrix Resurrections. Just don't.

Disclaimer 1: This review spoils the plot, if you haven’t watched the movie proceed with caution. Disclaimer 2: This review is purely my own subjective thoughts, my impression about what I've watched.

No one has foreseen it. Nobody thought this would happened. And yet here we are, looking at the poster of the new Matrix movie. Having watched the trilogy, I won't say I understand what The Matrix is all about, but I know I love them for a few things: The fighting scene like no other, The fighting scene like no other, and The fighting scene like no other. Yes I'm just that dumb to never understand the lord behind the movies and have too much pride to look it up. The movies did ask questions I'm not comfortable to face and some I still have no answer to, but to be frankly I really don't pay attention about the plot of The Matrix at all. To be fair, when I first watched I was too young for this. When I reviewed the films when I'm older, there're just too many films out there copying the ideas that I just can't appreciate them anymore. As a result, all I remembered about The Matrix is pretty much slow motion bullet time.

First part of the film was fairly entertaining. We learned that The Matrix is just games develop by Thomas Anderson, also known as Neo, with characters based on himself and his surroundings. Still, somehow Thomas felt that he actually lived the life of the game, and it turned out he did. The plot took place at decades after the final movie, Neo sort of saved the world and humanity started to work with machines to create a better place. Neo and Trinity were revived and put in another Matrix. The Analyst, the main villain, exploit the chemistry between them to generate more usable power. The whole story started with a crew from Io, the new Zion, accidentally located Neo and brought him back to the real world. During the extraction Neo saw Trinity in another pod, so it goes without saying that the quest of Neo this time was to bring his love back. Story sounds, fun enough, but that's where the good part ended.

Seeing the movie trolled the trilogy is fun, but the rest is just dumpster fire. In case you didn't know, there's a new Morpheus which was created by Neo as a program in the simulation. Spoiler, he's not great. In fact, every characters seems to exist because Neo has become weaker so he couldn't do things along. Most characters are already a generation behind Neo, and none of them seems to be Neo's ally. It feels more like Neo and his sidelick. This is not to say the new characters are bad, the problem is that there was too much space between them that the chemistry did not feel right. Whenever they talk it just felt like they're talking to an idol, rather than a human. That really bugged me.

In the end Trinity was saved after killing her fake husband Chad and fighting The Analyst and the Matrix. One last time Neo and Trinity faced a serious dilemma. This time instead of Neo, it is Trinity that seems to become The One and saved the day with her superpowers. That's a twist but not really sure how to interpret it. The plot overall feels cliche and predictable, nothing incredibly refreshing

All in all, I don't recommend watching The Matrix Resurrections if you are fan of the trilogy because of the following reasons: 1. The fight scenes are not good at all. 2. Although there are some funny moment, majority of the movie is fairly boring 3. The interactions between the characters are awkward as hell If you don't know much about the trilogy and want to know more about them, then yeah sure watch the movie and I'm certain it'll make you want to watch the trilogy. But by all means this is not a good movie, even when looking at it independently it's not that great.

No way home is awesome, if you loved the other two iterations

Disclaimer: This review spoils the plot, if you haven’t watched the movie proceed with caution.

Your friendly neighborhood spiderman has once again appeared on big screen! At first, I was so not going to go to the theater for another spiderman movies, but the freezing weekend just left me nowhere to go, so I found myself in the theater once again. In Spiderman: No way home, Peter was screwed by the villain he fought, and his identity was revealed, in a bad way. Now the entire world hated sipderman and the young Peter Parker brought Dr. Strange onboard to solve his problems, only to create a bigger one. The following content spoils the plot. This is your final warning. Still here? Good, let’s carry on.

This time, Peter asked Strange to cast a magic spell so everyone will forget spider-man. However, as always everything went wrong and villains from other dimensions, the previous two spider-man universe, all gathered in this dimension. Knowing that they’ll be dead if they returned to their original universe, Peter tried to fix all of them before sending them back, but not everyone agreed with him. Tragic things happened, and people died. I do not believe the storyline makes much sense, as it again talks about timeline stuff but this time way too much less that I’m not convinced that once the bad guys were back to their world they’ll live. Seemed to me that every villain remembered they were going to kill spider-man but not the outcome, therefore nobody truly knows whether they’ve killed spider-man. But honestly, I couldn’t care less about them because what happened next.

After the villains went rouge, Mei died after giving that speech we’re all so familiar about. And then it turned out spider-men from other universe have come along as well. From that point, this movie became a love letter to the spider-man movies fans. Watching three spider-men interacted with each other is just so cute and warm. They confess, they compare, and they have fun together. In this movie we were given a glimpse of the other two spider-men’s lives and knowing that they’re still alive and well means the world to me. However, I’m not sure if the experience would be as good if one only knew the spider-man played by Tom Holland. There are lots of scenes you’ll need to watch the previous movies to understand. For example, you’ll never know why Peter 3 burst into tears after he saved MJ from falling; when you heard Aunt Mei saying those words, you already knew things were not going to end well. It is the sider-men that turn a movie watchable, if it’s only Tom I believe it’d be just another spider-man movie.

All in all, Spider-man: No way home is a good movie, maybe the greatest if you knew a lot about the other two versions of spider-man. The storyline is alright, but the main selling point is definitely the conversation between the spider-men. Fight scene-wise just normal stuff you’d expect from a spider-man movie. Not that recommend to watch on the big screen, but do go if you are a spider-man fanboy.